Continuing the discussion from Overall, how are you liking OmniFocus 2 relative to OmniFocus 1? :
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:
Fantastic post by UOF in the main ‘how are you liking OF2’ thread. Thought I’d attach it here just for reference, as his post is excellently written and spells out his thoughts on why he wants more data density in OF2.
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