It sounds like you are trying to accomplish two activities: one is rapid task entry, and the other responses have explained how that works (only on the desktop though). The second is processing your inbox.
Because MLO keeps tasks in a tree as well as in all of your individual, dynamically created lists, there is no concept of moving it "out" of the inbox without putting it somewhere else. It sometimes can be annoying to have to do another step to move the task to its proper location, but in the long run, it's a very nice feature to have one's tasks organized separately from the lists they are in. If you are working on the desktop and really don't want to have to move things out of the inbox, one option is to create an alternative view which shows only those tasks that do not have the pieces of information you want them to have in order to consider them "processed". Then, as soon as you add this information, they will disappear from that list. As for setting the various properties, you have a few different options for efficiency. If you don't like having to remember the input parsing explained in another message followed by alt-enter, there are shortcuts that jump to most of the fields, so even though you cannot tab through them, you can quickly set the fields you want once you learn the keyboard shortcuts. Another option is to include the columns that you want to have set in the view . For most columns, right clicking in the appropriate column will give you the option to change it. Another shortcut is to use control-M to move the task to its proper location after you have set its fields. control-and will bring up a new window with your outline in it, and typing the first few characters of the parent you want will jump to it. I have my outline prefixed by numbers so that I can type 0-9 and quickly jump to my major areas. Here is how I process my inbox: First, I multi-select tasks which have the same contexts, and right-click the context column, until all of my inbox tasks have contexts. Next, since I work a lot with goals and starred, I apply the same process to them. Third, I look for anything that needs a due date, or anything that can't be started until the future. Lastly, I multi-select tasks that are going to the same Life Focus (the folders in my outline), control-M, and hit a number 0-9. I usually take care of tasks that are two minutes or less, but not always as this tends to distract me and then the inbox never gets processed :-) I also have a failsafe where all tasks in my inbox show up in some of my lists to force me to process my inbox more often. This way I can send tasks to my inbox and not worry about missing them later. On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 6:29 AM, fremington <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry if I'm being dim, but I cannot find a satisfactory way of processing > new tasks in MLO. Surely there must be a simple way to run through all > tasks in the inbox using tab or other keyboard shortcuts and automatically > moving to the next task after one is completed? The only way I can find to > process tasks is to click through the properties pane for each task with > only some opportunities to tab between boxes/ > I am just starting with MLO. I'm a long term user of Thinking Rock but > frustrated with the Android app that goes with that excellent desktop app, > decided to explore MLO. However, thanks to thinking rock I'm used to > starting every session by processing the equivalent to MLO's rapid input to > inbox, called thoughts in TR - it takes seconds to tab through and complete > fields for each new task, tab to the enter key, hit return and you're on to > the next new task (with the processed task moved out of the 'inbox'). If > MLO needs the painstaking process I've discovered so far, I think I'll just > suffer the TR app as I can't imagine being able to face new task processing > as readiily as I need to. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MyLifeOrganized" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Lisa ------------------------------ Lisa Stroyan, mailto: [email protected] <[email protected]> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
