I feel strongly about this and I want to revisit this issue. MLO tries to force you to work in an extremely strict sequential mode in it's Next Actions i.e. it only shows one Next Action at a time for each project. However, as Folke says "If more than one action [on a project] is truly actionable right now [then] you should list them all as next actions." And like Folke I HATE being forced into this way of working.
*Is it just me ? *Doesn't anyone else here mind being forced to work like this by MLO? (Personally GTDNext where I lived for about 3 weeks before MLO, has a "Force Next" option which I miss baldly!). To recap, after some sweat I discovered a workaround on MLO, which is messy but does sort of work - which is to call your Action (that is within a Project) a Project itself, and sure enough it will then appear as a Next Action (so long as it has no children obviously). One down-side is that it can start to mess with your head as to whether something is really a Next Action or is really a Project (as you need to us different naming conventions - e.g. if something is really a Project then in GTD, you need to describe the desired outcome/state rather than what the activity itself involves, right?!) Another down-side is that if you use automatic formatting to show you whether it is a Project or an Action, obviously your formatting gets messed up (i.e. with Actions looking like Projects!) Fwiw, what I do is I have my Actions in black and my Projects in bold (but also in dark grey to stop them shouting too much). And then if I (occasionally) want to do a "Force Next" on an Action (so as to make it appear on the Next Actions list), then I simply make the Action become Project (using Alt/J hotkey). This makes it go bold of course, but I can then remove the boldness by hitting Control/B twice! Rather clunky but it works. I have added this request to https://mlo.uservoice.com/forums/9235-general/suggestions/6946033-allow-more-than-one-next-action-within-a-project So to recap, what I am calling for is a new field called "Force Next" (or something similar) that will in effect for that Action to appear in the Next Actions view even if it is not the one official Next Action for the Project in question. Is anyone with me? J P.S. Should I perhaps start a nice new clean thread, or will that be irritating for people around here? -- 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/a308b859-da5d-4422-b66b-ed2d5d25498b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
