Using Outliner to find out what you have to do "today"

[Kathi Bade]

I'm new to Omni Outliner and to this list.  If I am using it 
incorrectly, I apologize in advance - and someone please let me know 
so I don't do it again!  :-)

I used to own another program called In Control that was both an 
outliner and a scheduler.  The company that produced it [Attain] went 
belly up sometime in the 90's, but being a Mac program, it continued 
to work through the Y2K transition and all the way through OS 9.  I'm 
not interested in running 9 in Classic mode, so when I got my new G5 
in the office, I abandoned the best piece of software I ever used and 
tried to find a replacement.

I haven't found any program that was both a scheduler and an 
outliner, but of all the plain outliner software I looked at for OS 
X, I liked Outliner the best so I bought it.

I have folders set up for about 20 things I have to monitor / work on 
regularly.  But I haven't figured out how to make it tell me which 
tasks are due "today" without opening each folder, sorting by date, 
and seeing if anything is due "today".  That's a lot of overhead.

I emailed James a lot during the process of deciding which program to 
buy, and he was really helpful.  He knew a mechanism that could be 
used to enhance Outliner to allow a sort by date across all folders, 
and I've suggested to him that Omni add it to a future release.

In the meantime - how do the rest of you use Outliner to tell you 
which projects need something done "today"?

Thanks so much for your insights.

Best regards,

-- 
Kathi Bade, User Support Coordinator-Lending Services
Library Connection
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