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Originally Posted by vocaro
The way it is now, confusing situations can arise. For example, I have two projects for editing two different home movies:
Edit Home Movies (Project)
---> Home Movie 1 (Action Group)
---> Home Movie 2 (Action Group)
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But you're diagram shows only *one* project with two action groups. Since action groups are
not projects in OmniFocus (at least not currently), I'd move both up a level and make them real projects, perhaps enclosing them in a "Home Movies" folder.
Having each movie as an action group in the Edit Home Movies project seems to unnecessarily complicate things. With each as a real project, you'll have a lot more control (e.g. they can be placed on hold or dropped independently, organized in different folders, individually focused on, sorted in planning mode, etc).
Action groups are better used for organizing collections of actions for visual clarity (allowing a large series of actions to be collapsed) or to allow switching from serial to parallel execution. For example:
Home Movie 1 (Project in serial execution)
---- Shoot footage (Action)
---> Buy supplies (Action Group in parallel execution)
-------- Buy Final Cut Pro license (Action)
-------- Buy new hard drive (Action)
-------- Buy new FireWire cable (Action)
---- Edit video (Action)