You know Dwight, that's actually a good point and I didn't think about that. The problems would be the same with a numbered column so I guess I can say "scratch that". What I'm doing now would actually work better. Okay, I would like to unrequest this feature request. ha ha!
Joel On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Dwight Arthur <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Joel. I use Importance much like you do, to force tasks into a > specified order in certain views. I understand that this isn’t consistent > with the way that Importance was designed to be used in calculating the > “computed score” but I was never able to make computed score come out how I > wanted it and I gave up on it. This method is working well for me and I > have no complaints. The only drawback is that when I first assign > importance to tasks for some view I have to remember to assign numbers that > are at least 5 to 10 apart (ie importance values 180, 170, 160 etc so that > later if I have to insert a new task between two existing tasks there’s > room. Also, it’s easy to adjust the order of tasks by selecting a task and > clicking on the Importance slider then using the left and right arrows to > finetune the importance value. The task jumps up or down in the view while > I am hitting the arrows – very cool. It’s a little harder on Android where > it all depends on dragging my finger to just the right spot on the slider. > > > > OK, so my question is, why do you need another field? What are the > disadvantages of using Importance and Urgency in this way? > > -Dwight > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Holmes245 > *Sent:* Wednesday, June 25, 2014 9:06 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [MLO] Feature request: New column titled "Order" with numbers > > > > In my MLO setup, I have a master to do list but I use the 'important' > column as a way to order my tasks for the day on this list whereas on any > of my other lists from which the master to do lists pulls, I use the > Urgency column to sort tasks. Is there any way we can get a column named > something like "Order" or "Task Order" that would simply allow us to number > our tasks. In other words, If I use it to order a task 1 (and the sort is > sorted by 'task order' first) then this task would jump to the top. I would > work just like any other column, but just have numbers in the column drop > down menu. This would help me to sort my daily tasks in the order I want to > work them. > > > > Joel > > -- > 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/e4944c39-d94b-4a77-b9c9-792298320c4c%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/e4944c39-d94b-4a77-b9c9-792298320c4c%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > 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/EocX7Ntg_YM/unsubscribe. > 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. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/000601cf907b%2451d00c40%24f57024c0%24%40dwightarthur.us > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/000601cf907b%2451d00c40%24f57024c0%24%40dwightarthur.us?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CAMYN1-gbx-ojz77sSP_msU5jpYSi_k6skWYjSuxtPFBszjNVoQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
