I am looking for reasons to use it, but I cannot find them. Especially with the cool new condition builder (with arbitrary nesting ). I sometimes miss the crazy perspectives that I could build, if I was using Omnifocus. I have bought Omnifocus 3 for the Mac and used it for a last project (more as an outliner). Nowadays I usually don’t even have a physical keyboard for my iOS devices.Īnd here I am now. Even more important was the realization that a task manager that works out of the box almost as I want it, is much more useful than a task manager that I can applescript to the perfect task manager for me, because on iOS, you (mostly) have to take what you get. Long story short, I realized that the look and feel was much more important to me than arbitrary nesting. Was I really jealous of somebody else because he was using a task manager I owned? Yes, I was. So I ditched Things, only to find myself very jealous some months later as a colleague of mine was going Things. ![]() However, having two task managers does not really work well (at least it did not for me at the time). But I was using folders and subfolders and nested tasks for my work stuff, so I was trying out Things just for personal stuff. I realized that I had used Omnifocus’ power and flexibility mostly to build a today view à la Things. It was beautiful and on sale and there was no crazy backlog of tasks in it. And that was contexts, not tags, so this sometimes meant ditching the real context or remembering to process the task on the mac. I started using a context to process certain tasks at my mac, for example to decouple the first instance of a repeating task. I tried the Omnifocus designer, but neither am I a good designer nor did I find a good looking and functional outfit for Omnifocus.Īnd although having the app on my phone was great, not having my custom scripts there was only half the Omnifocus I was used to. I realized that though intellectually Omnifocus was very attractive, visually it was not. My dabbling with apps for my daily lists continued. Of course, there was also the promised land of the Apple ecosystem, where also everything else should sync flawlessly… People look quite irritated when you tell them that you bought an iPhone so you can finally sync your task manager. Just with Ctrl+ Cmd+ Up/Down!Īt that time, I was still on Android, but the prospect of taking Omnifocus and its inbox everywhere with me, and an incident with my previous phone and the water bowl of my spouse’s dog made me buy an iPhone. And finally, I could rearrange the tasks of my day in the order I wanted to tackle them. I thought that was just my desire to tinker and try something new. And even wrote some sort of half baked “syncing” with Omnifocus. I was using Plaintasks in Sublimetext for my daily list. We were happy together, but there were times and situations, where I needed something different. The indefinite nesting was a crucial feature for me, as it allowed me to zoom in on tasks that were too daunting for me, breaking them into ever smaller pieces until I reached the baby steps.Īlso the great scriptability with applescript played directly into my tinkerer nature, making Omnifocus behave as I want it to, adding the features I was missing. Long time ago, when there was a seemingly abandoned Things 2 and a very shiny Omnifocus 2, with a living community and indefinite levels of subtask nesting, I was in search of a task manager to help me clarify my tasks (and with that somehow also my life). ![]() I even thought about writing a post about it on a yet to be created blog (although the post would have been a more objective comparison of the features of Things and Omnifocus 3). So don’t expect anything too deep or even actionable. This (quite long) post is mostly about me sharing my feelings (towards task managers, I know, but hey, we’re Mac Power Users).
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