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Originally Posted by Ron
To me, this is a killer feature. Don't know why it has been forgotten in this kind of management software.
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As Pierre writes, it's because OmniFocus is built to follow GTD (Getting Things Done) principles. One of those principles is that to-do lists and calendars are different things. You don't schedule things in OmniFocus the way you schedule them on a calendar. A start date is the date something becomes available to do, and a due date is the last date it can be done (without renegotiating with whoever set the due date), but neither is a day you have scheduled yourself to do things. I can have a task that becomes available February 1 (mail my income tax return) and is due April 15, but I might decide to do it on March 23.
OmniFocus is a flexible application, but it really does have GTD principles built into it.