Recently Lifehacker ran a slew of spring cleaning articles, a number of which I listened to and have certainly improved my day-to-day workflow. One suggestion I've been sitting on is their discussion of Inbox Bankruptcy. Here's the article:
http://lifehacker.com/5512791/declar...-lot-of-stress
The short of it is whenever something is bogging you down, just cut it off and start over. For example, with e-mail, just archive everything and start over, and tell the folks you've been "meaning to" e-mail that everything is gone, and now you're back to square one. I don't need anything like this in e-mail, but I definitely need to rework my Omnifocus workflow.
For me, the idea of starting over seems quite appealing. I've tried to reorganize my projects and actions, and I've gone through to delete superfluous or "never gonna happen" actions. While things seemed a bit cleaner, they are still altogether disorganized. So yeah, I almost feel as though I should start from scratch with a completely new OF database.
My concern is basically just coming to hitting that delete button. I'm worried maybe I'm missing something maybe I'll be losing some vital task or context or whatever.
Any suggestions for a guilt-free way of starting over?