When I assign tags to items in the Inbox, OF moves those items out of the Inbox into a new project called Miscellaneous.
This behavior is in OmniFocus 3.4.6 on macOS.
In OmniFocus > Preferences > Organization Preferences you’ll find a “Clean up inbox items which have” setting.
In your case, it sounds like it’s set to either “A Tag” or “Either a Project or a Tag”. Since actions can only live in either the inbox or a project, they’re moved to the “Miscellaneous” single action list if no project is specified.
If you want actions to stay in the inbox until you assign a project, choose “A Project”. And if you want to enforce adding both a project and tag on all actions before they leave the inbox (my personal preference), choose “Both a Project and a Tag”.
It’s worth noting that this setting syncs across all of your devices. So, for example, if you apply this setting on your Mac it will also take effect on your iPad.
Indeed, I had this setting set to “both a project and a tag”. Switching to “a project” makes it behave less frustratingly. Can’t remember why I set it to “both a project and a tag” – been using OF for literally years and I guess I forgot all about this setting.
Anyway, thanks!
You’re welcome, @StrawberriePie.
It sounds like you actually had it set to “Either a Project or a Tag”. By design, this setting would cause the action to end up in “Miscellaneous” if you specified a tag, but not project. By setting it to “A Project” you’re making the tag field optional.
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