Hmmm. Some questions: 1. What order will the tasks be in when you first switch to Manual sort?
2. What happens when you (say) change the context in the Manual Sort view such that those tasks that were on display are filtered out; but a whole stack of new tasks appears - what order will these be in. 3 And having (say) manually sorted these tasks into a manual order, you change the context again such that you have a mixture of tasks from both the previous manual sorts. How will they be ordered relative to each other. I also think that an option to 'cancel' your current manual sort will be needed - where the list reverts back to its state as per Question 1 above. I am not being negative - I am just not sure that Manual sort is just another sort. I think it is something that you will need to 'layer' on top of your current auto sort in some way. Richard > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrey > Tkachuk (MLO) > Sent: 15 January 2009 11:28 a > To: MyLifeOrganized > Subject: [MLO] Re: Drag and Drop in To Do list - how does this work? > > > > Nick, > > Thanks for your ideas! I like them. > > I almost decided how to combine these two ideas of "custom > lists" and "automatic lists". For example if you start > dragging in "automatic list" MLO might ask if you want to > switch to "Manual Sort" for this list. After re-arranging the > tasks manually you can switch back to "automatic list" for a > moment by selecting the sort order (Outline sort, > Alphabetical sort etc.) and then return back to "Manual Sort" > which will be preserved ( I think I know how to implement it > :-) ). All new tasks will be added to the END of the list if > "Manual Sort" is selected for this list. > > There are still questions how these Manual Sorted list will > be synced with other files.... > > Andrey. > > On Jan 13, 1:45 am, metroboy <[email protected]> wrote: > > Andrey, thanks for your thoughts -- I'm also glad to hear > that you are > > on the case! > > > > I can appreciate that this is a pretty intractable problem > > programming- wise. Your "custom task lists" is one good > idea. Here's > > another possible set of sort option functions that might be > reasonably > > easy to implement, and could help eliminate some of the confusion > > about the new drag-and-drop functionality. > > > > 1) The "(none)" sort option is renamed to "outline order" (or > > something similar). Dragging-and-dropping would function > in this sort > > option just like it does in the current version, and would > move items > > to a different point not only in the To-Do List, but in the outline > > order as well. (this option would cover the small lists that BOC > > mentioned) > > > > 2) For all other current sort parameters (importance, urgency, due > > date, etc.), no dragging-and-dropping would be allowed, > because of the > > difficulties it would cause in recomputing everything on > the fly (as > > Andrey mentioned). This would be the same functionality as in the > > previous version of MLO. > > > > 3) A new sort option would be added -- "Manual Sort". This would > > create a separate list that would be decoupled from the outline; > > therefore, dragging-and-dropping in this list would not affect the > > outline order. This separate list would be persistent only > until one > > of the other sort options is chosen -- then it would disappear > > completely, and wouldn't need to be saved at all. (In other words, > > this option would allow dragging-and-dropping only within the To-Do > > list, and would be overridden as soon as another sort > option for the > > To-Do list was chosen.) > > > > This "Manual Sort" option would really help me polish my GTD > > implementation. Currently I mark Next Actions in the > outline (using > > Weekly Goals), and then select a subset of these Next Actions to do > > today (using Due Dates). The problem is that I'm left with 7 to 10 > > items in my "Today" list, and no good way to order them (other than > > fiddling with the Importance and Urgency sliders). If I > could turn on > > "Manual Sort" and drag-and-drop my items to the correct > order, I'd be > > a happy guy -- there would be no need to scan every item > every time I > > looked at my To-Do list! > > > > thanks for considering this, > > > > Nick > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
