Omnifocus vs evernote9/5/2023 His job (especially between WWDC and the iOS release date) is to do research, take notes, and write. On the other hand, take someone like Federico Viticci. Throw in the fact that for many managers email is also where the work is and the compulsion to use it for task management becomes almost irresistible. This explains why so many people use their inbox as a task list (despite how ill suited email is for that). For many workers, their work starts in email: they get tasks delegated to them from their boss, they get partially done work from colleagues for them to do then next step on, they get finished work from subordinates for review, etc. If I could extend this concept a bit, I think two of the really big factors in where people manage their tasks are where the work is and where the work starts.įor example, take email. Federico Viticci explains this so well on Connected episode 344 (starting at 1h4m) No swapping between apps to log actions and ideas when in the midst of something. That is definitely not ideal, mainly because of this: That said, one of the things that I brought back with me into Things was the habit of using more the note field to capture details of the decision making involved in the action and into the project itself. The main reason was the lack of fluidity on task filtering and the whole process of tagging and processing that was built into Things and I took for granted since using it from v1. While the experience of trying was actually very enjoyable for those same reasons Ryan pointed out, it did not stick and I reverted back to my Things setup with links back to the corresponding Obsidian notes. (Evernote’s implementation looks a lot like what Noteplan has with its review filter, so I don’t feel like this message is hijacking the post topic) I was first inspired by the way Noteplan allowed for task filtering and then by the use of Obsidian’s Dataview plug-in. I’ve been thinking about this as well and even considered moving my task system entirely into Obsidian, just as did. What do I have wrong in this assessment? I’m an minimalist at heart so I’m genuinely interested. Everything is integrated but I have the power of OF at my disposal. OF keeps that structure in place and I have a link back to the note in Craft. The beauty of a program like Craft for projects notes is I can highlight a heading with its tasks and share those to OF. Even if possible, it seems to me to require substantial tweaking and customization to make a note app work as a task manager whereas OF (and other task managers) is designed specifically for that purpose. It may be that I don’t understand the possibilities in Obsidian or a similar program but I don’t see how Obsidian can handle that complexity. OF gives me those abilities through perspectives, tags, forecasts, etc. I also need the ability to look at the present and into the future for tasks coming due by me or others in a bird’s eye view and be able to filter those views by person, project, urgency, etc. I need to send emails into my task manager as a way of adding tasks, accountabilities, etc., to projects. For example, I need to be able to defer, repeat, tag, and flag projects and tasks on a ongoing, evolving basis. I have to manage a large number of relatively complex projects across multiple departments, I don’t see how a simple task system like one in Obsidian can handle that complexity. I have no idea what you do and your responsibilities may well be broader and more complex than mine but with that caveat, I don’t believe I could implement such a system effectively-though I’d love to think I could. So, before this it was iA Writer for a lot of the While I’d love to think that a consolidated system such as you describe would work, I suspect that it depends on the complexity of one’s responsibilities and tasks. DEVONthink for RSS, read-it-later, and file managementįor what it’s worth, I had already abandoned the other task managers and was trying to build a task management system in DEVONthink (using custom metadata) when Obsi came along.Obsidian for tasks and project management. So, my list is a lot simpler than and hah… (I don’t know how well this applies to Evernote’s solution-it looks like it imposes some ideas about task metadata on you.) I’m always frustrated by the limited conceptual model apps like OmniFocus put on what a task is. Infinite customizability in terms of what you include in a task, including metadata.Getting rid of the task management app has two invaluable benefits for me: So, if everything (else) you have is in Evernote, putting tasks there too may be great for you. I have never been happier with my set-up since I moved tasks into Obsidian.
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