But I find that Things does everything I need, in a style I prefer, and I’m happier using it. I recognize that there are people whose workflows and use needs require OmniFocus, and I totally get it. It’s elegant, and - for me - a much more pleasing environment in which to organize my tasks. When Things (by Cultured Code) came along, I tried that and found that I did really love it. It seemed to me that it looked more complicated that it needed to. Something about the interface … it always felt cluttered to me. But … I found myself liking it, but never loving it. OmniFocus is an extremely well made app - powerful, reliable and feature-rich. It worked very well, but when OmniFocus came out I switched to that. There are lots more reasons why I love DT - including a highly responsive development team and an active, helpful userbase - but these are just a sampling.Īs for Tasks, long ago I actually used to use OmniOutliner. It has great tools for annotating, and adding metadata … you can replicate a document into multiple folders (basically links that look like the original doc) … and you can index files on your hard drive so it looks like they’re in DT, but they’re still on your hard drive and you didn’t have to eat up hard drive space by copying them into DT. ![]() Items are stored in their native formats, so if DT disappeared tomorrow, everything in it would be effortlessly retrievable. Also rock-solid.Īll of my research - books, magazine, websites, docs, photos, etc - go into DevonThink, which turns them into searchable PDFs, and uses its own AI to make connections among them. (Everybody has one particular thing that they fixate on in how they use or evaluate and app, and for whatever reason, that’s one for me.)įor organizing research and projects, I use DevonThink Pro. I find that very helpful in scanning the results, and surprisingly, a lot of other note-taking apps don’t do that. One of the things I liked about Evernote that Apple Notes does: when I do a search - basically, filtering all my notes to show me just those with a certain Tag or search string - I get a list of appropriate files that show the Created Date as well as the title of the note. It’s not perfect, but it’s more than good enough and creates as little friction for me as possible. Notes has tags, syncs everywhere, works just fine. I’ve tested Logseq, Roam, Notion, Craft, and others, and while I find them interesting and thoughtfully designed, I haven’t found one with the feature sets I need, or that serve my workflows better than OO.įor daily notes, I used to use Evernote, but it got clunky and no longer is indexed by Spotlight (which was a dealbreaker for me), so I switched to Apple Notes. Plus, as fssbob has stated, the software is mature and stable. ![]() I use OO in a wide variety of ways, and I love being able to keep several OO outlines open at the same time as separate tabs in one discrete window, rather than having multiple windows - one for each of the things I’m working on - crowding the desktop. The ability to add data or values to an item’s column, and then to be able to sort or filter the outline based on the data in the column is key for me.Īlso: OO’s robust formatting options, and the ability to format by item level … the ability to add Notes to any item, and control when they’re visible and how … and, quite honestly, the fact that OO is not Markdown-based. ![]() Just realized I hadn’t answered the core part of your question: “Why OO vs Logseq?”įor me, the most important advantage is Columns.
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