[HunterBoss]

Originally Posted by brianogilvie

I'm puzzled by this. A perspective is a saved view of your data; it's not a property of a task. Do you mean context or project?

Yeah, you're right. My bad.

Context

And, I think I have last night's build and it's still doing it

Christopher

[santra]

I have the problem in build 92120 (9-28-2007 20:10:06). When I'm in the InBox, if I check off an item that doesn't have a context or project yet, it goes to my Miscellaneous bucket (default for singletons) and stays there, crossed through, forever (exiting OF doesn't help, nor clicking on Clean Up however many times). I have to select items like this and delete them manually.

[brianogilvie]

Originally Posted by santra

I have the problem in build 92120 (9-28-2007 20:10:06). When I'm in the InBox, if I check off an item that doesn't have a context or project yet, it goes to my Miscellaneous bucket (default for singletons) and stays there, crossed through, forever (exiting OF doesn't help, nor clicking on Clean Up however many times). I have to select items like this and delete them manually.

Is it visible even if you are not showing Completed or All actions? If so, report the bug. If it is only visible with those filters, that's normal behavior: completed actions remain in the OmniFocus database until you delete them.

[santra]

Originally Posted by brianogilvie

Is it visible even if you are not showing Completed or All actions? If so, report the bug. If it is only visible with those filters, that's normal behavior: completed actions remain in the OmniFocus database until you delete them.

OK, no, they are not visible if a filter is set to "Remaining" and left that way.

OTOH, if they have no context, when I am in Context view, filtering for Completed items, the ones in No Context don't show up!

I've reported all this to the ninjas.

>>>completed actions remain in the OmniFocus database until you delete them

I find this unbelievably frustrating. The way completed items hang around in various places--I won't go into detail here--is driving me absolutely nuts. And I think it's bad psychologically. We want to be Getting Things Done! And yet, when we get them done and check them off, they're still hanging around somewhere! Even after "cleaning up"!

I still love--abolutely love--the way many of the UI procedures are handled; the design is beautiful, for the most part. But this issue of completed items is dragging me down. I keep thinking about how iGTD handles it: they disappear instantly, are never in your face again, and are tidily swept into the "Completed" area. If you ever want to find 'em, you can. That's what I'd like to see in OF.

[jasong]

When I check an action off, it disappears. When I mark a project as complete, it disappears.

I'm using my filters to make this happen. I'm showing only "Active Projects", only "Remaining" actions in Project mode and "Available" actions in Context mode.

I don't think you need to be frustrated, you may only need to set your filters appropriately.

[jasong]

And, I should note, the fact that they remain in the database until you delete them is a good thing: "If you ever want to find 'em, you can".

[santra]

Originally Posted by jasong

When I check an action off, it disappears. When I mark a project as complete, it disappears.

I'm using my filters to make this happen. I'm showing only "Active Projects", only "Remaining" actions in Project mode and "Available" actions in Context mode.

I don't think you need to be frustrated, you may only need to set your filters appropriately.

OK, cool. Once set, will these filters "stick"? I.e. when I go to a Perspective? (Maybe I need to resave all my Perspectives with these attributes.)

[jasong]

Yes, set up a window as you'd like, then save as a perspective. You can have many perspectives with different setups.