What my problem was is that in 'next actions' filter, next action for a particular project is always chosen by outline order. I was hoping to find a way to view only one active action from every project/task in To Do, and that that action is chosen by some other criteria. I guess it can't be done.
I found your tip for sorting very helpful. Thanks, Bojan Your tip -----Original Message----- From: nschm873 [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 4:41 AM To: MyLifeOrganized Subject: [MLO] Re: Next Actions > But I don't like spending much time in the outline, the sheer number > of tasks there scare me :) . That is the reason that I am a big fan of setting bookmarks and then zooming in to just that part of the outline. Try using "set bookmarks" "goto bookmarks" "zoom in" and "zoom out" from the view menu. Outline becomes less intimidating when you are only using part of it. :) > What really bugs me is that next actions filter behaves as though all > the tasks are set to 'complete subtasks in order'. Actually group and sort in the view menu determine the order of how the tasks are listed. "Next action just shows the highest priority task" of each groups list after it have been sorted. If you want to see more than that then use the action filter "active" instead. Now if you want to change the order that the tasks are prioritized in you need to use the "sorting" filter. I agree with you on the default compute score, it never really gives me the list in the order I prefer. However, you have a whole lot of choices to play with there. I sort by "urgency descending," "importance descending" and "Due date ascending." However, I almost always keep urgency set to normal so I really only use the latter two for most of my work. I use urgency when something becomes a "hot item" to move it to the top of the list. Using those filters the only time the order in the outline matters is when two or more tasks have the same importance grade and the same due date. In that case the order of them will be the order in the outline. However, if every tasks importance value is different then the order in the outline is immaterial. On Nov 27, 6:03 pm, Bojan <[email protected]> wrote: > What really bugs me is that next actions filter behaves as though all > the tasks are set to 'complete subtasks in order'. That way if the > first subtasks has not started yet, has dependency or belongs to a > closed context none of the remaining tasks in the project will appear > in to do list. Also I think it would be much better if the next task > was selected by computed-score, or some other prioritization method. > If I want to complete subtasks in order they appear in the outline I > can always check 'complete in order' checkbox. > > The obvious solution for me would be to not to use importance/urgency > for subtasks and to always arrange them by importance in the outlline. > But I don't like spending much time in the outline, the sheer number > of tasks there scare me :) . > > Maybe someone can think of a more elegant solution, or if you never > saw this as a problem, give tips on how do you use MLO. > > Thanks, > Bojan -- 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. -- 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.
