Strategy Request from a Newby

[Rod Holmes]

Hi all,

I downloaded Omni Outliner yesterday and have absolutely fallen in love 
with it. It's the first outline software I've ever used. I've already 
moved much of my work from other apps (no more forcing Excel and 
FileMaker through hoops) to Outliner--it just works better for how I 
work and think.

Two jobs I switched immediately to Outliner are: 1) Taking notes at 
meetings 'n such. 2) Managing my ToDo list(s).

The note-taking system is pretty simple. I've got one "Notes" directory 
in my "Documents" folder. I'll have a separate document for each 
meeting/phone call/seminar (rather than one per day) with the date and 
title (2003.01.17_Bob_Meeting) in the document name.

However, I'm hoping to get some suggestion on how to set up a ToDo 
system. My only requirement of a system is that I can keep a history of 
what I've done. I was thinking I'd "Save as..." my ToDo list every 
morning with the date (2003.01.17_ToDo) and then delete the items that 
are finished on the first level basis. But that's a fairly manual way 
to do things.

So, any other system suggestions? I can feel that Outliner is going to 
be a considerable part of my "iLife" and I hope to get things set up 
well from the start.

Thanks for the advice AND for a wonderful, wonderful product.

Regards,
Rod


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Rod Holmes
      Managing Partner - Eight13 LLC
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