Thanks Richard I'm new to MLO, and was also wondering how the Home / Work and other tabs on the screenshot in the blog might have been set up. Although MLO appears to have all the features I need, some of them are more difficult to access than I would like (especially as my preference is to use the keyboard and not the mouse when using a PC, and, wherever possible to fully-specify all the attributes I want (position in hierarchy, due date, recurrence, contexts, reminders, etc.)
I currently have several different areas (of my life) set up as a hierarchy, and I use custom formatting to colour code them according to area. I've also considered using contexts for them, and haven't decided which method would work best for me. (I have 5 areas: Personal, Home, and three other "Work" areas (my main day job, a part-time job and a voluntary job.) I haven't yet worked out what's the most streamlined way to enter new tasks in a particular area, and/or allocate tasks in the Inbox that were entered in a hurry (often in the Android app) to their proper area, both in the Windows app and the Android app. One of the disadvantages of using categories is that it makes for a very long list or categories once "real" ones are included, and the Android app requires me to scroll and pick, rather than filtering for matching categories as I type, which would be much quicker. This disadvantage of using the hierarchy is that it seems to be quite fiddly to put / move things in the right place in both apps. I often end up having to do it twice because things don't end up where I expect them to (although I admint that at least part of the problem is lack of familiarity). What would be nice is to be able to quickly get to the right view (preferably with a keyboard shortcut), and have have MLO automatically include the "rules" for that view as part of the default information for any new task. So if I have a view that is a Zoom of my Home area, adding a new task in that tab would automatically nest it immediately under my Home folder. Or, if I use a category, a tab with a filter for that category would automatically give that category to any new task added when adding a task to that tab. Obviously flags aren't an option (until they're included in the Android app, at least), but you hinted that there might be other ways to separate out areas, so I'd be interested to hear what they might be, and any comments you (or anybody else) may have on streamlining data entry using the various methods available. Julie On Wednesday, December 26, 2012 1:30:57 PM UTC, Richard C wrote: > > It depends on how you have organised your tasks. As with most things > relating to MLO, there are many ways of doing this but two simple > possibilites are: > > 1. Use the hierarchy and zoom: if all your work tasks are in one part > of the hierarchy (under 'Work' parent?) and all your home tasks are in a > different part of the hierarchy, you can create two different tabs and in > one use Zoom to select all the tasks under the 'Work' parent; and in the > other tab, use Zoom to select the tasks under the 'Home' parent > 2. Use Contexts: if your Home and Work tasks are scattered throughout > the hierarchy, you can assign the contexts @Work and @Home to each > category of tasks, and then create two tabs and within one tab, use the > Filter to select just those tasks with the @Work tasks and in the other to > select the tasks with the @Home context. > > > Do either of these work for you? > > Richard > > On Tuesday, 25 December 2012 15:49:42 UTC, Роман Антонов wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> Thanks for release! But how to use TABS? >> I want to separate Personal and Business tasks, but if I create task it >> appears everywhere... What should do??? > > -- 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/-/HPp9E5jBm-oJ. 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.
