I’m an avid user of OmniFocus. It gives me the ability to manage all my current projects and to prevent me from forgetting things I want to do. For example when I pack for a trip I use the awesome Templates.scpt AppleScript to generate a new project.
It has a lot of awesome features, such as being able to customise the due date when creating a project. But when planning the courses I’m doing there was a missing feature: The ability to create a project with numbered tasks. For example:
I worked around this by creating a template that has 25 sequential tasks, from “Read chapter 1” through “Read chapter 25” because most courses have less than 25 chapters. Then on every task I added “@if $Chapters < 1 then delete” through “@if $Chapters < 25”. It takes a relatively long time to scaffold a project this way, but while it’s working I can focus on doing something else.
