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Originally Posted by cez1
Agreed. I understand that keeping your "hard deadline" timetable (iCal) and your GTD workflow separate is useful (and essential in most cases), but I spend so much time in OF that it seems almost wasteful having to add hard deadlines to iCal when they can just be "assigned" in OF.
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The "hard landscape" items which are best kept in a calendar are things which you know that you will be doing
at a certain time, not
by a certain time. That means that appointments, meetings, performances, parties, and so forth should go in the calendar (and probably not also in OF).
Actions that need to be completed
by a certain time, but which do not dictate a particular time at which you must work on them, can be placed in OF. These are not considered to be "hard landscape" items, and do not need to be in a calendar, unless you need a calendar to visualise due dates. If you choose to put them in a calendar, it would be a conceptually different calendar from those which contain true "hard landscape" items. If you keep these out of the calendar, you could use OF's view bar to group and/or sort by Due in order to get a sense for approaching (or past!) deadlines.