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Worse, indiscriminate use of Due dates dilutes their value and undermines any task-planning system.
Need to pay a credit card bill today? It’s lost in the mess of other things that are artificially “due” today, and that red Due badge is no longer a respected indication that something needs to happen today.1
But there’s a better way.2 Just use Start Dates to plan what you think you should do, and reserve Due Dates for things that actually have to get done. (To keep this straight, I use a “Due” perspective to show what’s actually due, and a “Do” perspective to show what I’m planning to do.3)
The benefits of this approach are enormous. Things that actually need to happen don’t get lost in the shuffle, and (using time estimates) you can work with more realistic expectations of what can/should happen in a a day.
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All OmniFocus scripts updated for a “Start-based” workflow | bylr.net
Both insightful and brilliant. I’m definitely going to give this workflow a try, I might just get along better with OmniFocus too.
