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Reference, Project Support, etc

Hey Scotty and Rose, I really enjoyed the two episodes about note taking. I don't have a specific questions right now except: Would you be interested in taking this a bit further into the world of reference tools and work flows? I struggle with having documents all over the place. My work is a big Microsoft (O365) shop, and until a year or so ago, most of my personal digital life has been on a PC but recently I've found myself shifting to Mac (iPhone, iPad, old iMac). Switched to OmniFocus 3, etc (which is great!) Just curious if this might be a good unnested folders topic. Thanks for your great work. Peter

How about an "analogue diet"?

Hello Nested Folders Nestlers (or how shall I call you two?)- Thank you for this great podcast! I use GTD for my private and work life and, after some nervous breakdowns related to Todo software not working as I like, have turned to use a fully analogue system for my task lists and project list. I want to do this at least for a little while to stop fiddling with apps and concentrate on "doing" (wow, what a concept ;-) ). I was wondering if you two could entertain the thought to go fully analogue for a while, too? Do you think this is helpful to increase ones focus? Thank you and cheers, all the best, and stay safe! -Sebastian (Neuss, Germany)

OmniFocus : How To Create Shortcut to Add Project and its Tasks

Good evening, I am not very experiment in developing shortcuts, but I would like to create a shortcut, that by asking me a few questions would create a project in OmniFocus as well the project tasks, for repetitive projects without regular schedule. Thanks Ricardo

Time Planning tagging system

Hi Rose & Scotty, Using OmniFocus, my GTD practice is pretty by-the-book: projects for anything that requires more than two steps, reasonably traditional GTD contexts, etc. Over the last couple of years, however, I have been playing with time planning tags to overlay my more traditional GTD system. I'm not talking about time blocking but more specifically organizing your tasks by Today, This Week (broken down by days of the week), Next Week, This Month, Next Month, etc. I have seen many people set this up (Colter Reed, for example. https://youtu.be/MF5YAHoQMIM) but whenever I do, it just ends up being more work than it is worth and then I just ditch it. Where I run into difficulties is that I am constantly updating tags. For example, if I tag a task with @Home, it usually stays @Home, but if I also tag that task with @Monday or @This Month, it is additional work and maintenance to update those tags when the task doesn't happen on Monday or This Month. Yet the concept continues to appeal to me. I'm wondering what your thoughts are on organizing tasks in this manner? Thanks for the great podcast. Always enjoy the topics and discussion! Peter