Really pleased to hear that you are 'on the case' Andrey (UK expression meaning 'working on/thinking about the problem', if anybody is not familiar).
I can see that this is not an easy problem to solve but your idea about custom lists sounds like it might work. Need to think about it a bit more. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrey > Tkachuk (MLO) > Sent: 11 January 2009 8:37 p > To: MyLifeOrganized > Subject: [MLO] Re: Drag and Drop in To Do list - how does this work? > > > > When you drag&drop tasks on To-Do now you actually drag and > drop them in the Outline. The tasks in TO-DO just used as > "anchors" to regroup tasks in the outline. You can also drop > to groups and change parameters of the tasks by this. This is > how it works at the moment. I understand the possible > confusion. I might think of disabling this functionality to > not confuse the new users.... So it will be not possible to > drag&drop in To-Do in this case.... > > >Andrey, is there any chance that this would be possible to > do since you > >have the new architecture implemented? > > Unfortunately it is very difficult to design. > > First of all it is not possible to calculate new task > parameters after the drag operation to match new position > since the sort order might depend on different criteria. > > If we are talking about setting custom order for the tasks in > To-Do we will have other problems. It actually means that > separated list should be created and the custom order of all > tasks in this list should be stored in the database. It means > that this list will become "fixed" automatically and it could > not be updated once other tasks changed, completed etc. As > you know the To-Do lists in MLO are automatically updated and > reordered. It is not possible for the same list to be > automatically updated one moment and custom ordered in other > moment. The list should be either a) automatically ordered or > b) custom ordered and with fixed tasks which are not removed > and included to the list automatically. > > If there are programmers here they will understand the > difficulties I am talking about. > > However as always there are ideas :-) What if we do introduce > the custom lists of tasks? User would be able to select the > tasks he/she want to see in one list and sort them manually. > The automatic reordering of this list will not be possible, > but user will be able to include/exclude tasks from the list > and order them manually. > > Thinking about this for many months already... > > A. > > On Jan 11, 10:51 pm, metroboy <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
