I won't know until I design the warp if that is true but it's a place to start. If I decide I want to weave linen I'll make a project in OF called something like Linen weavings and the first action would probably be, decide if I can use the same warp and threading for napkins, shower curtain and dish towels, because all 3 items can probably be woven off on the same warp. I see that I actually have say, 3 projects, one for linen dish towels, one for linen napkins and 1 for a linen curtain for the shower. When I finish my current weaving I'll take a look at that and decide what I want to work on. So I have a DT note that is Weaving Projects to Do. Books never really make it into my Omnifocus lists but a Weaving project might.
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In fact my books to read lists are even more finely divided, I have a Books to Read - Non-Ficiton, Books to read - Mystery, Books to read - Sci Fi, books to read - Travel and more. Ditto for things like Knitting projects to do, Scrapbook Projects to do, and similar items. I don't need to see them until I am ready to start a new book, then I review that list. I can look at a single page with 50 books to read faster than I can evaluate 50 projects or click on 50 actions in Omnifocus during review. That is the sort of thing I keep in a DEVONThink note in a folder called Someday/Maybe. I know it sounds big but in my world with 1800+ potential projects in my someday/maybe lists keeping about 350 in my Omnifocus system is small.Ĭorrect. Keeping my Omnifocus system thin and streamlined is critical but it's taken a while to get it working smoothly. It's always someplace you could move to or go get if necessary. It's just not where you are right now or requires equipment or tools you do not have with you right now. A context is never really on hold in my mind. I also don't like on-hold contexts because that just seems wrong to me. I don't like having S/M projects active in OF because then their actions show up on my lists so I always use the hold option to hide those projects and actions from my doing views. Then I read my DEVONThink notes of someday/maybe projects, partly to see if I need to make any active and partly because I fairly frequently discover that I actually completed one without remembering it was on one of my S/M lists.
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I do them in that order during my weekly review. I also have custom perspectives set up so I can review stalled, active, pending, on-hold and remaining projects separately. For me, once I get to more than about 350 projects to review in Omnifocus I get frustrated and that's a sign for me to pull the older S/M projects back into DT where it is quicker to review them. I also have about 100 projects that are pending, as in waiting for some start date, and about 120-150 active projects at any given time. In my world projects can take decades to finish and things move in and out of S/M regularly. I also pull out of OF projects that I won't get to for a year or longer, even if I was working on them for a while. More than that and I'll pull them out of OF and back into DEVONThink. I try to keep that list to around 120-150 projects at most. I find it faster to review them by reading a page of one liner project titles vs using OFs review facility.įor those projects that are closer in timeframe, as in I expect to move them out of someday/maybe and actually work on them this year I have them in a folder called Someday/Maybe Projects but they are all On Hold.
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Instead I have them in notes in DEVONThink. The majority of my someday/maybe items are not in Omnifocus at all.