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You get everything in the same place unless you take steps to carve it up. For most people, there's some value in doing so, because your action lists can get pretty intimidating otherwise, and it's easier to see what you might need to do at business #1 if you don't have all of the tasks that need to be done for businesses #2 and #3 and your kid's science fair project and getting the extra bedroom built and ...

OmniOutliner is a great tool, and you might find plenty of other uses for it. I know that Curt already had his own home-brewed OmniOutliner GTD system when OmniFocus arrived, so OmniOutliner was an obvious choice for keeping track of his longer-term goals. If keeping your longer-term goals in Microsoft Word is comfortable for you, do it! It is easy to drag text from another program into OmniFocus. That you plan your goals and review your efforts probably matters much more than which tool you use to edit your 5 year plan. You could certainly keep your horizons of focus matters in a suitably named folder in OmniFocus and put the projects on hold so they aren't cluttering up your everyday lists.