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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jan 18, 2019 at 07:40 PM
Just a note to say that GQueues, recently mentioned here https://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/8555/0/gqueues-question was one my favourite task managers for quite some time.
I now use a paper system for my own task management, coupled with online project management applications for our team’s overview.
Posted by Paul Korm
Jan 19, 2019 at 01:23 PM
Can you describe your “paper system” a bit — or perhaps you covered it elsewhere? I’ve been thinking I would collect less dreck than I do in OmniFocus if I put it aside in favor of a paper organizer.
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>I now use a paper system for my own task management, coupled with online
>project management applications for our team’s overview.
Posted by Beck
Jan 19, 2019 at 04:02 PM
Paul Korm wrote:
>collect less dreck
Well stated.
Posted by Ken
Jan 19, 2019 at 06:14 PM
Paul Korm wrote:
Can you describe your “paper system” a bit — or
>perhaps you covered it elsewhere? I’ve been thinking I would
>collect less dreck than I do in OmniFocus if I put it aside in favor of
>a paper organizer.
>
I use both paper and software and find that things accumulate in both systems. On paper, you can write up a new list and transfer the “cling on” tasks to a fresh list or perhaps a secondary list. You can do the same with software, so I am not sure which better addresses the issue. I suspect that a secondary list is probably the right answer so you can address the items on your essential to-to list, but some items just do not seem to get resolved, nor can they be deleted due to their need to be resolved. I wish you luck.
—Ken
Posted by Hugh
Jan 20, 2019 at 12:12 PM
Beck wrote:
Paul Korm wrote:
>>collect less dreck
>
>Well stated.
Yes, I agree the dreck is a problem. Whilst I remain a fan of OmniFocus (and aware that it does have tools for separating the dreck from the non-dreck), I recently decided that I needed something else as well.
So now I use OmniFocus as a daily “menu of tasks”, and every day either drag and drop between three and six “MITs” (Most Important Tasks) to my Fantastical Calendar (where the task durations are respected - thanks to, I think, Paul Korm here, who alerted me to this), or write them by hand on index cards held by a slim index-card holder complete with mini ball-point that I carry around (NoteShel is a relatively inexpensive brand).