I find Stars to be very useful if you have a large number of active tasks with relatively high priority and similar or no due dates. Let's say in reviewing my days activities to come, I have 5 high priority items I really want to get done, out of 30 or so on the list, I could use stars to highlight the absolute must do's. There is a natural tendency to put too many tasks on the same day or the same priority. You can use Stars to create a hard list of must do's. If you're using GTD, you could also use Stars for the sole purpose of identifying next actions in your projects since ToDo doesn't have a Next Action category - you could use tags but stars are easier. Also GTD doesn't really promote the use of Due Dates - those are supposed to go in your calendar , although I certainly use them in ToDo. In short if you have a lot of tasks, stars are the quickest and best way to draw attention to a task. Personally, I don't like the idea of adjusting priority to draw attention to something, priorities can change for real but they probably shouldn't most of the time. I also like being able to quickly go down my Focus list in the morning and just Star the 3 items I want to do for sure instead of trying to manipulate priority and Due dates to force them to the top of the list. Once I get those 3 out of the way, I quickly go through the list and Star 3 more, etc. Keeps me from being overwhelmed with the stuff I need to do.
Chris On Feb 16, 1:14 pm, Wayne Mesard <[email protected]> wrote: > Thinking about (and agreeing with) FiatDino's comments about how much we > appreciate Appigo's use of Occam's Razor in interface design; I got to > wondering the following... > > How do people use stars? I know it's a common feature request and most task > managers have it; so I understand that Appigo had little choice but to add > it. But I don't see the point. Every use of it I've seen/heard about, > could just as easily have been done with priority="High[est]". Or maybe > due-date="Today" or "Yesterday"; or tag="Active". > > I don't get it. > > Wayne(); -- Learn more about Todo (task management made simple), Notebook (notes available everywhere), and AccuFuel (fuel efficiency tracker) on Appigo's website: http://www.appigo.com/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Appigo Todo" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/appigo-todo?hl=en
