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Spotlight search in iOS reveals tags in OmniFocus 3. Behold:

So you can search for “Hardware Store” if that’s one of your tags when you pull into the lot, and tapping the result takes you to the list of things you intended to pick up.

Didn’t know all of these iPad/iOS gestures… very cool.

Six iPad Gestures

HeyScottyJ:

The more I thought about Tags, the more I also thought that Tags, for me, are not a criteria, they’re a list. In other words, my actual usage of OmniFocus taught me that what I really want to see are lists. And yes, one can build all kinds of amazing and capable advanced perspectives in OmniFocus 3, but more often, I’m clicking a Tag to show me all the Email I need to write, or all the things that concern Susan.

This comports neatly with my desire for tags in OmniFocus back when Things 2 had them, and OmniFocus 2 was religious about one context per action.

Me, back in 2016:

Friction in OmniFocus, for me, came from the context limitation: you can only assign one context to a task. This makes perfect sense in terms of the action required to complete a task (Is it a phone call? Is it writing? Am I waiting?). It makes less sense, though, because the modern nature of work is different than it used to be. Yes, some things I can only do at the office, but I can pretty much write anywhere, email anywhere, and read anywhere. Tags like “@online” don’t mean what they used to, when you had an internet connection in one place, on one computer, on your desk. I can be online just about all the time now.

With Things, you can make tags function as contexts, but you can assign as many as you like. For example, I meet with my director once a month on Thursday formally, so I will tag agenda items with “Thursday Meetings” and her name, so that if I find myself in a situation where I have her time and attention, I can jump ahead and discuss the issue, well before before the meeting. Likewise, I will tag items with an administrator’s name and the school they work in, so that I can bring up the item if they call me, or I find myself in their office; if I’m in the building, however, and want to see what I business I have in the school itself, I can see that task associated with the building, not only as dependent upon the administrator.

Another clever use of this might be to tag an item you need to pick up as an “@errand” and also tag it as “groceries” or “hardware store” or another specific location. In OmniFocus, you otherwise get into creating subtasks of a context, which isn’t terrible if the relationship is parent/child (i.e. errands > pharmacy), but it doesn’t work for parallel relationships (a principal isn’t necessary bound to the building–you could email or talk by phone–nor is a building bound to a person).

OmniFocus 3 Tags are Lists

Matthew Panzarino, via Michael Tsai:

Apple needs to unleash itself from the shackles of a unified iOS. They don’t have to feel exactly the same now, because the user base is not an infantile one. They’ve been weaned on it — now give them solid food.

The iPad is nanometers away from replacing laptops for so many users. I could probably walk away from a computer myself save for specific work tasks.

That’s not the whole story, though; I think for so many Mac power users, the notion of something that approximates or integrates macOS (OS X, in the old days) in a tablet form would have been a welcome advance in 2010, and would be now. Mac users love macOS. We’d love to use it on a tablet, too.

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