I just sent this feedback to OmniGroup and thought I would share it here as well, since my last OF post got such a positive response.
I’m in the middle of an OF review session (on a Friday evening, I know!) and I had a few ideas. I recently switched from using due dates to start dates, because I was sick of constantly resetting due dates when I fell behind. Typically during my review, I set start dates on the things that I want to tackle during the upcoming week. But as I review project to project, it’s hard to keep track of how many things I have committed to starting. Now I haven’t really committed to anything, but that’s not the point. It would be nice to have some kind of visual indicator of what I have selected. Right now I jump back and forth between project and context view as I plan to make sure I don’t pick too many things to start. It would be great if OF had some basic graphical reporting (perhaps borrowed from OmniGraphSketcher). It would be great to see things like:
- how many tasks are set to be started by day in the next week / month / etc.
- how many tasks are due by day in the next week / month / etc.
I’ve never really seen the point of using the estimated time field, but I realize this may be because I just don’t get it yet. I used to feel that way about start dates, but now I live by them. But if I could see the following on a graph:
- time committed by day based on due activities
- time committed by day based on start activities
Well, I’d be all over using that time estimate column.
I guess the core problem I’m getting at is, I dump all kinds of things into OF. I mean everything from when to take my garbage cans to the curb to big life goals. When I plan and review, I really would like to have a sense of how much I’m committed to so that I can be a little more realistic in my planning.