On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 1:51 AM, Tomasz Melcer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > For a week I tried to use GTG to organize my projects. Overally I feel > it helped me much, but still I have to find ways to apply some of my > work habits to GTG. > I'm no expert, but since this is a mailing list I'm free to answer. Thanks in advance for the review ! > > Task requirements. Some tasks can only be done in specific places, like > home or work. Other need specific facilities, like access to the > Internet. Work view is a good idea, but it shows too much things for me. > My solution for that is to make tags like @home, @work, @shop, > @shop:grocery (subtag of @shop), @net (all things that need access to > the Internet), @person:john_smith (subtag of @net, because I can contact > him by email). But I still have some issues: > * How to check which tasks can be done when being at home and having > connection to the Internet? (@home, @net) I can browse through tags, but > I'd like to simply see everything possible in one place. > Search ? RTM has smartlists for this, which are just saved search queries. If the feature isn't there yet, you can add a feature request or implement it yourself. > * How to make a task require both @home and @net? > Give it 2 tags: @home and @net > * How to identify things that don't have any of these tags (but might > have other tags, like related to projects they belong to)? I.e. a task > might already have a tag @journey_to_Japan, so it wont be visible in the > category "Tasks without tags". > Strange example, why tag something with @journey_to_Japan ? If you use the @ prefix for context, you shouldn't use it to tag projects. Why not use the # prefix ? Then you can get a project list by searching for # or by sorting the tags alphabetically. > > Task templates. I run a series of lectures at my university. For each > lecture I need to do a (fixed) set of tasks, there's almost 40 of them > (http://files.exroot.org/dump/tasks.png) with a complex dependency > relations. This set of tasks needs to be repeated for each lecture. I > don't want to reenter all the tasks by hand each time. To solve this > problem I wrote a simple python script to import a set of tasks from a > custom text format. A better solution would be to firstly prepare a > "template" inside GTG, then make a deep copy of it -- a good idea for a > plugin, I guess. Is there another way to do this? > Seems like a good workaround, and perhaps it can be converted into a plugin already, and then extended later ? > > Projects and tasks. My projects usually contain one or more tasks and a > repository of data (documents, links). Going from a task to its project > repository should be easy... but now it would involve making a link from > each task by hand. > There's no "list" concept, which I miss as well. But I think that's on the roadmap. > > Task names. My tasks are often very similar across different projects. > For example I might need to make a reservation for a room for two > different lectures. Now to distinguish both tasks I would have to place > a project's name (in this case, a lecture name) into tasks' titles, but > I often forget about that when creating tasks. From what I see, to > identify which project a given task belongs to, I always need to place > project's name into the task title. I don't want to use tags for that, > because I use them now for task requirements (if I started doing so, I'd > lose the possibility to list all tasks without requirements). > A list concept would help, but you can also use tag prefixes, like the ~ prefix for task requirements... > > Tomasz Melcer > Tom Van Braeckel > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: > https://launchpad.net/~gtg-user<https://launchpad.net/%7Egtg-user> > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : > https://launchpad.net/~gtg-user<https://launchpad.net/%7Egtg-user> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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