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Originally Posted by whpalmer4
You've already organized them by priority. You flagged the ones you want to do today. Those are the top priority, and the rest are not. Flagging or otherwise marking as top priority more tasks than you will complete is just a path to frustration and inefficiency. If you complete all of your selected tasks, pat yourself on the back and go get another batch. Compare the feeling with a list of high priority tasks that you can never quite complete.
If you are trying to maintain a prioritized list of all of your work in OmniFocus, you're really attempting to bash a squarish peg into a round hole. It isn't intended to give you such fine-grained prioritization, and part of the reason why is that it was inspired by a method that rejects making such prioritized to do lists in advance. It is happy to allow you to designate an overall project priority; when all else is equal, the actions in the projects nearest the top of the sidebar are shown before the actions in projects closer to the bottom.
If you have enough of an insistence that you must organize your work in advance, just put start times on the actions so they only become available in the desired order. Typing "+1h" or "1h" in the start date field in the inspector gets you a start date 1 hour in the future.
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Thank you whpalmer4. I don't have more than 10 items in my flagged ("Today") perspective. I just want the list to make sense to me when I scan my list over the course of my work day (I have already reviewed and selected what I am going to work on - this is just my active, "Today" list). Perhaps it's my ADD, but I find it very distracting when my active, working list is not organized into a logical order. Honestly, I find myself reading the list multiple times as I try to mentally put it into the right order (or make one action a child of another) - instead of once at the beginning of the day.
My work is very fluid and does not require lots of due & start dates - I just need a system that helps me to divide and conquer my tasks logically. If I enter arbitrary start dates, it becomes very inefficient as it really doesn't help me to quickly see what priority I have assigned to something (it actually has the opposite effect. When I keep moving a start date forward I start ignoring that project because I am constantly throwing it arbitrarily into the future (I don't want to drop the project, but at that moment, other more pressing issues have arisen).