Omniplan vs microsoft project7/23/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() That's the beauty of OmniPlan - it allows you to see what your time looks like across multiple projects and plan ahead. OmniFocus and the Getting Things Done process is brilliant for getting you to think through the steps in each project and plan accordingly, but what it doesn't do it allow you to get a high-level picture of all of the tasks that are going on at the same time. ![]() I use both and love each of them, but I find it both redundant and frustrating to be mapping projects with OmniPlan and trying to ensure that what I have listed there fits with OmniFocus. Indeed, combining OmniFocus with OmniPlan would make for an unbeatable pairing. I'm sure this would have the writers guild users of OO turning over complaining but its just a thought. Something lighter than Filemaker, but more powerful than a spreadsheet (I think most people use a spreadsheet for a database as much as a for numbers). The discussion of future version is interesting, I would love to see OO evolve into more of a semi-structured database with strong applescript support. My solution has been to use Omni Outliner and heavy use of scripts to create "filters" for each option in each column. I really need to track things not only by project but by whom the task is assigned and of course the context. That is my exact issue with OF, the lack of either multiple contexts or tagging or adding columns. I use Bonsai right now for my GTD-type app, but for the Mac-only users, maybe Omni Outliner would work if implemented well (I am licensed for Omni Outliner but haven't explored it enough yet). Very few tools though keep things in Sync, with the exception of Mind Manager and MS Project. can enable moving or copying information from one app into another. Sometimes copy / past, import, export, save as. Hopefully this will be fixed because it is a huge limitation. The main limitation for me of Omni Focus is that there is no way to have multiple contexts, tags, or keywords easily assigned to an activity. I would use Inspiration or Mind Manager or Omnigraffle (sp) for brainstorming. I would use Omni Outliner to perhaps replace Omni Focus especially since it allows the addition of columns to an outline. I would keep my tasks in Bonsai (or Omni Focus). I would have a file for each project in Microsoft Project (or on the Mac side Omni Plan). I no longer work in corporate America, but I did for about 15 years as a programmer, database analyst, and manager of some very complex projects. A project management tool considers start and end times more, priorities, resource assignments, and things like Gant (sp) / PERT charting, things beyond a GTD-type app. It's easy to say "combine them", but then you end up with a complex tool that has too many options and different user bases. The Mac has a good implementation of Inspiration, which can show ideas graphically and in outline fashion. On Windows, MindJet's Mind Manager is much more powerful than the watered-down (dumbed-down) Mac version, and it can export very well to Microsoft Project and other tools. You bring up an excellent point about there being a lot of overlap between four different kinds of apps:ģ) Omni Outliner (flexible outliner that can be used for many different kinds of things including 1 and 2 above)Ĥ) Graphical representation of ideas linked together
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