Perhaps "inherit" is the wrong word. It's more that tasks use their
parent's Goal status as their default if they do not override it.

Tasks only inherit the Goal when they are sitting under a parent with it
set and they don't have their own Goal. It's not like context inheritance,
where Context is changed on the child tasks. Instead, all children of tasks
marked with Week goal will show up in filters that filter Week goals, even
though looking under properties on those children will not show it as a
Week goal.

If you are familiar with "Hide-in-todo" which hides a whole branch in the
todo list, it works that same way. The same as dates also -- MLO uses the
parent's date unless the child overrides the date.

The usefulness of my strategy only becomes apparent when I'm looking at the
Todo tab with a view such as "Active by Goal".  Tasks in my Inbox will show
up here, because Inbox has Goal=Week set, but once the task is moved out of
Inbox to a parent that doesn't have a Goal set, it disappears from the Todo
view.

Does that help?


On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 6:28 AM, Pgr <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a question though...
>
> Lisa states this in the blog entry:
>
> <Inbox> – currently this has Goal=Week set, to force these tasks to show
>> up in my daily lists (more on that later). Since Goal is inherited, as soon
>> as I move new tasks to their proper homes, they will no longer be Week
>> goals unless I manually set it.
>
>
> I tried this but my new tasks don't get created with (inherited) week-goal
> flag. I suppose that they will inherit that if they get moved to the Inbox,
> but it seems newly created tasks don't inherit properties from their parent.
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> Thanks
> Pgr
>
>
> On Wednesday, October 31, 2012 6:05:17 PM UTC, Lisa S wrote:
>>
>> I've put together a blog post on how I currently have MLO set up to work
>> for me, in case anyone would like to see it all in one place.
>>
>> http://stroyan.net/lisasblog/**2012/mylifeorganized/<http://stroyan.net/lisasblog/2012/mylifeorganized/>
>>
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