Wouldn't changing the filter from "remaining" to "available" knock out those actions which have not yet started?
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2010-06-09, 01:18 PM
Wouldn't changing the filter from "remaining" to "available" knock out those actions which have not yet started?
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2010-06-09, 01:24 PM
No, Craig, the big problem with "available" is that OF defines Actions without any start date as "available". I have hundreds of Actions without start dates. I don't want to be forced to allocate start dates to get around a problem that could be so easily fixed. If there was an on/off check box in Preferences that enabled a user to define "available" as only those Actions with Start dates, then your suggestion could get around the problem, but "available" is also affected by whether a Project is Parallel or Sequential or Singles. I think it should be a Perspectives option.
Last edited by watchit; 2010-06-09 at 01:26 PM..
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2010-06-12, 01:08 AM
i think i'm wanting something different than just a due date today action list.
i want something which gives my confused mind an idiot list of things i want to do today, and a syntax for them. if i'm feeling particularly stupid or unfocused, it helps me to have a simple list of what i want to do and the order i want to do them in. -breakfast -shower -site development 1 hour -meditate -grocery shopping -call logo designer etc. these are a combination of outcome and process oriented activities, not all of which would be in an omnifocus list already. the today feature is already available in cc things, and it works great - reordering of today items is easy, and it lets me forget about everything else. what's next? oh yeah, there it is... i don't see a feasible workaround in omnifocus, and don't see why such a feature would be detrimental to any other workflows. using the OF flags doesn't give me the ability to order flagged items manually - flagged items is a context view, not a projects view. "today" status is the single feature which makes me keep wondering when cc will get their cloud syncing act together... (well, that and the fact that omni are so damned slow at integrating their products eg omnifocus and omniplan for starters.) Last edited by elektroglide; 2010-06-12 at 01:54 AM..
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2010-06-12, 06:07 AM
I usually make such a list on paper, often using these forms from "Printable CEO".
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2010-06-12, 08:59 AM
I have an idea for an applescript that would allow moving context view actions into a user-defined order but just haven't gotten around to looking at it closely. My idea is that if your actions are ordered by project in context view, you could have an applescript that would look at the action that is above it and make the minimum change necessary in the project outline to move that action up one slot. It might be just moving the action up in the project view, or moving the action's group, or moving the project up a bit.
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2010-06-12, 09:25 PM
elektroglide, I am not suggesting a "due" date action list... I see "start" dates as the mechanism within OF to determine what is done "Today" - if an action hasn't started then it isn't ready to be done today (or earlier). Due dates are entirely different. A start date is for actions that you have decided, for whatever reason, to be done once that date (and time, if you want to be specific) has been reached. A due date is for actions where the date is set by an outside force, not just your own arbitrary decision. It is due because there will be consequence if you don't complete the action by that date (and time)... eg: a key meeting, an expiration of a discount, a flight, whatever.
I hate to harp on about it (but I will ;) - the easiest way to make a Today list within the current OF architecture is for Omni to create an option within Perspectives to only show Actions/Projects with a start date on or before "now". This should be accompanied by a more easy method of marking actions/projects with a start date/time of "now".
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2010-06-13, 06:30 PM
Quote:
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http://kouroshdini.com/2009/04/23/ho...advanced-user/ Giving a task a start date of the day you want to do the task is the same as giving it a due date for the same reason.
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