Richard, have you considered the following? I think it can fit your needs:
1) create a root item for each page you have in your notepad. You may define them as folders. They could be subtasks of the inbox, too. 2) to see all tasks of a particular notepad page, use the zoom function. You select the task/folder which stands for the notepad page and hit CTRL-R (zoom in). Then you DON'T switch to todo view but remain in outline view. You now can see all tasks of the particular notepad page in the manual order in which you created them. You can quickly reorder the tasks by using shift-alt-up and shift-alt-down. You can move the more urgent/important tasks to top. Or you can keep the unordered list if ordering takes more time than it helps. 3) If you want to change to another notepad page, simply zoom out (ctrl-alt-r), select the other root task and zoom in again. 4) If you want to move a task from one page to another, use Ctrl-M. This opens the move dialog where you can select the new parent. When the dialog opens you may want to hit F6 to collapse all items in the dialog. 5) For quickly adding a task to a particular notepad page, you may consider using MLO's great parsing feature. This is either in the rapid entry dialog with activated checkbox parse or just normal when entering a new task in outline view with alt-enter instead of only enter. In parsing there is the switch -tofolder which will make the new task a subtask of the given folder. Here you can enter as few characters from the beginning folder name ad it is deterministic in your outline, that is there is no other folder starting with the same characters. You may consider using prefixes like "NPP-today", NPP-talk- to-boss". 6) As alternative for 5) you can create Bookmarks on each notepad page item (Ctrl-alt-<number>) and jump to it with ctrl-<number> and then hit alt-ins to quickly create a subtask of this item. Maybe there is a difference whether the item is expanded or not while hitting alt-ins. 7) You may consider assigning a shortcut for the rapid entry dialog (for e.g. Windows-backslash) which actually listens even if MLO is not the active application. 8) you can mark a task as completed by selecting the task and hitting space or just remove the task by hitting del. 9) you may consider using quick navigation: if you are in the outline while not editing a task just begin typing the notepad page folder name. this jumps to the next item that begins with the typed characters. I think MLO is just so mighty that it can support you doing your job better than using notepad. Hope that helps. What do you think? Regards ====== Bedrudin On 5 Sep., 23:18, "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.
