Yes I still use this product for my long-term personal projects. I believe it’s the best software you can find for Windows platform, and I use the professional version.

Hope this helps!

Welcome to my blog! It’s good to finally see you here!

You’re right about everything in the Outliner being a task or a project, but just like yourself I’ve made most of the global areas to be projects.

The thing you’ll find useful is that in the task properties you can tick an option on to hide this particular task from the To-Do view – this way general category placeholders like “Family” or “Business and Career”, will be hidden, while actions and real tasks from them will be shown as usual.

Good luck, and please let me know how you progress with the tool! I’ve honestly found it to be one of the most useful ones around so far.

I saw one point that I don’t like much. It is that every record in Outliner should be the task. Even such a global area as “Business and Career” or “Family” is not a container for tasks and projects but a task itself.

But this also could be the good side. Now I though that there should not be just a “Family” container. “Family” should also be the project with defined goals, for a year may be. You can define it and then with time set more precise goals. When it finishes you will setup new project with new goals for you in your family.