This is the simplest way. If you want to understand the full power of the tool you need to learn about active versus inactive actions. If you make a task inactive it will be hidden from any to-do list that displays active actions. A beginning overview of active actions is on page 48 of the MlLifeOrganized User Guide, do you have that? It's about MLO 3, the version for MLO 4 has apparently not been written yet, but the concept of active actions hasn't changed.
The hidden-branch idea hides tasks based on where they are in your outline without regard to the content of the task. If you want to hide tasks based on context without regard to location, you may want to try closed contexts. Hit F8 to bring up the Manage Contexts pop-up. In the left pane, select a context like @someday , then in the right tab select "hours" tab and click "always closed". Then, change your to-do view to exclude closed contexts. In MLO4, bring up the view definition in the left pane of the main window, expand the section called "Contexts, and at the bottom of the section clear the checkbox called "include closed". Note that you can also use the :"closed context" concept for what it was designed for, which is to have a context and its tasks appear only at certain times. For example, if you review your @someday tasks every Saturday afternoon, you could set Saturday noon to 5pm as the open hours for @someday and the @someday tasks will be in your to-do at that time and no other. -Dwight From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 11:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MLO] Next Actions by Project is showing tasks that aren't projects I'll try that for now. Is that what you use generally for keeping things off your To-Do list (e.g. @Someday, @WaitingFor) or is there some better way to do this? On Friday, January 11, 2013 9:24:46 PM UTC-7, Dwight Arthur wrote: You could try checking the box "hide the branch in to-do" that I described to you a couple of emails ago. From: [email protected] <javascript:> [mailto:[email protected] <javascript:> ] On Behalf Of Chris Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 11:14 PM To: [email protected] <javascript:> Subject: Re: [MLO] Next Actions by Project is showing tasks that aren't projects One followup question: how do you get something to NOT show up in the next actions view? Specifically, I don't want certain actions that are in folders to show up as next actions as they are not something I'm ready to start working on. -- 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/-/yg8UNxhSK6YJ. 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.
