Honestly.....I'd have to go look again; I really haven't thought about urgency in a long time. I believe after thinking about it that importance is recursive and urgency is not but I will check an make a authoritative statement. later. ( I was working in a different part of the algorithm that runs in parrallel so I didn't have to concern myself with thinking about the urgency topic)
I will say that it's highly unlikely we'll change the way urgency works because it does what it was suppose to do and and people expect it to do what it does now. So don't spend a ton of time formulating an argument; we've been through that 4 years ago. Fixing the weekly goal is the only real topic open for discussion. I'll review urgency only so much as finding the right way to fix the weekly goal issue my above thoughts were open thinking on the fly that doesn't mean they are the correct solution; just me thinking out loud; only so much as the weekly goal issue is concerned and sometimes I draw bad ideas when doing that; we sort through that when I try and implement them. Completely separate from thoughts of the weekly goal If urgency as implemented isn't to your liking you have several options: 1) Don't use the urgency slider 2) Set the preference to by importance only 3) Use the hierarchal priority method That should suffice for anyone's needs; the program has got so many different ways to tweak the priority that it is silly. And this this program has too many options already and we can't bend the algorithms to everyone's whims or the program would be unfathomable to new users. The additive approach your suggesting really isn't' in the cards for the design.; that's what the weekly goal was suppose to do and it doesn't work because it's really really hard to track it down the tree as you recurse. lots of stack space and speed issues and plenty of places to make mistakes; and it confuses people... really trust me it does; the last time we went over this everyone had trouble keeping the additive and multiplicative properties straight during the discussion and much arguing and crying occurred. I go off to think about it some more. maybe something simple and elegant will occur to me ... no promises. On Jul 15, 3:22 pm, "Richard Collings" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Bob > > Thanks for the detailed reply. I have a question and then an observation > re: > > > > > The weekly goal was an option carried over from the > > Hierarchal Method; that just got grafted into the CSA. > > > It simply affects Urgency; and it's from before the urgency > > slider was added. It was a way to make something urgent. > > It's going to be very sensitive to outline depth. It was > > designed to drive things deep in the outline to the top and > > it's a very old feature. > > Does this mean that boosting the Urgency of a top level task will also > generate a depth related boost down the tree below that task - ie that the > urgency boost of the top level task is applied recursively down the tree > (once to the top level task, twice to its children, three times to their > children and so on). > > If so, then this just doesn't work for me. Taking my example again: > > > > Project A > > > Task 1 > > > Task 2 > > > Task 3 > > > Task 4 > > If I boost the urgency of A, I would like Tasks 1, 3 and 4 to all receive > the same boost and not to suddenly find that Tasks 3 and 4 appear above Task > 1. I just cannot see the logic of this - all I have said is that A is now > more urgent. Why should Tasks 3 and 4 then suddenly become more important > than Task 1? > > If this recursive boosting is the case, then I would make a strong plea for > this behaviour to be made optional - ie: to have 'Switch off recursive > boosting' (or similar) which when ticked will result in the boost just being > applied once to the Task in question and to all the children and their > children, etc. > > Many thanks > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
