Dwight - One problem I was having with the folders is that I was being over-whelmed with too much what was if fact rather low priority stuff clogging up my lists and I found that that high priority stuff was ending up being buried down in some folder somewhere.
The other problem I was having was that I found - and continue to find - it way too pedantic and time consuming to allocate as well as Context, to also enter both Importance AND Urgency to ever single sub-task. And for this reason I have been experimenting with manually dragging the higher overall priority item further up the sort order in Outline view. At the time I also needed to "simplify and get on with my life" - but thanks for your suggestion. I can see that some form of folders could possibly help me, so I may revisit this issue later, but as things stand complex folders would be the kiss of death for me(!) Stéph - Interesting. Yes, your greying-out formatting rule sounds extremely clever. - When your remove the Due Dates is this done with an "advanced filtering rule" applied to whichever view(s) you are using. - Please can you explain what you mean by "Control-D, Delete". Control-D will duplicate the current item, but Delete then deletes the original one, so surely you are back to where you started, no? (Yes, I like using Control-D on it's own, particularly where the Context is the same, because obviously it saves us from re-entering the Context) On Saturday, January 10, 2015 at 9:12:02 AM UTC, Stéph wrote: > > Hello John, > > I use the outline structure to group my tasks into the following > hierarchy: > Areas of Focus (personal, home, work, community), > Roles (husband, father, friends & family, project engineer, team leader, > SCADA specialist, etc), > Goals and Projects, > Sub-projects and tasks. > > > I use a Context to tag tasks as someday/maybe (see the flying pig icon in > the "icons and filters" thread I started and Andrey kindly pinned at the > top of the list). I've got a formatting rule set up to grey-out the text of > someday/maybe items so that they don't stand-out when I'm looking at my > outline. I also remove due dates. This way it's quick to make something > someday/maybe - just assign the context (with a hotkey, if you like). Also > type ctrl-D, Delete, if you have the time for two actions. > > > As far as the tickler list is concerned, that's definitely a case of > setting a start date. The quickest way for me is Ctrl-S and then type and > take advantage of the excellent date parsing - "Next week Thursday", "in 2 > months", etc. > > Stéphane > -- 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/06c4c4d7-98c0-42f4-9444-3125846436b8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
