![]() These are usually grouped within single action lists which is just a container for single tasks. Recurring, maintenance type actions (BAU, run your life), can probably be also organized and timed to pop up when due with no tags or perspectives appended. I guess that’s a balance act each of us have to do personally.Ĭhecklists and templates are separate, self contained elements, and don’t need further metadata besides a clear title to find them. It is a common criticism to OF that you need to devote way too much time to fiddling with all these perks instead of doing the real tasks. I would agree that OF has so many features it is easy to get lost in the woods, or spend too much time searching for the ‘right’ tags and perspectives for my needs. ![]() context/Tag list, project list, forecast view) I interpret your position like you have defaulted to using only the built in tags and perspectives which come in the OF Box (i.e. That’s a bold move and I agree the simpler the better, if it meets your needs. I can’t imagine being without my custom perspectives, but if you can, you probably don’t need them, and Omnifocus will still be an excellent help for conveniently getting things done. Voilà – the highlighting in the standard Flagged perspective disappears, and the tasks in my custom perspective are now possible to reorder manually by dragging. If they are too many to handle immediately, I simply drag them downwards to the ”Flagtag” part and remove the flag. The tasks that are flagged are shown at the top, easy to take care of. The perspective shows flagged tasks and tasks with a tag ”Flagtag”. A custom Flagged perspective recently solved the problem. But with too many unrelated tasks continuously appearing, the Flagged perspective tend to be overpopulated, resulting in too many tasks to handle without the possibility to manually reorder them and the highlighting always there, losing its meaning. I like flagging new, urgent tasks as a quick way to keep them in sight, with the highlighted tab of the standard Flagged perspective indicating that there are tasks there not to be forgotten. Tags for me is primarily a way to organize tasks in my custom perspectives and to make manual reordering of tasks possible there. They are not complicating anything for me, instead they are making things more simple and let me finetune Omnifocus for my actual situation and personal needs. ![]() After nine years with Omnifocus, I still keep getting more thankful for the custom perspectives. What do you think about my new approach? I could never be friends with tags and perspectives – they are too complicated for me and never have been helpful to do my tasks. even if I come to the app after a long time, everything makes sense and is all clear. So now basically Omnfocus is kind of like an todolist-outliner for me. Im aksing myself why I didnt come up with this idea more early. If I feel like in the process of editing that there have to be changes being done in the template I will just switch to it via the tab navigation. I will just have a Template project inside OF and I will just duplicate it and and add it to the dedicated journey project. Today I finally decided to stop using Tags and Perspectives. I habe been using OF Pro for around 5 years now.
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