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Originally Posted by dhm2006
Most of my folders, however, are areas of responsibility (or roles or goals or whatever terminology that applies to that type of organization), such as "Household."
I use several singleton lists there. One is "Purchases." In purchases, I have an action called "Grocery List" where I note items I need in the note field (not the routine items like milk and bread, but items I won't necessarily think of when I am at the grocery store). It is just a placeholder, not really an action, because I never mark it complete. I just delete the items I bought from the note.
Is that GTD? I think so. I need a way to get the items to be purchased at the grocery store off my mind until I am at the grocery store. Do I want the grocery list at the root level with my folders? No. Do I want it at the top level inside the Household folder? Not particularly.
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I think I'm starting to get a better understanding of the objections to treating single actions and projects as one-in-the-same. The issue as I understand it it that there are *actions* and there are *lists*, and many are using OmniFocus to manage both, while I use a separate application to manage my lists.
I don't think the two ideas are incompatible with each other, we just need to redefine a few things.
What if "single actions" and projects were treated the same (listed in the library/projects/whatever-it-gets-called list), and then there was a "Lists" collection, at the same level as Inbox and Library, that contained checkbox items, as done in OmniFocus? I could see, e.g.
Inbox
- all my inbox items
Library
- Single Action
- Single Action
- Project (Multiple actions)
- Project (Multiple actions)
- Single Action
Lists
- Grocery List
- Movies to See
- Books to Read
Important in this suggestion would be the ability to open and close all of the top level items, so I can, e.g., see only the items below my Lists.
Of course, all folder organization that works under Library should work under Lists, so I can organize my lists as I see fit.
I threw together a mockup in OmniOutliner (using Omni's own icons; I hope that's OK!). I wonder if this works for folks?