You could define flags for your categories below. Then create a todo view that shows everything in Inbox (TopLevelParent contains Inbox) plus everything that has one of those flags (Flag <> none, or set up criteria to include only those flags). Group your view by Flag.
Then use RTE to enter tasks as needed, using -fl if you want to assign a flag immediately. Otherwise, since they would go into Inbox, they will show up at the top of your view and you are forced to move or flag them to get them out of your view. Moving them to a Flag is easy -- drag and drop or right-mouse button on the flag field. To easily get other tasks into the system for processing later, you can define a task with a number at the front in your outline, and move them there out of inbox (to have them disappear from your view) with "Ctrl-m, #", or move them to a "Don't Forget" flag. The advantage of flags is that you can choose the order they show up in your view, and the labels you want on them. They aren't supported on Android though. On Android, I'm using "Goals" plus Starred for this purpose, but I have to remap the labels in my head. Hope this helps. Lisa On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Richard Collings <[email protected]>wrote: > I have almost completely abandoned MLO for the moment because I can’t make > it work for me in the context in which I currently find myself – namely a > frantic go live situation – where I am being deluged with critically urgent > tasks almost every minute. **** > > ** ** > > The problems are a) capturing these tasks; b) identifying the most > critical and putting these in some sort of order to be done today; and c) > not forgetting the other tasks.**** > > ** ** > > Maybe I missing something but I just can’t find a way of using MLO that > helps me here and I revert to using an old fashioned spiral bound notepad on > which I have pages for**** > > **· **Do now/today**** > > **· **Do this evening**** > > **· **Do later this week**** > > **· **Talk to my boss about**** > > **· **Talk to my colleague about**** > > ** ** > > When a new task comes along, I just write it on the appropriate page.**** > > ** ** > > The problem with MLO in its current form is that you add stuff in the > outline and then work out priorities and when you are going to do it. All > of which takes far too long. What I need here is the ability to *quickly > * go to a box/page/place which has a priority/name associated with it > and put the task there directly. And to then have the ability to drag > tasks between those boxes It would probably go into the Outline in the > ‘Inbox’ or some other designated place for tasks added directly in this way. > **** > > ** ** > > Which brings me to the ‘calendar’ - this would be one way of doing things > – if I could go to a particular date (eg today) and just add a task there > directly, this would be so helpful. I could then drag tasks between > days. And even split days into parts (eg critical, urgent, very high > priority, **** > > ** ** > > Incidentally, what has happened to the calendar?**** > > ** ** > > 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. > -- Lisa Stroyan www.empathic-parenting.com -- 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.
