Changing the order in the outline is easy: menu-->move, then drag tasks
around. You can work out of the Outline if you wish to see all the tasks,
and not just the active ones (you can hide completed in the menus). But
having a view that is filtered and sorted differently from the Outline is
one of the most powerful features of MLO. There is currently no way to
change the views on Android.
Have you tried the Projects view? I believe it might show inactive tasks.
Have you looked at the sort options in the menu for your Active by Context
view? You might be able to be creative with these. For example, I sometimes
put prefixes in my titles ("Caption") and use that as a sort criteria.
I believe you are using start dates differently than MLO expects. You can
use them that way, but not everything will be as intuitive because the
concept of "Active" is partially dependent on start date. The start date
ideally should be used to indicate that the task cannot start before that
date/time. You shouldn't have to update it--if it is important and doable
now, it shouldn't have a start date in the future. Is there a reason you
need to use a start date? If you are trying to specify priority with it,
you might consider using other fields (Goals, Starred, Importance, Urgency,
etc).
I hope that helps! You can see my use model at
http://stroyan.net/lisasblog/2012/mylifeorganized/ if you are curious.
Lisa
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Christopher Tso <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need some advice on using Android MLO. I can filter the tasks by Context
> under "Active by Context". But how do I include tasks not yet active for a
> specific context in the view as well? Also, how do I keep the outline view
> that allows me to see the task hierarchy and manual ordering of tasks?
>
> To give an example of why I need it, let's say I have several
> projects which contain tasks with a @ShoppingCentre context. I only have 1
> hour to spend at the shopping centre, so I won't be able to do everything
> there.The projects and sub-tasks are manually ordered such that I will buy
> the items on top of the list first, as they are most important. The parent
> tasks (projects) also indicate the importance of the shopping items. An
> example task outline would be: #1 Buy groceries (kale, tomatoes, milk), #2
> Banking (ATM withdrawal, get special offer), #3 Buy hardware (external
> storage), #4 Buy clothes (rain jacket, business pants).
>
> The problem with how I currently use MLO is that I forget to do something
> important because (1) I didn't update the Start Date (so it's not under
> "Active by Context"), and (2) I spent time doing less important stuff
> because the "Active by Context" view does not keep the outline view (i.e.
> the hierarchy is flattened).
>
> Regards,
>
> Christopher
>
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