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Originally Posted by Salient
Interesting. I bet if OF ran a survey, they would find most customers only use one OF product at a time. Why not design for the majority? Even if a sort were required each time an OF variant were opened, how different could it be from that little database optimization dance OF iPhone already does? Add a few milliseconds? Design for the user, not the designer, and check your assumptions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-centered_design |
I think you misunderstood what I was saying. The problem is not that it is going to take a little computational effort to rearrange the ordering when you launch OmniFocus. The problem is that each copy of OmniFocus needs to maintain that ordering, and so needs to communicate it by sync, through a file format that currently does not provide for doing so.
I do not think you will find that most OmniFocus users would be happy if they sorted the day's expected workload by priority on their desktop, then discovered as soon as they went elsewhere and pulled out their iPhone or iPad that their efforts were for naught (or worse yet, saw a stale version that gave no indication of being so).
If it were convenient to deploy such a change outside of a major release (where non-trivial changes to the file format are more reasonable), we probably would have seen it by now. Users have been asking for some variation of this for many years.