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2011-12-17, 07:06 AM
I'm about 3 months into OmniFocis, so pardon if I sound like a moron. Almost 2 years I read GTD, and it helped me immensely, then this summer I tried to create something on Numbers to track my time, but since discovered Things, which was too unwieldy for me, and then OmniFocus, which I love.
At first I used it all as long to-do list, but then learned how to use contexts, perspectives, etc.
But like most on this thread, I wanted to see what I had to do in a "Day View" so I found a script for it, and that helped. But then I realized I couldn't see it visually the way I can in iCal (which lacks much to be desired) but still, you can see what you have to do on a given day at a given time. OmniFocus for IPad's forecast view was cool, but still, I wanted to see actions for a given day, based on context.
So I found a script from simplicityisbliss which lets you create an "iCal" context, and you put your actions in that context (after installing the script), run the script, sync to iCal, and it works.
The only prob is that you have to put actions in that "iCal" context, but I already had other contexts for certain actions, such as "create a document" (I'm a writer) or "email contact." The script won't allow you to "nest" other contexts under your new "iCal" context, because it only reads "actions."
I did not want to have to manually duplicate an action simply to have it in iCal, and did not want to remove its present context which was essential for me on OmniFocus in terms of organizing how, I was going to get the action done.
I did not want to move the context to the "iCal" context on that day, just to be able to see it in my day view on actual Mac calendar. So I'm at a bit of a loss.
I'm not a geek, just a writer who's a little ADD-ish, so I don't know how to make actions show up on iCal without removing their primary contexts. If there was a way the script could "nest" contexts, such as OmniFocus and have a big parent context like "iCal" under which you could delegate the actions to the iCal context so that the "due" actions would show up on your calendar when you need to get it done, that would help.
Anyone know how to do this?
I was even thinking that if I could