I have yet to figure out a way to implement a "doing today" list in OF. The night before, I like to review my projects and actions and adjust due dates so that there is a subset of my actions that I would like to do tomorrow. As I am creating actions, I also assign due dates. If I assign 10 actions that I want to do tomorrow, then when tomorrow comes, I want to have a clean, clutterfree, list of those 10 things and those 10 things only, to look at for me to work from throughout my day.
The problem I have is that there is no good way in OF or OF for iphone to have a view for the things you want to do today. I have tried the flagging/perspective method described in this youtube video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIu8JI4rKQM
but its an additional step beyond the dates I have already assigned and there is no way to duplicate that on the iphone. I would like to have this available on my mac and on my iphone.
I can make a perspective in OF that sorts by date, but then I also get overdue items listed as well as those due a month in the future, all in the same screen (still not want I had in mind). If I assign due dates to those 10 items of say Aug 1, then on Aug 1, when I look at my iphone, those items are already marked "overdue" (unless i went to the extra trouble and effort of assigning a due time to 6pm or some other time that is later than the current time). Then my "due today" items and my actually overdue (where the due date was yesterday or before) items are lumped in the same group (the 'overdue' section on my iphone). I spend my day working out of the "overdue" section on my iphone. It's a small nuance, but it's pretty defeating when your system already assumes you are "behind" at the beginning of your day! Having a "today" section seems like such an obvious feature. Is there a reason why Omnigroup doesn't want that to exist? I love the approach of using perspectives, but there doesn't seem to be a good way to utilize perspectives to do this for you and perspectives aren't currently syncable to iphone (new feature perhaps?). I was prompted to write this post when I discovered the iphone application for "Things" (another gtd app) and was struck by how elegant and simplistic the main interface was. "Today" is the first thing on the screen after "Inbox" and I think that's how it should be.
Omnigroup, will you please implement "Today" for mac and iphone?
The problem I have is that there is no good way in OF or OF for iphone to have a view for the things you want to do today. I have tried the flagging/perspective method described in this youtube video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIu8JI4rKQM
but its an additional step beyond the dates I have already assigned and there is no way to duplicate that on the iphone. I would like to have this available on my mac and on my iphone.
I can make a perspective in OF that sorts by date, but then I also get overdue items listed as well as those due a month in the future, all in the same screen (still not want I had in mind). If I assign due dates to those 10 items of say Aug 1, then on Aug 1, when I look at my iphone, those items are already marked "overdue" (unless i went to the extra trouble and effort of assigning a due time to 6pm or some other time that is later than the current time). Then my "due today" items and my actually overdue (where the due date was yesterday or before) items are lumped in the same group (the 'overdue' section on my iphone). I spend my day working out of the "overdue" section on my iphone. It's a small nuance, but it's pretty defeating when your system already assumes you are "behind" at the beginning of your day! Having a "today" section seems like such an obvious feature. Is there a reason why Omnigroup doesn't want that to exist? I love the approach of using perspectives, but there doesn't seem to be a good way to utilize perspectives to do this for you and perspectives aren't currently syncable to iphone (new feature perhaps?). I was prompted to write this post when I discovered the iphone application for "Things" (another gtd app) and was struck by how elegant and simplistic the main interface was. "Today" is the first thing on the screen after "Inbox" and I think that's how it should be.
Omnigroup, will you please implement "Today" for mac and iphone?
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