Hi Vicki, I will answer your second question first. Yes you can add notes via the Rapid Task Entry dialog box. Select Tools/Options/Rapid Task Entry dialog. There you will find a check box titled, "Place additional text in task note if text entered is greater than X", where X is a number that you choose. For example if you want no more than 40 characters in your task title, choose 40 and every character after that will show up in Notes for that task. This will only work in the Rapid Task Entry dialog box if you have unchecked the Multiple task entry check box. In other words, you can either use the Rapid Task Entry dialog box to enter multiple task without notes, or enter a single task with notes.
On your first question let me restate what I think you want the Rapid Task Entry dialog to do. You are looking to enter multiple tasks, and at the same time position those tasks in your outline using the Rapid Task Entry dialog. Is my understanding correct? If so, then the answer is "no" it cannot do that. I think for it to do what you want, you would have to do the following: 1. first enter multiple tasks 2. then go back to each task and select a different parent for each task. As it stands right now, you can enter a single task, select a parent, and then move on to your next task in pretty rapid fashion. Or if you have multiple tasks that have the same parent, you can rapid enter those multiple tasks via the Rapid Task Entry dialog box and assign them the appropriate parent. What you are requesting the Rapid Task Entry dialog to do, doesn't seem too rapid to me. IMHO it would much quicker to enter those tasks directly into the Outline view if you wish to enter multiple tasks and assign them a place in your outline all at once. The way you are using it now, using a default parent of "to be filed", is the way I believe this dialog box was intended to be used. If you are working in an application other than MLO, and you think of something that needs to be done, open the Rapid Task Entry dialog and quick dash down the pertinent facts. Later on, go to your "to be filed" parent task, and drag and drop all of those tasks to their relevant parent in your outline. Followers of the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology will recognize using the Rapid Task Entry dialog as the "Collection" phase. Later on when you are dragging your collected tasks to their appropriate parent, you are now in the "Process" phase. GTD tenets would suggest that you keep the Collection and Process phases separate, but MLO does allow you to combine those 2 phases when using the Rapid Task Entry dialog. Best regards, Ron On Jan 14, 11:06 am, Victoria Macklin <[email protected]> wrote: > 2 things I really feel rte is lacking (or if you can do it - please > tell me how?) > > 1). you can add a context, but you cannot add parent (unless you > select the parent then add all the tasks to the same parent) therefore > I tend to use a default parent ("to be filed") and then I later go in > and drag and drop all my tasks to the relevant parent > > 2). you cannot add notes. Sometimes I have more info that I would like > to add, but dont want to make the title too long. I then have to go > back later and add the notes to each task. Would be great if there was > a switch to denote everything following should go in the notes section > > So, unless you can already do the above (and I just haven't figured > out how). Can we have a parent switch and a notes switch, so each line > can have this info in if we need it? > > Cheers, > > Vicki
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