UPDATE: I have discovered a serious problem with the View that I built as described above. Which is that it is only showing Actions that are part of Projects. This means that Actions that have not (yet) been allocated a Project do not appear. And likewise when you tick the last Action off a project, the project disappears from view. Drat!! Back to square one... >:^(
On Wednesday, December 3, 2014 1:23:37 AM UTC, John Smith wrote: > > Andrie > > Thank you - yes that's helpful. > > > Meanwhile can you help me with this problem. > > I am trying to create a list of Next Actions - one per Project, but also > sorted not each Action's own Importance, but sorted by the Importance of > the *Project* to which each action belongs. > And also to be able to see and edit the Importance of the Project to which > each Action belongs. > > Background: It seems to me that it is the Importance (and Urgency) of the > Project itself that is the most helpful think to keep an eye one. Whereas > if you sorted by the Importance of an Action then that would disappear as > soon as the Action is completed. > > I have experimented *at some length* with "Next Actions by Project". And > I have tried to use the filter setting: > Filter ==> General ==> Show Actions: Next Actions > However although this does create views that only show one Next Action > project, and although the Projects are can be put into order of > Project-level importance, you can not SEE (nor edit) the level of > Importance on that screen. So that is useless to me(!) > > I have eventually concluded (after more time than is healthy!) that, very > counter-intuitively, that "Next Actions by Project" is NOT the way to go. > > The only thing that seems to work is to tick "Complete Subtasks in Order" > on every single project [slightly irritating] and then create a View with: > Filter ==> General ==> Show Actions: Active > Filter ==> General ==> Show Hierarchy: Yes > Filter ==> Add Avanced ==> [un-ticked] > Filter ==> Group & Sort ==> Group by ==> (none) > Filter ==> Group & Sort ==> Sort... ==> Sort tasks by ==> Importance, > Descending > > This has the added benefit that I can quickly see what other Actions are > queuing up for a Project by unticking (Complete subtasks in order) field > (using the hotkey Alt/P). And if I wish to change the Next Action for > another one, I can of course then very easily scroll down and move the one > of the other actions up into the Next Action position (e.g. by using arrow > keys and Shift/Alt/UpArrow etc). And do all this without my hands leaving > the keyboard. > > One problem: > For larger projects, using "Complete Subtasks in Order" becomes a problem > because the whole of the rest of the tree below a project is reduced to a > single next task! And I still suspect that Next Action would be better, > it's just that I can not for the life of me work out how to use it in a way > that works as I need! > > J > -- 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/c26d3a75-3adf-4826-8f7e-0fa771ad3c2c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
