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Originally Posted by Ward
Ahhhh for me, too!
Focus in Project view + switch to Context view is a different way of approaching my desire to have a client (folder) focus in Context view -- see client-specific Context view for earlier discussion.
However, I'll need to keep my wits about me when creating a focused Context view because it would be easy to hide OmniFocus and return later, not realizing the Context view has been focused. In Project view, the left pane clearly shows the focused folders/projects. In Context view, only the "Show All" toolbar button explicitly distinguishes a focused Context view from a full Context view.
In addition, a focused Context view does not identify how it has been focused. One must return to the Project view to see that.
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If you are saying...
while viewing the context view...
there should be some indication of what is being focused on in the project view...
I concur.
Maybe even just a modification of the window title.
Something like...
OmniFocus • Projects • Client A
when focused on Client A folder/project
Or when focused on Inbox...
OmniFocus • Inbox
Back to your client dilemma...
I have been there my friend, I know your pain.
Anyone who is an independent contractor
who has multiple clients
who are billed separately
is in the same dilemma.
I shoot/edit weddings on the side...
and have been in the dilemna of shooting/editing 8 different weddings
at once.
I need to be able to easily seperate the client I am working for.
This helps with billing and tracking hours.
In the context view,
I need to know the project the action relates to.
In my old system.
I got around this by having a string in every action
that I could easily search & replace for.
Something like
@weddingproject Call Coordinator for directions
Then I had an applescript that would find all occurrences of
@weddingproject
and replace it with...
Jones Wedding - Call Coordinator for Directions
I haven't had the chance to try out OF with multiple clients or projects... yet...
Have you experimented with possibly nesting the contexts?
client A context
-calls
-computer
client B context
-calls
-computer
Tagging might be another alternative.
If you put the name of your client in the note field
then when you search for your client
you could filter the list to only see
the list of client being search for.
This would be too much manual labor to type in
you would need an applescript
or automator action
that would go through the items
and automatically add or remove a tag from the note.
I'm hoping Omni builds in some sort of tagging field
that would allow you to tag multiple items at once
Maybe we should start another thread for this. :-)