Productivity is dead; long live productivity!

A lot of the Mac users I interact with love OmniFocus, this really highly granulated, powerful task manager, but then they tend toward really simple content collection and creation apps (Yojimbo, TextEdit, Notational Velocity, etc.). 

I like OmniFocus — it was my main productivity app. And I’ve got licenses for a lot of these ‘simple apps’. (I use Notational Velocity still, particularly for its SimpleNote sync.) Sure, there’s something to be said for a a clean, simple interface that doesn’t give you anything to futz around with. 

But mostly I’ve ended up with an inverted pattern: I’ve left OmniFocus to use The Hit List, which in comparison is pretty simple (almost toyish), and slowly gravitated toward highly customizable, powerful applications for content collection and creation — tools like DevonThink Pro + Scrivener. 

I want to spend less time in my task app, and more time living in the places where I absorb good things and make stuff. If I’m gonna be tweaking a workflow, I want it to be my *work*flow, not my *figuringoutwhattoworkon*flow.

It’s a thought, anyway.