I had been an Omnifocus user for many, many years and like others above found the swapping between not only between apps, but often between platforms too much of a hassle. With Roam and some plugins, it became very easy to have projects and tasks on the same page, and then use the Roam Toolkit plugin to quickly adjust dates eg, CTRL-ALT-UP add a day, CTRL-ALT-PGUP add a week. Roam’s backlinking then would just pull everything in. Never really did like the date formatting of January 27th, 2021 though.
For reasons aplently I started with Obsidian over the weekend. Got a lot of things worked out, but not yet tasks. Where I’d like to get to is:
- tasks appear on the project page they belong to
- ability to quickly shift dates
- pages that can query tasks and show me what’s outstanding up to and including today without me needing to shift any of yesterday’s tasks’ to accomodate.
Absolutely a GTD approach. Now David Allen might say I’m overly reliant on dates, but I use tasks tied to projects on a recurring basis. eg., “Prepare directors papers” is not a calendar item, but rather a task on a project where I can add information I need during the month. Or another example is a quick task I’m currently monitoring for payroll preparation each fortnight. I don’t want to have that in Outlook where it is 100% likely to be missed.