The new color-coding is great, and drag-and-drop in the To Do list is a great idea. When I first saw it, I thought it was a dream come true -- I have *long* wanted to be able to rearrange the small list of tasks that was due Today so that I could have a list in the order I needed it to be in.
I have to be honest that I am completely baffled at how the current functionality is set up for the drag-and-drop. Say, for example, that I have the To do list sorted by "importance". If I drag an item to the top of the list, I expect from a UI standpoint that it will now be the most important item in the list. However, it turns out that I have also moved it to the top of my overall outline! Sorry, but this makes no sense whatsoever! I have an outline that contains over 400 items, and I use Due Dates and Weekly Goals to winnow it down to a mangeable "Today" list...if dragging around my Today list changes my outline, it will lead, as Richard pointed out, to utter confusion in my outline. I think part of this confusion stems from the way that the "sort" options are labeled on the Filter panel. The top option reads "(none)", which implies to me that it is an unsorted list -- which it isn't. In MLO, the correct name for the "(none)" sorting option is actually "Outline View" My suggestion (actually, my plea!) is to decouple the outline and the Todo list, or to at least offer that option. I can see some users wanting the functionality exactly like it is...and I can see others (like myself, Richard, and I'm sure others) that would want to reorder the Todo list separately from the Outline view. This would free me forever from having to do squirelly things to reorder the Todo list -- like endlessly fiddling with the Importance and Urgency sliders just to get the final order that I want! I've seen this functionality in other to-do programs, so it certainly seems possible. For example, Agenda At Once, Vitalist, and EssentialPIM all have the capability to re-order an already-sorted list by hand. (They are also very, very inferior to MLO, so I would like very much for MLO to have this capacity!) Andrey, is there any chance that this would be possible to do since you have the new architecture implemented? thanks for all the work on the new version! Nick On Jan 3, 9:59 am, "Richard Collings" <[email protected]> wrote: > But without moving the tasks in the Outline hierarchy? Yes? > > The more I thought about it, the more 'wrong' this seemed. If I am > working on two or three projects (which is fairly typical) what I want to be > able to do with MLO is order these tasks manually in the To Do lists without > the tasks that belong to one project moving to a different project (which > would result in utter confusion). > > Richard > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of pkelecy > > Sent: 03 January 2009 2:33 p > > To: MyLifeOrganized > > Subject: [MLO] Re: Drag and Drop in To Do list - how does this work? > > > I agree with Richard on this. I too would like some way to > > manually order the tasks in the To-do to accommodate my > > particular needs for the day. Right now I do this in outside > > of MLO because I find the Importance/Urgency slides a little > > too awkward to use. > > > Pat --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
