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Originally Posted by Jay6821
As someone who has gone between Things and OmniFocus a few times ... for me, the two critical differences between them are Tags and Nested Actions or Folders. ...
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The lack of multiple contexts (or tags) eliminates options to filter for tasks that combine such differences as location + frame-of-mind + priority + ... . The lack of nested folders and actions (as well as settings for sequential versus parallel action groups) essentially flattens all projects to be constructed foremost as parallel sets of tasks.
These two fundamental differences really lead to two different fundamental approaches on how one plans and works. IMO, one (OF) is more about providing a user with different ways to combine tasks to build a project with only limited ways to categorize each part, while the other (Things) is more about giving a user different ways to categorize tasks with only one way to collect them in (containers called) projects.