Brilliant - thanks everyone. :) Either way in GTD theory it's extremely important to clear out your "In Basket(s)" be they real or digital.
Suggestion: Control/M doesn't seem to be on they Keyboard Shortcuts page. (I am dyslexic so may be wrong!) If true please add it. In fact neither is Shift/Control/M for rapid text entry! Further suggesion: Mark up the hotkeys that are most popular with expert users, so that us newbies are drawn to them. :) J On Saturday, November 29, 2014 10:09:08 AM UTC, Wallace Gilbraith wrote: > > Re Moving tasks: in outline view, I select the task I want to move and use > Shift-Alt-Arrow. Up and down arrows take me up and down, left and right > arrows go in and out of the depth of my outline. > Shift-Arrow (up or down) selects multiple tasks for moving. > F6 then collapses the view, ready for the next one > My inbox fills up with items within the inbox folder. By selecting them > all, and moving all to the top level of the outline (same level as inbox > itself), my new items are visible when I collapse the outline, so I can see > what is to be moved next. > > Wol > > - sent from my phone - please excuse brevity - > > - phone sends from gmail account, but please always mail me at > [email protected] <javascript:> - > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Dwight Arthur <[email protected] <javascript:>> > *Sent:* 29 November 2014 01:16:59 GMT+00:00 > *To:* [email protected] <javascript:> > *Subject:* RE: [MLO] Re: What is the Inbox? I have searched help, the > manual and this forum. Confusing? > > 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] <javascript:> [mailto: > [email protected] <javascript:>] *On Behalf Of *John Smith > *Sent:* Thursday, November 27, 2014 4:48 PM > *To:* [email protected] <javascript:> > *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. 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