Yes - I'd slightly forgotten about Hide the branch in To-Do. Interesting... I guess things that aren't QUITE ready yet could usefully be hidden there rather than buried in my Someday-Maybe folder.
That way they are there when I am in (daily & weekly) review mode, but hidden when I am in action mode. Needs more experimentation. But OK I'll add Alt-Y to my list of hotkeys! Thanks J On 11 January 2015 at 01:11, Lisa Stroyan <[email protected]> wrote: > The "Hide in todo" will make a subtask inactive and hide the task from > views that contain only Active tasks, and will be shown in gray in the > outline. Even more useful, a task with children that are hidden, is itself > active, which parent tasks are usually not (parents with outstanding > children, that is). So if I have > > PM Routine > Take supplements > Review tomorrow's schedule... > > If the subtasks are hidden, "PM Routine" will be active. > > I don't know how many tasks you should create but here's my > modified/inspired by GTD strategy. I don't break tasks down into component > actions in MLO until they are on the horizon. (or if they are recurring). > If I know steps that will be in the list I put them in the notes. So for > example, in our mold remediation project, I had "Get the ducts cleaned" - > clearly not actionable at that level of detail. But that couldn't be done > until all moldy materials were removed and a bunch of other things. I might > have a note with it, "need to solicit recommendations / look at schedule > dependencies" but I wouldn't break it down into steps until it was coming > up. The further the horizon, the less detail I have in my tree, > theoretically. (It's all a bit theoretical at this point for me; my task > tree is a mess, which those of you that know me can imagine is a rather > painful state for me :). > > > > On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 7:01 PM, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> P.S. Is it possible in MLO to have tick-lists for very small tasks which >> do NOT appear on all your normal lists of Actions & Projects etc ? >> > > > -- > Lisa > > ------------------------------ > Lisa Stroyan, mailto: [email protected] <[email protected]> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mylifeorganized/TwVqNHiNdXw/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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%2B2ywOQyh2xLtdJAgbAKPar9v09JO5DDRXR69e6OB25h7g%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/CAJYFk%2B2ywOQyh2xLtdJAgbAKPar9v09JO5DDRXR69e6OB25h7g%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. 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/CA%2BrSdyoGWE_4JmK1S2v2jRbVQgsSQ2RW6%3Dqd2y%2B1Bh56M%2BrYcg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
