Can tagged items without projects be added to a folder?

[vilmosz]

Can tagged items that are not associated with a Project be added to a Folder?

[pete31]

Could you please create only one thread?

[wilsonng]

Use a Miscellaneous project or Single Action List (SAL) to hold all those tasks that don’t fit into other projects.

Everything’s gotta have a home. It’s hard to hold water in thin air. Put it in a cup or bowl. Orphaned tasks can be collected in a Miscellaneous SAL or project for us to deal with.

I have a “Personal Actions” Single Action List to hold generic things like “pick up the dry cleaning” or “Buy dog food”.

[Jasp]

Here’s an alternative that I’m trying at the moment.

My goal is to get Actions out of my Inbox and treat them as ‘Someday maybe’—things that are not really fully-fledged Project Actions. Usually things that I won’t get sacked if I don’t actually do. I found that assigning groups to a phoney project created an unnecessary step.

My Inbox clears an Action if I tag it—I don’t need to assign it to a Project. For this I use a tag called ‘Zzz’. This works well BC you only need to type ‘zz’ and Omnifocus selects the correct tag—especially useful from an iPhone.

I’ve created a Favourited Perspective that looks for Zzz tagged items. From there I can review and apply proper tags/projects, if that makes sense; &/or remove the Zzz tag. Or just delete them and never actually bother to do them :)

So, don’t ever have to bother adding an Action to a Project, unless I really want to; and the Zzz tag Perspective stops me from losing those Actions.

[Jan_H]

@Jasp

My Inbox clears an Action if I tag it—I don’t need to assign it to a Project. For this I use a tag called ‘Zzz’. This works well BC you only need to type ‘zz’ and Omnifocus selects the correct tag—especially useful from an iPhone.

The action automatically becomes assigned to a predefined project, though, when it is cleared from the Inbox. But the described method could of course still be a successful approach.