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I don't care about GTD doctrine. I need priorities which is how I shrink the big list down to Today's list.
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Don't get me wrong, I'm by no means a GTD guru or zealot. But on the point of priorities, I think they're unnecessary as an explicit setting in OmniFocus, as long you're taking full advantage of the app's capabilities (contexts, focus, perspectives, flags, and state). Using the tools that already exist, I rarely have a list of more than 5-10 actions to choose from at any given time. With a list that short, deciding priority based entirely on intuition at the spur of the moment becomes quite easy. I think that's exactly the approach David Allen is encouraging in his book.
It's not as simple as that. Adding any new feature to OmniFocus requires engineering resources, and in this case, I think those resources would be better spent elsewhere. Adding features also increases the risk of regressions and system complexity, so the decision should not be made lightly. It's not as simple as, "Hey, if you don't like 'em, just don't use 'em!"
Last edited by Toadling; 2008-03-19 at 09:28 AM..