Hi, nice!!!
Could you post the *.mlaf file with settings and the source of these icons?

Petr

Dne pondělí, 22. října 2012 5:07:58 UTC+2 JimboDimbo napsal(a):
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> Has anyone tried using the Task status icon technique to quickly show a 
> Task status in Outline view (also shows in To-Do)?
> This was mentioned in a post from Jarek on Oct 6 which I cannot find on 
> this forum unless I do a search, but he referred to a blog post here: 
> http://manage-this.com/mylifeorganized-custom-status-icons/
> You need to read this blog post, but his really good idea is to assign a 
> status icon to a Task based on it's status.
> Based on this, these are the status categories I have developed:
>
> 1. Live + Overdue or Starred (Play Red icon)
> 2. Live (Play Green icon)
> 3. Scheduled this week (Pause Light Green icon)
> 4. Scheduled this month (Pause Green)
> 5. Scheduled after this month (Pause Dark Green)
> 6. Delegated/Waiting For (Pause Red)
> 7. Someday/Maybe (Pause Grey)
> 8. Task is a note (Notepad Yellow)
>
> See screen shot attached.
>
> The main idea I had is that tasks are either (a) 'paused' because they are 
> scheduled, waiting on someone or are tagged as 'sometime/maybe'; or 'play' 
> which means they are 'live' (my term for any task which I could be working 
> on; which is similar to the MLO 'active' but ignores dependencies and the 
> 'hide-branch').
>
> I now find this status icon invaluable to review my Outline. When there 
> are many items in Outline it is hard to easily make sense of all the 
> folders/projects/tasks. Now with the icon status I can quickly see which 
> tasks are 'live' or 'paused'. I know you can filter or zoom, but I like to 
> trundle through my whole list, or at least one of the top level folders to 
> get an overview and prioritise my activity.
> Sometimes I find myself prioritising a 'paused' task because I have recent 
> information that changes the status which is not yet captured in MLO and 
> the task is not in my To-Do.
> It's not really possible to keep MLO totally current, or at least it would 
> take too much work. So I find that a quick run through my Outline is 
> required most days to check status and keep the To-Do list accurate.
>
> I have adapted/developed custom rules based on this idea and I do not see 
> any other references in this forum to this technique. I would be interested 
> in comments from others.
>
> I have the icons and rules if anyone is interested. I have also written 
> some detailed notes along with these, but I'll see if there is any traction 
> on this before posting, as it gets quite detailed.
>
> I see that v4 has more Outline filtering, but as I said, I still like to 
> review main focus areas (work/home/folk) at times, for a GTD type weekly 
> review.
> This icon does not work on Android, but I use that mainly read-only. The 
> idea here is to aid the Outline reviews.
>
> Cheers,
> Peter.
>

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