How often you need to review each level always comes back to the central question “how often do I need to review X in order to keep it off my mind?” The higher altitudes are simply the higher and broader outcomes you want to define about your life. Always think like a soccer player - “where’s are the goal posts?” and “What’s my next play?” In a sense, there’s only a single operational principle in GTD - the duality of defining outcomes and actions. That said, I wish OF paid more attention to the visual aspect and the iOS apps nearly as good as the MacOS one.There aren’t really “tasks” at the higher levels… but following down the chain of altitudes from 50k translates down into projects and next actions. OF for iPad has a dedicated column for the inspector. Things for iPad is a larger version of the iPhone app. With OmniFocus I can defer a repeating task to 8 PM and I will be blissfully unaware until it’s the time to do it. With Things, I have to see these tasks adding up to my to-do list the entire day, and it stresses me out to see a long list that I can’t shorten even if I wanted earlier in the day. I have some tasks I usually do right before going to bed. Being able to defer tasks to a specific time.Custom perspectives! and customization overall.True, you can also do headings or visually organize stuff but it ends up being super cluttered. With things you can just go 3 levels deep (areas, projects, tasks, subtasks). Another thing I missed while I was using Things is a slightly more complex project structure. You cannot defer that task today-instead, you have to wait until tomorrow to be able to cancel/postpone it and this is just ridiculous. Imagine you have a repeating work-related task and tomorrow you go on vacation. You simply can’t interact with future repeating tasks. One of the most frustrating aspects of Things is how it deals with repeating tasks. Being able to organize repeating tasks ahead.As a designer, this makes super hard to use it, but the main reasons I’m coming back are: Generally, OF struggles a lot with aesthetics, animations, contrast and accessibility in terms of the visuals. OF3 is just outdated, but OF4 is not much better either. It’s also beautiful and this is obviously subjective, but it’s undeniable that they pay way more attention to the UI design (beautifully designed icons, animations, color palette, the usage of white space…). It’s actually one of the reasons why I left and moved to Things. One of the comments I see repeatedly (and I subscribe it) is that the way it’s designed, it’s easy to spend more time playing around with it than actually doing the stuff you have to get done. I can totally see how OF is not well suited for ADHD. I keep thinking of going back, but the price tag keeps me from trying it again. I used Things back in the v1 days, pre OF. I miss the native architecture in OF, and some of scripting that affords, but not enough to lose that natural language processing during capture.Īt any rate, OF4 is solid. I’ve tried using Drafts as an inbox, but Drafts>OF just seem like extra steps that other apps do today. I’ve tried leaving the sorting to a processing time, but that just doesn’t work for me. “Email BI about report tomorrow #workProject and it can fill in due, project, labels. So with Todoist/Taskpaper I write a single line of text like: I’m ADHD and switching contexts to capture a task appropriately and pay attention to which data goes in which field (project, due, start etc) really takes me out of whatever it is I’m doing. I’m used to Taskpaper annotation and apps like TickTick and Todoist take that same style and parse it into fields for me. I’m mostly annoyed with how much attention I have to pay during capturing tasks in OF. I remember a few crashes but no data loss. I did not sync it with a Mac app at the time, just between iPad and iPhone (main). I ran OF4 as my mine OF for 1-2 months a while ago and it was fairly stable. Curious what is bringing you back? I need a breath of fresh air and OF4 is not it.
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