Hi,
I am an OmniFocus user that uses Doit.im for work.
Even though I am far from have transfered everything into Doit.im it piles up.
I have seen people writing about Multilevel folder, this is a similar request.
Why is this important, well if I have more than 15 projects they get all pilled up. I would like to have them chunked by adding folders.
I see you are pointing towards using goals. This is not the right way because of following
1) Its not the right GTD application. Its cheating.... ;) Goals is not always a couple of projects.
2) Ok I could scroll through the goals instead, but I would still have a loooong project list in my left column. Then the project list would be unused which is bad.
Thanks,
Emil
Ps. I am attaching an OmniFocus screenshot.
Well, I am all for a flexible hierarchy. Then people can use it as they wish.
But since there is quite of lot of "strange" understandings of GTD here at Doit, I'd like to point out:
Building a meticulous categorization of projects by "subject matter" as shown in the screenshots (clothes, clocks, feet, hairstyle, funerals etc) definitely is nothing that David Allen has ever recommended. On the contrary, he goes to the other extreme, and says he prefers exactly the loooong impenetrable list of projects that you and I apparently both dislike.
But what he does talk about is his horizons (levels) - runway, projects, areas of responsibility, goals, visions and purpose.
The goal (30k horizon) is very often a "super-project" - a big, concrete thing that you aim to have completed in a few years' time. These often contain several individual projects (10k horizon). So I think you are way off the mark when you call this "cheating". It is not. But you are perfectly right that there is no continuation in Doit for the 40k-50k levels. In my own opinion this is OK, because at those levels it would not seem meaningful for me to represent it hierarchically anymore, and I personally have no need to keep that in my task app anyway.
But let's turn to something more interesting and closer to what you are suggesting. David Allen talks about Areas of Responsibility (aka Areas of Focus) (20k horizon). These are the "roles" that you have defined for yourself, e.g. Father, Husband, Gardener etc. in your personal sphere. I find it very useful to collect my single actions (that do not belong to a project) in a folder for each such AoR. All in all I currently use 10 AoRs. I use Doit's Projects as containers for these (and I name them in a special way in order to see that this is not a real project but an AoR single task container).
David Allen also talks about groups of AoRs, for example Private versus Work, and recommends you keep it very clear which group each AoR belongs to. I currently have 3 groups of AoRs (Business, Non-Profit, Personal). I use Doit's Goals to represent them, and each one of these contains both a few AoR single task containers and a bunch of real projects. And besides these three AoR group "goals" I also have two real major concrete goals (both of them are new business startup ventures) which means I have five Doit Goals all in all.
As I said, I would have no objection at all if Doit were to expand its hierarchical flexibility and number of levels. It would be good. But I am quite satisfied as it is. (And I always keep my loooong projects list closed, even today ;-)