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2010-05-29, 06:17 AM
Hi.
I wonder if we are stumbling into the space of "how people best work" differences. As a technology manager, I am surrounded by folks who can read and visualize list-based information better than graphical information. There are a few of us, at least where I work, that have lobbied successfully to have some visual graphics for each project included in the work package. This helps me get up to speed much quicker than looking down long lists.
The same is true for my use of omnifocus. I struggle with its slavish adherence to the list world and wish it would at least give me some kind of calendar view where I can visualize how badly behind my month or week is going to be. It would be nice to drag an iconic representation of the task, with its metadata, to another day/week/month and have omnifocus do the right thing.
I don't understand the resistance/reluctance to viewing this as a reasonable accommodation for those of us who are mentally impaired regarding lists. I have implemented dozens of Curt's and other's suggestions and have benefited greatly from them. But omnifocus is a cold and sterile environment for me. I thought tags would help, but I now realize that the few synapses of my right brain that still work are dying for a graphical representation of tasks (those that have dates assigned to them) and the ability to drag and drop those around a calendar with ease, or add in tasks that don't have date assignments. I will still look at the lists, and organize with them at the project and category/context level, but even the little bit that Microsoft Outlook (windows) provides at the bottom of the calendar is better than anything I have found so far to visualize omnifocus.
(please don't send me to import/export hell just to visualize my tasks :-).
-Ed