Hi, Stro. Could you check what view you are currently displaying in your Outline tab? (in case you don't know, you determine this by looking at the list of views in the left-hand panel and looking for one whose name is in bold red characters).
The behavior you are seeing is what happens when you create a new task while you are in a filtered view, and the task does not pass the filters so it's dropped from the display. This can be very frustrating if the task _will_ qualify when you are done entering it, for example if you have a view that's filtered by context and your new task is going to have the "right" context but it's dropped before you can assign its context. Many people deal with this by doing most of their task entry in a view that isn't filtered, such as _All_Tasks_. But it sounds as though you have a filtered view in your Outline tab that requires a context or requires a date. Sometimes we get views in a tab that don't really belong there. If that's what happened to you, I would recommend bringing the All Tasks view back to your outline tab (while in the Outline tab, find "all tasks" in the list on the left and click on it) and then locking it so it doesn't change again (after you get All Tasks displayed, right-click on the Outline tab and check "set as default for this tab" then right click again and check "lock default in this tab") If you really want to have a filtered view for the Outline tab, I would recommend making a new tab (click on the [+] icon after the tabs) making it the first tab (click the new tab and drag it all the way to the left) and then set it to All Tasks and lock it as above. Then use this tab for entering new tasks. The step of dragging a tab, by the way, will not work if you have already locked other tabs, you might need to temporarily unlock them. FYI the reason I suggest making the new tab come first, is that there are some interesting things you can do with synchronizing selection and zoom among tabs, The synchronization works through the first tab, and if the first tab's display is missing some tasks the results of the synchronization might not be what you expected. So it's good to have an All Tasks display in your first tab. -Dwight From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stro Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 10:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [MLO] How do you add a New Task in the Outline tab in v 4.1.0? I am struggling in version 4.1.0 with the seemingly simple action of adding a New Task to the Outline tab (after years of using verion 3). Here is what MLO Help says, but it does not work: To add a task: 1. On the Task menu, click New task, and type a task name. In the Outline tab, I successfully create a new row and type in the new task name. But whatever I do next the row disappears from the screen. I try to affix a date or I try to attach the Category, and the row disappears. After years and years of adding new tasks in verion 3, I cannot add them in verion 4. The only work around I have found is to Search for the disappeared new task name. When it appears in the search list, I click on it and an All Tasks tab suddenly appears (between the Outline and To Do tabs). I click on the new task name in the All Task tab list, then affix a date and category to it. I close the All Tasks tab and then I can find the New Task name in the Outline and To Do tabs. Certainly this is not the new way to add a new task in new version 4 Professional Edition. I am paid and registered user, by the way. Your help will be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Stro -- 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. 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
