Paper has the advantage of having exactly one user, who knows all the rules and can customize them 100% to their needs. Software could be written to work that way, but then you'd only have one customer. :-)
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Paper has the advantage of having exactly one user, who knows all the rules and can customize them 100% to their needs. Software could be written to work that way, but then you'd only have one customer. :-)
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2009-01-22, 10:48 PM
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So maybe my solution is “do more reviews,”*I don’t know. I just see a big distinction between a formal review like, “What do I need to do to accomplish Become World-Class Heart Surgeon?”*and a more casual review like, “What do I need to do to Return Library Book?” Maybe I’m going against the GTD methodology here, but do you see what I’m getting at? Some “projects”*are actually very simple tasks in and of themselves.
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2009-01-22, 10:51 PM
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2009-01-22, 10:54 PM
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Yes, that works, thanks! I also just changed to color settings so that Next Actions look like every other action. That helped!
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2009-01-22, 11:03 PM
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And by the way, can I just take a moment to say that I’m not trying to be antagonistic or obtuse or overly critical here. I love the OmniGroup, and I have been using your products since before Mac OS X. I am just trying to wrap my brain around how this works, and how I can get the functionality I am looking for. You have been very helpful!
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2009-01-22, 11:05 PM
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2009-01-22, 11:14 PM
Drag the project into another project. Poof, it turns into an action group in that project. If you drag an empty project into another project, it becomes an action instead of an action group. Similarly, if you drag an action or action group to the sidebar, or just outdent it with cmd-[ or Edit->Outlining->Outdent, it will turn into a project.
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Action groups act like actions in most ways. However, an action group which has not been marked completed (even if all the included actions have been marked completed) in a sequential project will not block subsequent actions.
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2009-01-22, 11:20 PM
Another important distinction is that an action group "name" will not show up in context mode. One proposal that has been floated in the past is to have the action group "name" show up in the context mode when all of the contained actions have been completed, though it isn't clear to me which context should have it. The default context for the action group, perhaps, except you don't have to assign one.
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2009-01-22, 11:34 PM
Yeah, I'm not quite sure what Brian had in mind there, as the instructions should work fine without that step. I don't know what it would mean to focus on a subset of the contexts, exactly -- what would you do if you flipped back over to project mode, only show the actions from the restricted set of contexts?
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2009-01-23, 10:38 AM
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Really, if action groups were implemented in this way, it would solve a lot of the problems I have with using OF.
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