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Originally Posted by Schnack
A-ha! It's the little things that escape us! Strange quirk of the programmers but it certainly does work. Thanks again for your help! (support ninjas: at ease)
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In OmniFocus (and OmniOutliner too), there are two ways to select rows:
- Click anywhere in the title of an item and you immediately go into edit mode for the title.
- Click on the bullet (aka "row handle") to manipulate the entire row for selection, moving, duplicating, deleting, etc.
The huge advantage of this approach is that editing row content becomes as simple and natural as editing lines in a text file:
- single-click to place your cursor (instead of the double-click required by apps like Things)
- single-click and drag to select a range of text in the row
- when in edit mode you can use the arrow keys to move up and down between rows or backspace from one row right back through to the previous row
- hitting return gives you a new row/item (like adding a new line in a text editor).
As a result, editing in OmniFocus or OmniOutliner feels more like you're working with a document in a text editor than manipulating a clumsy database interface.
The trade-off, of course, is that many other apps lack this usability advantage, so many people need to get used to it. But once you do, editing a large number of items feels amazingly light and comforting. :-)
BTW, you can actually select rows in OmniFocus by clicking anywhere to the left of the checkbox -- it doesn't have to be right on the row handle. Also, for moving rows, you can actually drag from anywhere on the row, including the title area. You just need to make sure to click and hold for the drag; if you release your mouse/trackpad, the title area goes into edit mode.
Hope this helps.
-Dennis