Please review my discussion about position in outline versus ranking in to-do list in a comment to your first post. The inbox is not a status, it’s a place in the outline. You could just leave all of your tasks in the inbox is a big unstructured heap but it would be hard to find them and “complete tasks in order” would not work very well. Many people will get tasks out of the inbox and into a relevant section of the outline soon after they show up in the inbox. Some people set aside a time every day for a daily review, others might do it weekly. Maybe some tasks are really just a standalone thing to do with no good home in your outline. You could leave such a task in the inbox, assign a context and priority and maybe some dates and later mark it complete and let it get archived, all while it continues to live in the inbox.
A great way to move a task or group of tasks is with drag and drop. Try this: open the inbox view, position it so that the tasks you want to move are visible, and hit F3. A helper window will open showing your inbox task list. The helper window is missing a lot of the functionality of the main window but it’s great for drag and drop. Move the helper window to one side of your screen and the main MLO window to the other, then bring up the Outline (or All Tasks) view in the main window. Position it so that the destination folder where you want to move your tasks is visible. Select the tasks in the helper window then drag them to the mail window and drop them onto the target folder. Another popular way to do this is to select the tasks you want to move then right-click on them, select “Move to” from the context menu, select the target folder from the popup window and click OK. Or you could select a task or tasks and use the left/right/up/down buttons on the MLO toolbar to move the tasks where you want them. This does not work as well once you start to have thousands of tasks in your profile. I am sure that there are other, better methods, maybe another user will post some. -Dwight From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Smith Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2014 4:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MLO] Re: What is the Inbox? I have searched help, the manual and this forum. Confusing? I am confused - how do you get stuff out of the Inbox? Do you have to Drag and Drop? Or is there some way of changing its status to 'Active' ? On Saturday, November 22, 2014 12:40:16 AM UTC, John Cesta wrote: Yes exactly right. The inbox in mlo is like any other inbox. Study the mlo outline to gain a foundational understanding of the system and how the inbox fits in. -- 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/f16dc090-3a81-46a6-8345-36e8192cc25f%40googlegroups.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/f16dc090-3a81-46a6-8345-36e8192cc25f%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 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/00d201d00b72%242cf18f30%2486d4ad90%24%40dwightarthur.us. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
