The major limiting factor for me getting something done is facing a massive list, or worse, an empty list with a massive project as the title. “Get new job - 0 subtasks”.
I begrudgingly stick with OmniFocus because it’s extremely effective at hiding things from me until I could actually do it, but it’s probably the most robotic solution I could think of haha. I’m at least a little more likely to try breaking something down if I don’t have to look at the massive list until things are relevant.
Kind of ties into #7, but one thing every task manager is missing something to keep the completed task… artefacts? Like 80% of the tasks I have end up with some sort of digital receipt, let me keep those in there too. You could even reference artefacts in other tasks as a way to hide them until you have the artefact from some prior task(s). Easy way to reference things.
I begrudgingly stick with OmniFocus because it’s extremely effective at hiding things from me until I could actually do it, but it’s probably the most robotic solution I could think of haha. I’m at least a little more likely to try breaking something down if I don’t have to look at the massive list until things are relevant.
Kind of ties into #7, but one thing every task manager is missing something to keep the completed task… artefacts? Like 80% of the tasks I have end up with some sort of digital receipt, let me keep those in there too. You could even reference artefacts in other tasks as a way to hide them until you have the artefact from some prior task(s). Easy way to reference things.
This sounds like a makefile… oh no.