I’ve not seen this particular question and/or answer anywhere. I’m trying to google, but I’m currently in a combat zone in another country with spotty internet that, on the best of days, is 3G speed (if we sacrifice ten boxes of MRE, four hundred feet of det cord, and a mosquito net).
I am jumping back and forth between Things and OF (I know, I hate myself and just love to make myself miserable). The biggest draw of Things is it is exceedingly good to look at, EASY to manipulate ANYTHING on iphone, and Things has better syncing between devices than OmniFocus. I don’t know how anyone could test this theory out, but I’m a platoon sergeant for an infantry platoon and I keep track of a lot of stuff and I’ll sync Things and OF on my laptop and iphone (no cellular here, but lots of cobras and camels) and Things is faster every day of the week.
But, OF has more powerful focus abilties. I can really create the exact thing that I’m wanting, such as a list of tasks that are available that I must ASK one particular squad leader about, put in order of due date, and not be cluttered with other stuff. Or what tasks I’m waiting on from Supply and the TNCO regarding admin issue for my platoon. ETC.
Anyway, I got pretty good at creating some Launch Center Pro shortcuts for Things. So much so that I prefer to open it now to go to something. I would crank up LCP and click on my WORD tab, which was merely the ‘anytime’ list filtered by tags ‘army’ and ‘word’. It is a good system.
At first it looks like you can do that for OF, but you can’t.
You can’t list more than one tag to view. Why is this a big deal? Because you cannot create a URL link to a perspective. There are many webpages out there about URL links to perspectives for OF2 (omnifocus:///perspective/name) but this doesn’t work at all in LCP. Instead it takes you to the Inbox. If you select the option in LCP, it gives you this (omnifocus:///perspective/{{name}} but when you use that, it too takes you to the Inbox. I couldn’t get it to work on iPhone, iPad, or Mac.
I’ve found no documentation anywhere of how to link to URLs for perspectives. Someone, I forget where, wrote in an blog how you could get links for tags, projects, tasks, and perspectives in OF. But this isn’t an option in iOS. On MacOS it isn’t an option at all for Perspectievs.
This is a shame, really. OF has so much user friction in nearly every aspect of use on iOS, especially when compared to the elegant use of Things, that the large saving grace of OF has been its Perspectives. Yet trying to use those outside of the app is, so far for me, impossible.
I’m running all the latest software on iOS and Mac. It takes me 3-6 days to download it, but I try my best to keep up with updates.
Okay, thanks for letting me ramble. I’ve got to go prep ammo and weapons.