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65: Goals Are Dumb

Cortex

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Using Magic Variables in Workflow

In Omni focus, there's a way that I can kind of trick it, which is to have fake sub projects and then have things listed under these fake sub projects. Those aren't real projects in the system. But I do, I don't like the lack of clarity where I'm looking at the list. And when I first saw the headings, I thought, oh, this is dumb. I'll never use this. It turns out actually one of my favorite things in that app. The headings is great and it's so visually nice. So with this things automation, I can create a templateable project that I can run," he said.

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