>From what I understand you have said Roger, the automatic formatting rules should solve your issues, if you have the Professional Edition. (Tools/Options/Automating Formatting).
For the first issue, just create a new rule with the condition that a task has a certain colour (text/background/side bar/ highlight) or even format (font/emboldened etc) when either the creation date is within X days, or the start date is within X days. Or you could have apply an icon to these tasks which says "NEW", in which case in your todo list, you'd have to add in a column to show task icons of course. As for your second issue, I'd recomend the following (although everyone will have a different way of doing this). Create a category called 'waiting for', as you have done. Then create an automatic formatting rule that gives tasks with this category a specific format (grey background? or bright red text? etc). (Be careful of where you put it as these formatting rules are done in order and you don't want it over-written by another rule.) Then go into the contexts editor and assign a hot key (say, 'alt W') to this category. What you'll have is that any for task that is in 'waiting for' mode, simply press 'alt W' and the format of the task will toggle 'Waiting For' format on and off. By the way, there's a free programme called IcoFX which you can use to create icons from pictures saved from the internet and just drop these new icons into the MLO icon folder if you need additional icons - I use it all the time. -- 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.
