@bbech All I can recommend, as a repeatedly lapsed OmniFocus and GTD user for over a decade, is to keep what was working and find your own way of doing what works for you. My friend @jamesdempsey and I do @theweeklyreview, a podcast which might give you inspiration--we are not productivity gurus, but we just keep trying
@macgenie This is such a relief to see that others struggle here, too. I can be good with capture and logging, but try as I might, I have failed to excel at review and planning.
@macgenie @jamescousins @bbech I'm way behind on OmniFocus too. I took a detour into bullet journalling which I like, but it took me a while to figure out how this might fit with OF.
Here's what I'm thinking for now. I'm going to trim OF down based on what @rosemaryorchard was doing with git for offloading OF. However, I find text editing to be a chore on iOS even with Textastic. I probably could make it work OK with an external keyboard on iPadOS. So I'm going to do most of the heavy lifting in Taskpaper/BBEdit on macOS. Working Copy on iOS and iPadOS is still going to be essential.
The idea is to use a bullet journal to hold immediate stuff for the day. OmniFocus will be the secondary store and revisited in each morning. git/taskpaper will be the tertiary store which will be referenced only occasionally.
Hope I'm not overthinking this.
@ddykstal That feels like a lot. I think I’m pushing it using a Shortcut to process a taskpaper I send myself from my (Windows) work!
@bbech I would find it just got confusing and I’d end up with the same project in multiple places in there. An occasional cull was hugely beneficial for the system (and my peace of mind) and meant I had a much better overview.
@jamescousins I agree it sounds like a lot. I may give up on the bullet journal thing entirely, but I like @rosemaryorchard's idea to get the stuff you never review off the main set of lists until its relevant.
@bbech I switched from OmniFocus to Things a few years ago, because I think a simple GTD setup is best. I don't know if that's helpful. And lately I'm wondering if even Things might be too fussy.
@jamescousins I think it is which is why I like her idea. I started down the path but got hung up on the whole iOS thing. I think it's best approached (for me) as a macOS only thing and let OF handle the multiplatform stuff. Still, I have 4 macs to keep in sync and git will let me do that while keeping an easy to follow trail of changes.
@ddykstal Yes. I think externalising the someday/maybe is a good move (mine is just a text file), that keeps OF focused on the current.