Hi All, I have a question about how best to "feed" the subtasks of a project into my Next Actions list... The scenario is that I'm a school psychologist and this is my setup for completing educational reevaluations for special needs kids. I can "almost" use the "Complete subtasks in order" option that is in Properties > General. But the problem is that not ALL of the subtasks need to be competed in order. see image:
<https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-ONcds7lSG-w/VMF0lhAEdHI/AAAAAAAAAYM/ovLWcYSGpds/s1600/Screenshot%2B-%2B1_22_2015%2B%2C%2B2_06_57%2BPM.png> The first "Sample Student" uses a hierarchy to feed the sequential parts. As you can see, "email teachers" and "record review" can be done at any time but testing and report-writing can't happen until parent is contacted, etc. The annoying part about the nesting example is that the nested items are sortof in reverse order.... That is, "call parent" is the very first thing to do, but it is at the bottom... Also, maybe there will be other unforeseen disadvantages of having dozens of multi-level nests in my outline(?). In that regard, the bottom Sample Student is better because the tasks are all "children of" the Student project, and because the items are shown in logical order in the outline view. The problem with the dependency setup is that I'm affraid that if I need to add other tasks in there (e.g. "observe student in class") or take some out, then it might disrupt the "chain of dependencies," and there really no visual indication of what item is dependent on what... Hence the dilemma.. Which technique to use ... Which would you guys use? Are there any unforeseen factors that might throw me a curve ball later?? Thanks in advance, for any tips. :) -- 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/f96233d1-9b6f-4a49-8bec-a8398df2e01a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
