Great post; thanks for sharing! Can you go into a little more detail on how you scheduled the short-duration tasks like battery-charging and salad pickup in iCal? I've always used OmniFocus for stuff like that and just checked my lists frequently to make sure I didn't miss anything; I'm interested in hearing more about your approach.
Somewhere in either the
first or
second DavidCo "List Managers" podcasts, someone described their practice in a fairly neat way - I'm probably mangling it, but I remember it as "Do
at actions go on the calendar; Do
on actions go in a list."
That description sounded a lot like how I use OmniFocus and iCal together; I can't quite articulate how I decide between calendar event vs. all-day calendar event vs. OmniFocus action. Maybe if I could, I'd be better able to help the folks that want a calendar view in OmniFocus. :-)