Dwight Yes you understand my requirement precisely. To recap - the thinking behind my suggestion is that Next Action is pretty useful pretty often, but that it sometimes (in fact quite often) is too rigid.
However I don't quite understand what you are saying. Yes I am happy to use a dedicated MLO Flag for this purpose, (or a special dedicated context), but if I understand you correctly are you saying that I would need to submit a formal request to allow Advanced Filters to detect Next Actions (and that this would take many months to be execute by the MLO team) ? If so this is a huge disappointment. 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 a topic in the > Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mylifeorganized/INyMCDEUpJ4/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/001e01d02d49%24fa70bfa0%24ef523ee0%24%40dwightarthur.us > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/001e01d02d49%24fa70bfa0%24ef523ee0%24%40dwightarthur.us?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%2BrSdyoovEChGs5ms8pbJZTiwsnyijuhVoyL1Zua41jNqtH1vw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
