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Originally Posted by Toadling
But you're diagram shows only *one* project with two action groups.
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That's because it's a greatly simplified example. I have other projects such as "Finish thesis". It's a large and complex project with sub-projects (er... "action groups"), each with sub-sub-projects, and so on.
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Originally Posted by Toadling
I'd move both up a level and make them real projects, perhaps enclosing them in a "Home Movies" folder.
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Doesn't that break the definition of folders? They're supposed to be "areas of responsibility", not projects to complete.
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Originally Posted by Toadling
Having each movie as an action group in the Edit Home Movies project seems to unnecessarily complicate things.
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It's no more complicated than putting them into folders. And it's quite natural, at least to me, for larger projects to have sub-projects and even sub-sub-projects.
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Originally Posted by Toadling
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).
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I think this simply reveals a limitation of OmniFocus. Why should it prevent me from being able to do all those things to sub-projects (oops! I mean "action groups")? It's an artificial constraint that serves no purpose I can see. If OmniFocus would just treat action groups as sub-projects, then all these problems and complications would go away.