How do I see first available task in all subtasks/ subprojects?

Eg I have a project “Set up systems for productivity”

Within that, I have subprojects “Set up Toggl” and “Set up OmniFocus”

When I click first available task, I only see the “Set up Toggl” first action, not the “Set up OmniFocus” first actions.

That’s because the top level is a project itself, and it sounds like it’s parallel or sequential. I’d recommend your top level is actually a folder and each subproject is a project. The alternative is to make your top level Single Action, but that’s intended for never ending lists (such as groceries).

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Ah thanks. The thing is, if I set up actual projects for each subproject, I’ll have too many projects and that will create noise and reduce the importance of the concept of a project

In my mind, a project is more of a big rock and important and subproject is like a small rock

But if there’s no other way, I’m happy to go with this. I’ll have to train my mind to see it differently

OF is based on GTD where a project is anything that has one or more steps to complete. You can try changing the project to be a Single Action List and making sure each main action is parallel or sequential (depending on what you need), but I personally prefer to work with folders and collapse the folders.

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Ah, it works with Parent project as single action and the “subprojects” as sequential. I’ll experiment with both and see how it goes!

Thanks :)

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