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Originally Posted by pdurocher
Most importantly: how come it is so hard to perform such a simple task?
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Because you're looking in the wrong place. :-)
The view bar in OmniFocus sorts by
project in planning mode, and by
action in context mode. The inbox is in planning mode, so view bar sorting has no effect on the contained actions.
The thinking behind this is that the order of actions within projects has special, user-assigned meaning (based to dependencies or importance), so OmniFocus doesn't arbitrarily move them about in planning mode with the view bar.
However, if you wish to permanently sort a selection of actions in planning mode (e.g. to sort a list of book titles on your reading single-action list), there is a "destructive" sort command under the Edit menu. The same option can be reached by right-clicking on some selected actions in planning mode.
This command does a one-time "destructive" sort on the actions, as if you had manually moved them in that order (only with a lot less effort).
Hope that helps.
-Dennis