@Bedrudin, thanks a lot for that "parse" functionality I was not aware. That's huge.
Le mercredi 18 juillet 2012 07:56:01 UTC+2, Bedrudin a écrit : > > Hello Brienne, > > welcome to the google group and the MLO user's. Thank you for telling us > about yourself and why you are trying MLO. From this we learn about your > intentions for using MLO and can try to help you finding a way how MLO is a > benefit for your life. First I want to tell you that MLO is usable in many > ways, either simple, a bit more complex or very simle at all. A simple way, > which is good for starting, is to use MLO only as an outliner without using > the todo-tab or any of the properties in the properties dialog. Only open a > blank new outline and begin typing all the things you want to do or you > want to remember. Then if the amount of entries (so called tasks) is > growing and you feel a need for more structure, then MLO's features come in > turn. You can begin by grouping: create a task in the root (first level/top > most level of the outline) as a folder (Properties dialog: Pane General: > Task To-Do- Visibility: checkbox Folder) and move all the tasks that belong > to this folder as subtasks. Then you can collapse or expand the subtasks > and you can find your entries better. > > The To-Do-Tab shows you a plain list of tasks (not a tree like the > outline). Theses tasks come from the outline. You can filter the list in > the To-Do-Tab so that less tasks would show up. As a first idea you can > mark some of your folders as hidden so they won't show up in the todo list > (Properties dialog: Pane General: Task To-Do- Visibility: checkbox Hide the > branch in To-Do). This may be an idea for a folder that contains things you > want to remember, but you don't want to do them now. > > Now about your three questions I want to add to Richard and Dwight: > > - assigning a context by writing @ in front of the word is possible if > you use the parsing feature of MLO. You tell MLO to parse your entered > task > caption by pressing "Alt-Enter" instead of the normal way pressing "Enter" > only. Make sure to place the @-things at the end of the entered text. By > this parsing feature you can set a lot of other properties like "mark as > project: -p", "folder: -f", "star: -*", "start: today 17:00, or tomorrow > 14:00" und due date. You can find an explanation of the parsing feature in > the help of MLO. An easy way to open the page is to open the rapid task > entry dialog (Menu -> View -> Rapid task entry window) and click "learn > more" near to the checkbox "parse...". > - The templates mentioned in the google group could be found as > follows: Open MLO, then click in the Menu -> File -> New... and a dialog > pops up with many entries. There you have the option to open a blank new > file or one of the built-in templates. I have personally gotten some > useful > ideas from these templates by the years I use MLO. From time to time I > open > one of these templates and play around with it to find inspiration for new > useful ways to use MLO. And a big benefit for improving my use of MLO's > power is this google group. > > Hope this helps a bit, > best wishes > Bedrudin > Am Montag, 16. Juli 2012 19:48:11 UTC+2 schrieb Brienne: >> >> Hi all, >> I just joined this group because I am in the middle of my trial of this >> program and have to make a decision soon on whether I should buy it or not >> (as with everyone almost, budget is always tight, so we all think twice >> don't we? ;-) ) >> >> I feel a bit lost with all the options, though I am also intrigued by the >> complexity of this program. Oh and I hope it is ok that I started a new >> thread? I just felt it would be impolite to hi-jack someone's "New user" >> thread. >> >> First of all, before I start with my questions, let me tell you a bit >> about myself and why I am so interested in a program like MLO. I have not >> read any of the books mentioned in this forum. I am not (yet) familiar with >> all the theories and methods of to-do lists, and I must say I guess I >> missed something good! >> >> I suffer from ADD (yes, that attention thing ;) ) and my mind is >> constantly on the edge of bursting apart from ideas, do-not-forgets and >> what-I-always-wanted-to-do's. So I really really need a good way to sort >> things out and get them on paper sorted in a way that fits to my needs or, >> rather, thinking. I am very intrigued by the idea of having these contexts, >> projects and goals. That would cover a lot of the things that are on my >> mind; I had a bit of a hard time finding out how far automatic the program >> gets though: Is there a way to automatically asign contexts for instance, >> by typing an "@" in front of a word? Or are all these settings merely done >> manually through the properties dialog? >> >> I also read somewhere that projects always have to be marked done >> manually, is that right? Sounds a little odd to me, since I do see the >> percentage changing with the subtasks getting done. >> >> And lastly, I'd like to ask, in this group, is there anything like a >> files section where people share templates or something similar? I have >> often read people talking about some other user's template but I have a >> very hard time to find my way around these google groups. >> >> I hope this wasnt much too long for a first introduction, and please >> excuse my mistakes in grammar and spelling. English is my second language >> and my ADD does the rest to my spelling ;))) >> >> *waves hi to everyone* >> Brienne > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mylifeorganized/-/xB7rpjucMeEJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. 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