Hi, John.
I _think_ that I understand what you are after. You want a single report that shows the next actions per project, selected according to the algorithm that everyone uses and understands for next action selection, *and also* certain other tasks that do not at this moment meet the criteria for next action but that you personally know can and should be done right away. In other words, you want a report something like ((IsNextAction) OR (IsStarred)). MLO can’t do that because Next Action is defined only as an Action filter, not an advanced filter. I’m pretty sure that there’s no current way of writing an advanced filters that will select Next Actions. You can select Next Actions in the Action filter but this means that no task will ever be included in the view unless it is a Next Action. There’s no current way to create a view that shows Next Actions and also anything that’s not a Next Action. So, John, I think that one solution to your request would be to create an Advanced Filter called IsNextAction. This would allow you, for example, to create a flag called “ForcedNextAction”, assign a hotkey to this flag, and create a view that shows any task which is a next action or which has the flag set. Or you could use a special context, or the star, or maybe something else. I would not be an advocate for your proposal to create a forced next action as it seems to make MLO just a little bit more complex and hard to learn while nobody but you seems to be particularly asking for it. On the other hand, allowing an advanced filter for “Next Action” seems to me a little less complex to explain and it’s less locked in to your personal way of implementing GTD. In the event that you request this change, and it’s accepted, it’s still going to be at least a number of months before you have the changed code to play with. So I think that you should consider workarounds. What I do in similar circumstances is to make a split screen with two different views on display – for example one is next actions and the other is starred tasks. -Dwight -- 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/001e01d02d49%24fa70bfa0%24ef523ee0%24%40dwightarthur.us. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
