Grant, I forgot to mention that my personal Filter setting preference is Today + 30, Group by Due Date, Sort by Due Date then by Computed- Score. You may want to try this as your preference seemed to be the same as mine.
Cheers! On Sep 5, 11:15 pm, "T Gaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
