[bashosfrog]

Curt - no, I don't intend to pick dropped items up again as part of the same project. But in my line of work, the people I talk to as part of one assignment may become the basis for another assignment in the future. In that case, I go back and review who I interviewed, and also who I didn't interview. In that sense, old task lists serve as a permanent aide-mémoire.

Very few of my tasks are of the "clean desk" variety, the sort that can be chucked out after they are crossed off. They contain contact details, a few notes on when I called, left messages, promises to call back, websites and other cruft. I should be using a CRM, perhaps, but I'm not in sales and find CRMs to be clunky and full of features I don't need.

OF is just right - except in its insistence that it knows what I don't want to see.