Hey, Development Team! Please advise: here's something that your documentation appears not to address:
So after successfully importing an Omnioutliner file, I find that all the items cannot be dropped into the Inbox. Selecting all the items and right clicking on them provides a choice of a default context. But after making that selection, they don't show up in that context. Of course they didn't go through the Inbox, but, did they need to?
There are many, many devilish details like this that I'm running into, so many that I don't have time to leave more cat droppings like this in the Forum Litterbox.
You need some newbys who can sit in a room next to you and just try to use and "break" Omnifocus. Please, please disabuse yourself of the idea that your audience/user base has to be considerably GTD-proficient to grasp this software, assuming you want this to be a highly successful product.
By listening to newbys who are stumbling through this, it would help you to unlearn all the tacit knowledge you've unconsciously accumulated about Omnifocus and GTD, knowledge that obscures any understanding of what a novice needs to learn to become rapidly productive. Otherwise, you will not likely be able to properly provide user documentation reasonably free of unconscious, tacit assumptions; documentation of the true "basics" of Omnifocus, "basics" that show numerous alternate scenarios of how to navigate this application to create VALUABLE life outcomes!
You can revise your intro video till the cows come home, but it's still a linear, non-randomly accessible medium and, as such, more primitive as a medium; of communications than a simple book index. Just get a copy of Ecco Pro's hypertext-based help file documentation. It will blow you away.
So after successfully importing an Omnioutliner file, I find that all the items cannot be dropped into the Inbox. Selecting all the items and right clicking on them provides a choice of a default context. But after making that selection, they don't show up in that context. Of course they didn't go through the Inbox, but, did they need to?
There are many, many devilish details like this that I'm running into, so many that I don't have time to leave more cat droppings like this in the Forum Litterbox.
You need some newbys who can sit in a room next to you and just try to use and "break" Omnifocus. Please, please disabuse yourself of the idea that your audience/user base has to be considerably GTD-proficient to grasp this software, assuming you want this to be a highly successful product.
By listening to newbys who are stumbling through this, it would help you to unlearn all the tacit knowledge you've unconsciously accumulated about Omnifocus and GTD, knowledge that obscures any understanding of what a novice needs to learn to become rapidly productive. Otherwise, you will not likely be able to properly provide user documentation reasonably free of unconscious, tacit assumptions; documentation of the true "basics" of Omnifocus, "basics" that show numerous alternate scenarios of how to navigate this application to create VALUABLE life outcomes!
You can revise your intro video till the cows come home, but it's still a linear, non-randomly accessible medium and, as such, more primitive as a medium; of communications than a simple book index. Just get a copy of Ecco Pro's hypertext-based help file documentation. It will blow you away.
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