Greetings Dwight, Thanks for the reply and suggestions...
[I agree with you that it would be better if the delayed archiving feature would be a user-selectable option. I would suggest that by default delayed archiving should be enabled because this prevents unpleasant surprises that are hard to repair. People who understand what’s happening should be able to select which way they want this to happen.] Makes sense—understood… the key thing being is *it should be a user-selectable option*. I work for a software company myself, so I understand the need to modify features. Having said that, as a general rule, you can add features all day long—but it’s an understanding that you don’t take away existing features. User-selectable would address the behavior and add more features without changing existing feature usage. [Or you might be saying that you want a tab which shows a list of project titles. You can also easily create a view of folder titles but it will include extraneous folder titles like <Inbox>. In order to see just the former project names in a view you would need to create some condition that's true for all of them. For example, you could include some context on all of them. Or you could set some flag on all of them. Or start them all with the prefix :PRJ. Then you would have to create a custom view that shows all folder names where the folder has subtasks and the folder meets your specified condition. This is a little more work but I don’t think it’s too much.] Correct-- something similar could be done with folders (or prefixes, flags, etc). Unfortunately a folder with certain attributes is still a folder, as it should be, (it contains things), while tagging an item as a Project (a singular outcome from many requisite action) allows me to manage my GTD world in my GTD application of choice in an effective way. Not only do I also use folders for my primary contexts (@HOME, @WORK, @ERRANDS) but each of these primary contexts also uses folders for its sub-folders that are time context sensitive (TODAY, +7, <30, >30) Each one of these is rightfully a folder, acting as a folder should . On the flip side, the loss of being able to not identify a collection of actions as a Project prevents me from using the software as a true GTD program in my GTD world since I currently use AutoFormat (‘IsProject’) for custom formatting projects so they stand out in the list of non-recurring actions, while being able to identify Status allows me to sift and sort (in a new Tab) all my Project Parents folders by Status and Time frame. Invaluable when wrapping up one project then getting a quick 30,000 foot view of what’s on the radar and what needs my attention. At the end of the day, anything less than being able to use the Project feature is a workaround waiting for a fix, and I’m hesitant to give up previous operations, features, and benefits that I’ve been using in MLO since 1.x. Thanks Again for the assistance and understanding...! -- 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.
