> As to manual priorities - I don't really think it is good idea. > > Just imagine: You have thousands of tasks in your MLO > database - all waiting for your attention. And some day you > think "oh - it's good idea to complete task1 today! - and > assign it highest priority". But for some reason - you can't > complete it - and it stays until next day. Next day - you may > change your mind and prefer to complete task2 - so you will > constantly have to struggle all those old tasks. >
An interesting point which has some truth but I think there is a simple solution. Like the previous correspondant I just can't make the MLO prioritisation work for me at the detail level because the order in which I want to work on things does vary by day (and by hour) - clients phone up and need things doing urgently; I am feeling tired so I want to do some easy tasks; somebody emails me to say they want to talk about x at 4:30 today but before I can talk to them about x and I have to do w and z and so on. Trying to order these activities in MLO at the moment in this way is impossible. So my vision for the manual sorting is that one uses the broad MLO priorisation tools to bring the most important tasks to the top of the list for today but one can then drag them out of that list and put them in a manual order that makes sense for today. And then tomorrow, there is an option which says 'Clear manual list' which just puts everything back into the natural MLO order. That would be a great step forward. The next step would be to have multiple manual lists so that one can sort a set of tasks for a project into a sensible order for that project by creating a manual list for that particular project and then using drag and drop. A much better mechanism than trying to create dependencies. And finally > You can find manual priorities in Outlook TODO - it doesn't > work for me. With MLO I change the way of choosing what to do > - I influence it indirectly - by assigning it start/due date, > goal, putting it into specific place in my outline. Nooooo. Surely the whole point of having a tool like MLO is that you create an Outline that makes sense to you eg typically into some form of work breakdown structure and then **without disturbing the outline*** you switch to a different flat view which allows you to put the tasks into an order than makes sense. If you have to put the tasks into order in which you are going to do them in the outline itself, then what is the point of the ToDo view (and MLO). You can just use Word - put the tasks into an outline and then just drag the tasks out of the outline into a list in the order in which you want to do them. Richard --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
