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Originally Posted by Tim Wood
Judicious use of tags certainly can be very helpful, but as a primary organization system tagging leads to too much taxonomical fiddling rather than getting stuff done.
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Funny -- that's exactly how I feel about the hundreds of combinations possible via the "View Bar." While no doubt useful to some, I find that
they lead to too much fiddling, rather than getting stuff done.
Consider the number of times users have posted, here, about items that had seemingly "dissappeared" -- only to discover, later, that they had selected the "wrong" view or had/had not performed a "clean up," etc.
While I fully grasp the current system, I hardly find it "simple." I'm always afraid something important is hidden because I've selected the "wrong" view. Conversely, being able to add a few keywords (i.e., tags) to tasks or projects (and later being able to sort by tag) seems, to me, blissfully simple and intuitive.
Of course, we all work differently, so it's about finding the tools that work best for each. Sadly, after using OF for several months, I'm not fully convinced it's right for me. Although I believe in the team behind the app, the differences in philosophy about what OF is to be (and for whom) leave a lot of questions on the table for me. That couldn't have been underscored better than in the example above. Some of us think tags would be highly useful, but a member of the development team thinks tags would lead to too much fiddling. So for now, we must either do it the OF way or look elsewhere.
Recently, in another thread, I proposed the idea of a simple, 3-level checkbox to indicate that a task is "in progress," and you'd have thought I'd shouted satanic chants in a nun's forum. LOL. Perhaps, instead of attempting to appeal to everyone, the OmniFolk should just go ahead and call OF a "GTD app."
It's interesting to observe how the playing field shifts. For some time, now, I've felt OF is the best choice, even though it (understandably) had fewer features than iGTD. But I couldn't stand to look at iGTD. Now, there's a preview of iGTD2, and while still not as clean as OF, there are dramatic refinements that will make it much easier to gaze upon (whenever it's released).
For now, I'm still trying to make OF work for me, but I always feel like that I'm forcing myself to conform to
it. Then, enters yet another contender: "Things." Wow. Gorgeous. And tags! But, naturally, not as feature-rich as OF, which isn't as feature-rich as (the ugly-for-now) iGTD. And so forth, and so on....
In a couple of years, no doubt each of these apps will have many of the features that most of us need. But for now, choosing
The One App is a daunting task. For me, that's still a "Someday/Maybe." :-)