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Originally Posted by jashan

Another one that I find really annoying: Usually, when you double-click any item, you either open it or get the properties of that item (if that's what's getting closest to "opening" the item as the properties basically represent the item). In OmniFocus, when I double click a project another window opens with the double clicked item focussed, which I don't really feel makes any sense in most cases (I'd rather click "Focus" because if a second window opens, I'd have to close the first one which is much more work than just clicking that button - if double-clicking would just focus that item without opening another window, it would make some sense to me; but opening windows is just something I really don't want to do at all most of the time). If I want to open the properties, I have to select it, and then click "inspect" (or keep the inspector open all the time which I don't really want to do).

Many of us use and rely upon that double-click behavior you dislike so much and would be unhappy were it to disappear. What do you propose for a replacement? From context mode (where I use this feature 99% of the time), it takes much longer to focus, then switch to project mode to get the view I want (given to me automatically by double-clicking), and then I've got to do the whole painful switch back instead of just closing the new window. OmniFocus is no speed demon at those operations when you get enough actions and projects in your database, never mind the extra utility provided by being able to open those additional windows. Look at a view showing items due soon, double-click on the handful that are most critical, get windows showing them in their project context. Work those projects as appropriate, then close the windows.

And: Very important - right-clicking should use whatever I clicked on as context, instead of using what I currently have selected (which is how the current implementation seems to handle it). To create a new folder / project / single-item list when another one is already selected (which is usually the case), I first have to click into the empty area (to "unselect") and then right-click for the correct context-menu (very cumbersome).

Why not use the keyboard or File menu options to do this? They work just fine, inserting the new item immediately behind the selected one, no need to deselect anything.

Drag and drop is another area that behaves in very weird ways: I'm starting to get used to the "I have to click that little dot / icon to do drag'n'drop" - but I don't really like this as it's not the usual way of doing things (in the beginning, I thought "oh, OmniFocus doesn't even support drag and drop" - until I started "playing around" with this "weird dot in the actions"). I see the benefit that I can multiselect without using a key - but so far, I had not a single use for multi-selecting projects but had hundreds of "drag'n'drop operations". So, I really would mind doing multiselections with the usual keys (Ctrl + click for selecting individual items, Shift + Click to select the range from the currently selected item to the one I'm clicking on with Shift).

You get that right now, if you click on the row handles.

Have you watched the screencasts that Omni has provided on the OmniFocus product page? It sounds a bit like you're trying to learn the program just by experimentation, and that isn't necessarily the optimal way.