Hello,
at the moment I am trying the trial of Omnifocus and seriously thinking about switching from Things (which is nice, but somehow doesn't really nail it for me).
So far I really like what I see, but I haven't fully understood how the filter system works. Is my assumption correct, that filters only apply to projects or have I forgotten to tick a hidden box?
My case: I really like "hiding" actions by assigning them a future start date. This is probably _the_ feature I like best about Things and I was very happy to hear, that Omnifocus also supports this, just by assigning a future start date and changing the filter to "active".
However, when working on a project with a lot of parallel tasks and assigning future start dates to some of the action steps, it is impossible for me to find the correct combination of filters to make those items disappear. However, if I assign the project itself a future start date, it is hidden immediately (when using the correct set of filters). Same with actions in single action lists (which I use for my everyday stuff).
Am I doing something wrong or is there really no way to make filters apply to action steps and/or items in single action lists? How do you handle this issue? Maybe I'm just thinking the wrong way ...
Thanks for your help!
at the moment I am trying the trial of Omnifocus and seriously thinking about switching from Things (which is nice, but somehow doesn't really nail it for me).
So far I really like what I see, but I haven't fully understood how the filter system works. Is my assumption correct, that filters only apply to projects or have I forgotten to tick a hidden box?
My case: I really like "hiding" actions by assigning them a future start date. This is probably _the_ feature I like best about Things and I was very happy to hear, that Omnifocus also supports this, just by assigning a future start date and changing the filter to "active".
However, when working on a project with a lot of parallel tasks and assigning future start dates to some of the action steps, it is impossible for me to find the correct combination of filters to make those items disappear. However, if I assign the project itself a future start date, it is hidden immediately (when using the correct set of filters). Same with actions in single action lists (which I use for my everyday stuff).
Am I doing something wrong or is there really no way to make filters apply to action steps and/or items in single action lists? How do you handle this issue? Maybe I'm just thinking the wrong way ...
Thanks for your help!