Why not move to DT entirely? I’m not a GTD guy either, but DT doesn’t schedule tasks, DT doesn’t have due dates.
What do you think?Īs far as migrating the content over to DEVONthink, not sure how best to do that, especially since you haven’t indicted in what format the information is kept in OmniFocus (embedded files? Referenced files? Plain text in the Notes section? those will all require different approaches to migration). In this case, again I’m back to the issue of how I get my content from OF to DT without manually moving hundreds and hundreds of items. Why not move to DT entirely - what does OF do that DT cannot do? It seems to me that maybe I need to only be using DT, since I don’t really follow the GTD methodology strictly. Have you given DEVONthink’s Item Links a try with OmniFocus? Does this ease some of your struggles? I wouldn’t in a million years replace OmniFocus with DEVONthink or vice versa because neither does the job of the other.
I’ll paste a DEVONthink link to that manuscript in the OmniFocus action so I can easily access it and never even have to dig around or search. That manuscript is in a folder in Dropbox and indexed by DEVONTthink. Likewise, I might have something like “Review revisions on Manuscript XYZ”. It also means that when I receive whatever I need from that person, I can just click the link to deposit their consent form or whatever the item is at the same time as I complete the action in OmniFocus. If I have an OmniFocus action like “Follow-up with Person X” or “Outstanding consent form for Person X” I’ll paste a link to the DEVONthink group that corresponds to that person so I can have easy access to the group that contains my notes on them, a link to their address book contact card, and all other relevant info about that individual that could never live in OmniFocus. If you have content-heavy actions, store and organize the content in DEVONthink, which is its purpose, and add a link to that content in the Notes section of an OmniFocus action.įor example, I have DEVONthink groups devoted to each of my research informants/participants. One feature that might be helpful for you is the ability to create clickable links to any DEVONthink content. Why not use DEVONthink and OmniFocus in tandem in a way that capitalizes on each of their strengths?
In my opinion one could never replace another, they are complimentary programs. DEVONthink is not great at, nor is it intended to, organize tasks or actions. DEVONthink and OmniFocus serve profoundly different purposes.OmniFocus is not great at, nor is it intended to, organize information.
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