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]
>>
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