If you have very predictable routines, then OF may work well. Generally, I think OF is just not dynamic enough to keep up with changes and it creates a lot of friction to move things around. I use a combination of paper and digital tools alongside OF. Keeping those in a behemoth the size of OF feels sort of like buying a car with tons of features and only using it to drive from point a to b. I mean, we are talking about simple lists. Lately it’s occurred to me that OF is seriously overkill for just that. In fact, many of the things you mention are in my system right now! It’s kind of amazing: it’s evolved into that simple list system for me, too. So OmniFocus, it’s not you - it’s me, I just don’t think we’re compatible… or do you have any suggestions how we could make it work? But this is more adhoc than a working system - so much slips through and I definitely never achieved the zen mind that I imagine a working GTD practice offers. The default way I manage my todo lists is just using Notes app to collect everything, and then making a 1 or 2 day plan in Taskpaper. In reality though I just can’t seem to integrate OmniFocus into my life, although I desire to. I still think the app is awesome - although haven’t really tried any of the alternative apps that have emerged since, because I’d already sunk so much cash into OF. And so now, before I click renew on my web subscription - I think it’s time I seriously rethink if this really is the app for me - because every year I am only able to commit to it for a month, before letting it slide until returning a year later - with the greatest of intentions - only to fail again. I have sunk a lot of money into it over these years - but I’ve never actually been able to make it work. As an avid reader of Merlin Man’s blog and GTD convert, I just thought it was a super cool app, and so I purchased every new version, and then every version subsequently released for a new device. I don’t want to see any of the other 3rd level items.I have been “using” OmniFocus since the beginning, back when it was a script in OmniOutliner. In other words, if I have a tree with multiple 3rd level items and I tag one of them, I want to see only that third-level item, its parent, and its grandparent. What I don’t want to see is all that tagged item’s siblings and cousins. I do want to see a tagged item’s ancestors, all the way up to the first-level item, but only those items in a direct line upward. Please forgive me if I didn’t explain that properly. Effect :: focus on ancestors of matches. With processing of any captured values. "description": "Focus on ancestors of tagged items." "name": "Focus on ancestors of tagged items.",
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