[CatOne]

If your boss says you _need_ to make a call, why not just make the call instead of putting it inside of OF with the top priority?

I don't use OF as the extreme arbiter of ALL actions. Some things are TIMED actions (e.g. conference calls, customer calls, meetings, etc.) which I put in a calendar and do at an exact time. Then I typically use dates to help me prioritize other actions. And I don't have to have a priority number sitting in front of me when confronted with 3 tasks... I do the most important ones first. When I look at the 3 actions, I can decide that then... the fact that I made the priority decision hours or days previously and marked them as such is irrelevant.

Yes, there are other threads saying OF needs priorities (one just got hit by a Chinese spammer... wanna buy something?). And for some it's helpful. But you can also work around it in various ways.