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Hey all, I was wondering if someone could help me with a technical function I wish to create within OmniFocus but just can't seem to engineer it the way I desire.

So basically I wish to set up a linear sequential view of chosen tasks that simply shows me what to do one after the other as per how I have configured it previously. Now not so difficult I know, just set up a sequential project, set the whole project to flagged, and there you have it. View flagged and you have a beautiful, clean, 'do a task and the next pops up' linear format. And this would satisfy were it not for where I would be pulling these tasks from throughout the day. They are not simply coming from the inbox, they are also coming from various other single use and even daily repeating projects.

So say I have in my inbox "return book to library" and make "make lunch", which can both just be put into misc. I also have a daily repeating project titled say "grooming" which contains the parallel tasks "brush teeth" and "shower". The time rolls around in the day where I wish to create and process this linear task list, so I wish to pull the available and desired tasks from the relevant perspective and place them in the list, in a certain order, to then be viewed and completed in this efficient, simplistic format. Obviously if I were to pull them all into the sequential project explained above it would ruin the integrity of the daily repeating project and would create the need for me to re add those tasks every time I did this which would obviously defeat the point of the repeat function. The other option that keeps springing to mind but also just falls short is simply flagging, however this runs into problems with 1. The flagging option showing more than one task at a time even if it is set to show next action, which would not be such a problem if it weren't for 2. Not being able to move around items in the flagged list, thereby leaving me with far from the order and format I desire. Obviously I could set an individual due time for each item which would then present them in a certain order but this is much more hassle than is necessary for this simple function, I'm sure there must be a way to simply view whats available, pull it up onto the list, and then simply do the list in the order previously decided upon.

Thanks for any suggestions, this ones a niggler...

Luke