[Rolf_schmolling]

Hello, some thoughts on archive-handling:

I am not satisfied with the handling of completed items. The strike-through makes no sense to me: it is hard to read. There definitly has to go more thinking into the archive-implementation, if one needs to keep the structure of project-orientated work for further reference. It makes much sense to keep notes, projects and stuff in one place (e.g. one piece of software). I am currently using Mori with the mGTD-plug-in and trying out OF in parallel.

One way to get a satisfactory archive-implementation would be proper export into (any) proper note-taking/organisational program (Mori, Journler, OO, DT etc.)

I have used Entourage in the past for this (while keeping my mail in Mail) but putting stuff in is just clumsy implemented. On the other hand: everything is kept in one place, might be linked together (tasks and notes/events) and can be searched. But still putting stuff in, linking etc. is implemented horribly.
So if OF is doing a better job here its on my list.

Any ideas/hints/experience?

Greetings,

Rolf

[BwanaZulia]

Personally, I don't want the archive anywhere but in OmniFocus. If I complete it I want to see it for awhile (sense of satisfaction) and than have it go away. I don't want it in my iCal after a sync and certainly don't want it on my Treo/iPhone.

I do, however, want it for history. All of it. Forever.

BZ

[curt.clifton]

Rolf,

You can change the style of completed items if the strike-through bothers you. Just select a completed item and choose Format -> Fonts -> Show Fonts. The font dialog has a drop-down box for changing the strike-through.

So far I like having my completed items and projects archive in OmniFocus. I'm not sure how I'll feel after I have a year's worth of completed items in there. I'm concerned both with the programming bogging down and with the completed projects becoming so numerous as to make finding things in them impractical. But if the program can be optimized to make current project management efficient, and if the filtering function is made more powerful (e.g., allowing limiting of date ranges and searching for strings within particular columns), then I could see keeping the archive in OF.

Cheers,

Curt

[BwanaZulia]

I know it is crazy, but I really just trust OmniGroup to make OmniFocus robust enough to take tens of thousands of projects, tasks, archives and still run great. It is a database after all with some nice caching so it should work.

OmniDudes!!! Can you tell us what you have been scaling it up to or what you expect the performance to be?

BZ

[curt.clifton]

Originally Posted by BwanaZulia

I know it is crazy, but I really just trust OmniGroup to make OmniFocus robust enough to take tens of thousands of projects, tasks, archives and still run great. It is a database after all with some nice caching so it should work.

Trusting OmniGroup to create robust software that runs great isn't crazy at all. They do it time after time!

[BwanaZulia]

Originally Posted by curt.clifton

Trusting OmniGroup to create robust software that runs great isn't crazy at all. They do it time after time!

Exactly. So Archive away!

BZ