I do exactly what you are trying to do, I just don’t do it the way you are trying to solve it.
There are three ways that I am aware of to “group” tasks into work categories: you can define your categories as “projects,” you can define them as “top level parents” or you can define them as “contexts.” I use contexts. As I mentioned recently I have 6 work category contexts. You can then have a task in your main outline for each of these work categories so that subtasks under them inherit that context. I then have 6 individual ToDo views that only show tasks with that context. My main active ToDo view also groups by context. When you are working on tasks by time you can simply open up a ToDo view with only that context category of tasks. Now I’ll give you an example of how I keep checklists from cluttering up my “active view”. I create a checklist task with all of the items under it. I mark the checklist as “complete subtasks in order” I then assign the checklist task the context “routine”. I then have a ToDo view for just the routine context that has an “available” instead of “active” ToDo view. So in my main active view I only see one checklist item (I usually have a “start checklist” task at the top) and in the specific routine context ToDo view, I see all the items and I can do them in any order I desire. One other point, go into “Options” -> “To Do List format” and change the “task” -> “path” depth to 1. Then change the start and end strings to “[“ and “]”. Then you will see just the parent task in the path. That really helped me… And sorry but I answered your “all” question in your other post. On Jan 23, 8:24 am, Richard C <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok. The broader context to this is that I have a number of 'Tasks' > which are really folders (but can't be, because folders don't appear > in the ToDoview) where I put lower priority tasks to consider doing > at particular points in the day/week. > > What I want is for this top level folder/task (eg 'Review early > evening tasks') to appear in my generalviewwhich is a vanilla Active > Tasksview(with the 'Include closed contexts' box not ticked. > Therefore the key requirement for me (which I didn't mention > previously) is that the solution needs to work with the Active filter > because I don't want to fiddle about with the filter on thisview > > To put it another way, I want a mechanism that allows me to mark a > task with 'Do not make the children of this task active' > > There are two reasons for wanting theparentto appear and not the > children: > a) so as not to clutter my mainviewwith the smaller, lower priority > tasks which tend to end up in these folders > b) so that I can tick the 'Review early evening tasks' (which is a > recurring task) done without needing to navigate to the Outlineview > (and then back again) > > And I then want anotherview, which I can navigate to, to review > these tasks. > > It feels to me that this might not be an unusual requirement - > effectively to say to MLO: don't go any lower than this task when > considering what to make active in this branch of the tree (the tasks > below here are just memoranda) > > And I still can't get tasks marked with 'Hide the branch in the ToDo' > to appear in the 'All'view > > Richard > > On Jan 17, 5:02 pm, Lisa Stroyan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > At 11:06 AM 1/16/2010, you wrote: > > > >I have a number of MLO tasks which I use as place holders and under > > >which I add various tasks to do at that particular time. > > > I'm sure there is a way to get this to do what you want, but if you > > tell us the goal, there might be a much cleaner implementation if you > > are willing to experiment. Are you trying to have different > > "contexts" (not MLO contexts, but different categories of work that > > you switch between?) Or is it time-based? Can you clarify your work model? > > > >I would like to just see the top level task in my normal working > > >viewbut then be able to switch to anotherviewwhere I can see the > > >sub-tasks but I can't find a way of doing this. > > > Have you tried your various ideas below but with the top-level task > > as a project? It seems then you could do a projectview, and a > > contextview. If you make the project into a Context as well, then > > you can have those items pick up theparentcontext, and have the > > views based on context instead of TopLevelParent. > > > > If I use a closed context to hide the sub-tasks in the working > > >view(which doesn't show tasks where the context is closed), then > > > theparenttask does not appear in the WorkingView(even thought > > > it doesn't have the closed context assigned) > > > Have you tried doing this with the Action Filter set to All? Because > > a task that has incomplete subtasks is not Active, I don't think. > > > >If I set the Hide the Branch in To Do flag on the child tasks, then > > >there does not appear to be anyway of getting these to appear in the > > >ToDoview- even setting the Action Filter to All does not work (as > > >it seems to still filter out tasks with the Hide in Branch flag set) > > > Not for me. I can create aviewthat shows everything I've got - > > they are grayed but present. But I don't think HideInTodo is really > > want you want, because they really are tasks for you. > > > If you are committed to doing this with your current structure, what > > I would suggest is a wide-openviewthat shows everything, and then > > slowly add rules that filter out what you want. Go to "Manage > > Views"; create a newview; change Action Filter to All. > > > Lisa > > > ---------- > > Lisa Stroyan, mailto:[email protected] -- 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.
