I have sort of figured out the problem. And it is not a bug as I earlier thought. The solution made sense when relating it to Ron's explanation (if he only explained it further). But figuring out the solution is not as obviious as you have to play around the software to get to know how the software works better.
The trick is in the Filter of the TO DO panel. It is the Filter that controls what is displayed and what is not displayed. If your schedule is 3:00pm today and your current time is 12:00pm, it means your appointed schedule is not yet due until 3:00pm actually arrives. That is what the Active Actions Filter is currenty setup. Now, click on the preset of the Start Date and seletct any one option other than clear. By doing this, you are telling the software to show all entries with a Start Date of Today to the next nth days inclusive. You will also notice that your selection will appear in the To: field of the *Start Date*, for example, Today + 3. Going further, you can change this to Today + 30 yourself to display your entries within the next 30 days period. Notice that once you tamper with the Filter, you will see an * right in front of the active Filter, *Active Actions (for example). The * tells you that you have have changes to the current active filter. If you liked the changes that you made, you can then save your settings by clicking on the Save Settings close to the bottom of the filter column and save your setting as another name. Do not save it as Active Actions as the Active Actions will serve as your base template filter in the future. If you do not like your new setting, simply click on the Reset Settings to revert back to the 'original' setting of your current filter. Gee, I should be hired as 'Tech Support' for MLO. On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Uwe, > > OK, that is how you use it. But its a work around indeed. > > The fact is, MLO includes a feature for times, and even by GTD a fixed > landscape (scheduled todo) can have a time. Note also, I have the > problem with tasks with just dates, and no time. So I expect to be > able to do so and have it work logically. Now maybe I do not > understand the logic of MLO... > > My logic is, > - that if all urgencies and dependencies are set to the same, and I > tell MLO to reset the computed scores, then all tasks, even those with > a date (and optionally a time) should also have their computed scores > set to 1, and then be listed spread among the other tasks by the > default sort order, which is the order they occur in the outline. > - But MLO does not do that, it computes a score for items with a > fixed date and/or time > - If that is the case, then I would expect all items with a fixed date > to have a computed score higher than all the tasks that do not > (assuming they have all been reset to 1). > - But they do not. Some are have a computed score above 1, and some > under. Those with a score above one, usually often active, but just > as many are not. Also, if I make a list of tasks, and give them a > sequence of dates, theyhave a computed score higher than one and some > lower. > > Thus, I do not see the logic, and for sure the way it works it is not > offering any useful task management functionality. > > So, again, if anyone can help me either understand, or get the scores > to compute logically, or something (even to say indeed there is > something that could be programmed better here to make it more > useful), I would be ver y happy. > > On Sep 1, 12:07 pm, Uwe Holst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Zitat von Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > > > > > > > This is a real problem for me - at least it does not seem natural. I > > > need to see at a glance what I have to to do today, and many of those > > > things are meeting with a start and end time, so I give them a data > > > and start and due date. Those with start times later in the day are > > > not visible, or come in at the bottom of the list, if I do what tito > > > does. IT seems really odd to me that something that will happen today > > > gets a less than one computed score. I have even use the computed > > > score reset to try to set all equal, but it does not affect tasks with > > > dates and times. I really think it should be part of the default > > > active task view that these come in higher up. I have tried giving > > > starting date more priority, etc and that does not help. Also, some > > > items with start times later do turn up with a higher priority and I > > > have no idea why. > > > > > HELP - until I understand this I can not trust MLO to guide me through > > > my day!!! > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > Grant > > > > Moin moin, > > > > I use no time for the meetings, just the day. In the text of the task > > there is the time and the location of the meeting. REMINDER is set to > > about 15 Minutes before the meeting. > > > > Remenber that mlo is conceptional no calendar! For me it's a > > workaround cause I like too use ONE application for contacts, calendar > > and tasks. You CAN do all this with mlo, but never expect it to be > > perfect in that manner. > > > > Gr-eetings - Uwe > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" 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/myLifeOrganized?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
