On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 6:19 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Ram. **** > > First, I want to validate your approach of keeping tasks you are never > going to do in MLO. I do that, and it feels to me to be totally consistent > with the GTD approach of freeing your brain to do something productive by > removing the need to hold and manage your task list. There are some tasks > that come up repeatedly, like dismantling the swingset my adult children > used when they were kids. I would like to do it someday but I know that > someday will not come this year and probably not next; there’s a good > chance it will not come in my lifetime. By putting the task in the > someday/never section of my outline I have dealt with it and I don’t have > to spend any more brainpower on it except for an annual review of my > “never” tasks.**** > > ** ** > > Your situation is unusual because you want manual sorting without using > the mouse. The mouse is very useful for tasks like manual sorting. But I > think it can be done.**** > > ** ** > > I see what you mean about using Insert in Outline. I have a couple of > tasks “test1” and “test2” at the top of my outline. I created a manually > sorted to-do list and dragged test1 and test2 to the top two positions in > the list. Then I went back to the outline, selected the top task (test1), > hit the Insert key on my keyboard, and added a task “new”. Back to the > to-do view, and “new” was at the bottom. Back to outline, cursor to the > top, and used alt-insert to create a subtask of the top task. Back to to-do > and subtask was at the bottom. So I see your issue.**** > > ** ** > > Question: why go to outline to create the tasks? It’s easy to put a new > task at position #2 in the to-do, just <home>,<insert> and type the task > name. >
There are 2 problems with that: 1. For some reason, when I create a task like this it gets created with urgency somewhere between 2 and 3. I have no idea why. My todo list doesn't show tasks with that low of an urgency. 2. It's much more convenient to insert tasks with the RTE dialog than with the normal MLO interface. (I never advocated inserting tasks in the Outline, it's Olivier who suggested it.) > If I wanted to do this I would create a dummy top-of-list task and insert > everything else just below it. Or is there an additional condition we > should know about, such as maybe you want to have the tasks appear in a > particular structure in the outline that’s different from the order you > have them in for the to-do?**** > > -Dwight**** > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mylifeorganized/H5uPr-JWkUk/unsubscribe?hl=en > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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. > > > -- 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.
