Hi, Michael. Try this on Android:
1. On outline view, find a folder you want to work on 2. Long-tap the folder and select "Zoom in" 3. Switch to active-by-context or maybe active-actions This gives a pretty good view of what's going on in one of your folders. Disadvantage is that it shows only one folder, but if you want to show _all_ of your folders, that's what the Outline view does. -Dwight From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Emerald, CFA Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012 10:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [MLO] Re: How do you use folders, versus projects? Hi. After reading what you and other wrote, I came up with these simple user rules for me: 1. (thanks to you) a folder is a container of related tasks 2. A project is just that: a project. So, I can include folders in Active Tasks, understanding that they are merely containers of similar tasks. For example, I don't want to "Brush my teeth" followed by "return a client call" followed by "Paint the front porch". Instead, if I prefer I can group by folder. The only caveat is that Android MLO cannot group by folders. And so, if I require to see tasks nicely organized in my active list, I am forced to use projects instead of folders. Such projects have nothing to do with true projects, since they have no recurrence; rather, they are merely buckets of similar tasks. My wish list would be to have: Active Tasks by Folder on the Android. I am hesitant to request this, though, since it seems unique to me, and there is no reason one needs tasks grouped by similarity. If they really want that they can use contexts. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lisa Stroyan Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 18:57 To: Groups, Email Subject: Re: [MLO] Re: How do you use folders, versus projects? This is a good description of folders vs. projects. Re: project encoding -- Good point, I need to utilize that more. I can do a similar thing with the task path options, though, so I'm back to trying to decide when to mark a parent task a project. How do you decide if a group of related tasks is "big" enough to merit being a project? (Not that I think there is a right or wrong way, I'm just looking for ideas). It sounds like in your model, projects are pretty big. In GTD, anything with more than one action would be a project,IIRC. That feels too granular to me with my current use model. OTOH, I'm not breaking my tasks into actions like I should, so maybe it would come in handy there. On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 4:24 PM, BOC <[email protected]> wrote: For me: Folders - organizational/containers and could be areas of life - Work, Personal, Family. At work it could be departments (HR, IT, etc). A folder organizing recurring tasks. This approach is blended with contexts. Projects - a group of specific tasks. When they're done, the project is done. To me the beautiful secret of projects is encoding the project name. For example, Michael has four weddings to shoot. They all have the same basic tasks but they're in different stages. Tagging the parent task as a project could give you the following in your to-do list due today. [BOC Wedding] - Collect Money [Lisa Wedding] - Verify Reception Location [Robisme Wedding] - Upload proofs to website -- 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] <mailto:mylifeorganized%[email protected]> . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en. -- Lisa _____ Lisa Stroyan, mailto: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> -- 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. -- 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. -- 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.
