To me Omnifocus/GTD should be all about presenting a clean task list to choose from, (and helping me spot what’s due/flagged). In project view i want to see all tasks and the outline structure. In context view I want a clean list of what i could do right now to scan and pick from.
I’m not a fan of the double line sparse look because, as people are mentioning, it’s a lot harder to scan and the structure is less obvious. Also within a very standard size window the colour coded completion checkbox is too far to the right to be the main indicator of due/flagged.
Despite a truly very nice version 2 design for all the nav and chrome, for now I prefer version 1 for the simplicity/clarity of your task list. And that’s the key.
This stuff is hard because everyone uses it a little differently and I’m sure all at Omni have tried endless way and have it this way for a reason.
While it doesn’t fix information density, I think the change shown below would make v2 my preferred option by:
- helping show the project structure by giving the first line some dominance
- bringing the due/flagged status to your attention better when picking the next thing to do from a list.
The changes here are
- completion boxes on the left (and at 70% of original v2 size)
- slightly lighter grey text in second line
Also from here you could add a preference/key to show hide the second line if you wanted to project plan in a more pure outlining mode.
Before version for reference. The overdue status is just not clear enough:
