Dwight, thanks for joining in! Thanks for the detailed descriptions of what you do now to make your reviews manageable, and what parts of the process are causing you pain. I'm still learning the desktop version of MLO, so I haven't even encountered a lot of the things that you and the other MLO veterans have been working around.
It would be up to the developers to get it right, of course, but I think the Review tab would always preserve your current filters and your place in the list when modifying items. The review should be a snapshot (probably a flat list or a grouped list) of everything as it was when you started the review. The reason you don't want the list live-updating is that you might make one change that ripples throughout the system, causing many items to disappear before you've had a chance to review them. (Of course, there could always be a checkbox to hide those items if you know it's safe to skip over them.) I can think of a couple really straightforward user interfaces off the top of my head: 1. Click the Review tab, set up your filters, and click the Refresh button to get your snapshot. 2. Click on an item in the Review to see its notes and Properties (just like clicking on the item in the Outline). Edit any properties. If you edit the item such that it no longer passes the filter, it would remain in the Review list, but its text would turn gray or red. 3. Double-click on the item to jump to that item in the Outline tab. >From there, you can move it around in the outline. 4. Once you're done moving it around, click the Review tab--everything is the same as it was before you double-clicked. 5. If you're done reviewing the item, check it off in the Review tab and move onto the next item. It would be even better if you could just pop open a review pane side- by-side with the Outline. Then the scenario would look like this: 1. Click a toolbar button or click a sidebar to show the Review pane side-by-side with the Outline. Set up your filters and click the Refresh button to get your snapshot. 2. Click on an item in the Review to see its notes and properties. The item would also be automatically selected in the Outline. 3. Move the item around in the Outline, or drag it from the Review pane into a new location in the Outline. 4. If you're done reviewing the item, check it off in the Review pane and move onto the next item. I'm sure these aren't the only two ways to add reviews to the desktop app (and I they could both probably use some tweaking), but I think either one would make a good starting point. On Nov 9, 6:38 pm, Dwight <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Rob. Sorry to have missed the prior discussion of this item. > > I feel that I am getting to review my items reasonably promptly. That > is, the items that sit for a long time tend to be the ones that > deserve to sit; I almost never experience the omg feeling of > discovering something that I really totally needed to have done but > overlooked. Between goals, stars, categories like "someday/never" and > folders like "quarterly routine" I feel that I've got it under > control. But maybe if your review functionality was there when I > started I might have met my needs with something less complex. And I > can see the value of it for someone who has not yet gotten it all > under control. > > As I do the reviews, I want to be able to go through a group of tasks > and make changes to each one as required. I need to change context, > goal, star, importance, urgency, start and end dates, recurrence and > position in outline. In too many cases, after making the change the > next thing I have to do is to hunt my way back to the group of > projects I'm reviewing. If I'm looking at a view grouped by context > and I change a task's project, I find myself dumped into a list of > tasks under the edited task's new context, instead of the context I'm > trying to review.. If I'm in the outline view and i drag a task to a > new place in the outline, I end up looking at the other tasks in the > new folder, rather than the folder I'm trying to review. What I need > to do reviews more effectively, is an ability to freeze my current > view. I want to be able to change projects that are in the view in a > way that takes them out of the view, and I need to be able to check to > ensure that they were changed correctly, however I want the view to > snap back to the group (context, folder, etc) I am reviewing, with all > other groups visible but collapsed. > > If your review mode helped with this, I would vote for it. > -Dwight -- 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.
