That's a great idea, I'll play with it. Last I played with manual sort I think I was able to reset the manual sort by modifying the view.
Lisa Stroyan, [email protected] On Nov 22, 2013 5:40 PM, "pottster" <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, this may be a bit out of left field and I may have not understood what > you want, but you could try using Starred Date. The Starred Date property > is sortable and is applied to the second that you star a task. This means > that you could unstar your tasks, then restar them in the order you want to > be your default, and finally sort by Starred Date. > > On Friday, 22 November 2013 17:33:49 UTC, Lisa S wrote: >> >> I'm wondering if anyone can think of a way to do the following - I'm >> willing to have it be desktop only if I have too. >> >> I have a list of tasks that are "today's tasks" (which I currently mark >> with a star and use the Active Starred list) . Note that these tasks are >> not all in a tree together because I can take any task in my tree and mark >> it. Also, note that a significant portion of these tasks are recurring, >> most daily, but some weekly, etc. an example is "brush teeth every morning" >> or "schedule the car for maintenance every three months". >> >> Now, what I want is a fixed "default" sort order that I can set (this >> could involve setting some kind of a property or something) . The default >> order would be the order in which the tasks usually occur, for example >> brushing teeth before going to work. Then, I want a manual but temporary >> sort, using drag-and-drop. This would be the order in which the tasks are >> going to be seen today (or until I reset to default). For example, if I >> have a dentist appointment in the afternoon, I might wait to brush my teeth >> until right before it, so I would move that task down in the list. >> >> However, tomorrow I'm going to want this recurring task to be back in its >> normal place, not in the middle of the afternoon. So lastly, I would want a >> way to reset back to the default order. >> >> Am I totally overthinking this or missing something obvious? How useful >> do you think this feature would be and couldn't be implemented in MLO's >> current architecture? >> >> Lisa Stroyan, [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. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/ba53107f-164f-4a41-95a5-98cae9a138a2%40googlegroups.com > . > 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/CAJYFk%2B0R%2BOo4anaNrdtFnJW5uakkcyvnPqWMwBM0U9Vwz4BDrw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
