I have had Achieve Planner on my PC for umm … well, a long time! I keep starting and stopping and starting again and then recently I came across a video course that changed the way I started thinking about using your software. You see, my fiirst big obstacle was getting it all down on paper or whereever to begin to process it. I tried creating a project and adding tasks; didn’t work for me. The video I mentioned had me perform an exercise called mind clearing. We were given an extensive list of mental triggers and asked to write down all of the tasks and such that we could think of. WOW! What a list. After that I started thinking about how I could get this information into Achieve Planner and started messing around with it again. I cam across the Quick Task Entry feature and my hope was answered. So cool! Then I came across this post. You are spot on target. Thanks for this great tool.

In this case, you’d be using that “project” as a folder rather than a real project.

Maybe the best alternative is to just allow you to specify the order you want to drop projects in?

The distinction is there to help you focus on work when you are working. It just makes it easier to filter and hide the personal stuff when you are trying to focus on work stuff.

I am about halfway through Lesson #2 in Get More Done in Less Time, and already I was inspired to clean up and rearrange my projects and tasks in OmniFocus. I reworded all of my project titles, reworded some of my next actions, and deleted quite a bit that I realized just wasn’t important (and wasn’t getting done anyway!). As a result, I already am more easily able to focus on what I actually have to do and what I actually want to do! I’m looking forward to going further with this book, and then I’ll start on the GTA course.