> I had the same thought about Control-D. I think Alt-D was what was meant, it goes to the due date field. Maybe but if so I'm still not sure what Alt-D, Delete does... (!)
J On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Lisa Stroyan <[email protected]> wrote: > I had the same thought about Control-D. I think Alt-D was what was meant, > it goes to the due date field. > > I really have to find time to play with auto formatting and icons more. > Sounds like a good refinement. > > John, I know you already have your system but for others following the > thread...I prefer to use drag/drop ordering for importance/priority also, > but since my outline structure has other meaning, I do that drag/drop in a > manually sorted view. Since Android only syncs the order of Starred and > Active Starred (two independent sort orders), I use those. I have learned > that if I create a view based on one of these, for example, modified Active > Starred with action type set to all, I can rearrange the non-active tasks > and they will show up in that order -- with caveats -- in the other Active > Starred views as well. (That way I can rearrange tomorrow's tasks). > > Unfortunately there is some sync bug where my recurring tasks sometimes > get sent to the bottom of the list for the next day when I'm working from > and syncing from both platforms (happened long before the above view hack). > So John, this probably wouldn't work for you anyway, because it works as a > "today's working order" but not really as a static order. The only way I > make it work is that all of my recurring tasks have "()" in the title so I > can quickly grab them and put them back in place when this happens. > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 6:12 AM, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/06c4c4d7-98c0-42f4-9444-3125846436b8%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Lisa > > ------------------------------ > Lisa Stroyan, mailto: [email protected] <[email protected]> > > -- > 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/CAJYFk%2B0M6TzyfvBSGWbg79mbjY%3D%2BeyWbkn52gPqPAUbJd85Q_g%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/CAJYFk%2B0M6TzyfvBSGWbg79mbjY%3D%2BeyWbkn52gPqPAUbJd85Q_g%40mail.gmail.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. 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