Dwight What I'm trying to create is a temporary list of contexts just *for today's use*.
i.e. I have a bunch of stuff to do today. They fall into about say 7 contexts. "Group by Contexts" puts them nicely into groups, but it *also* forces the Contexts to be in alphabetical order. As you say, one solution is to rename the contexts. Yes, that would work. But it's a time-consuming fiddly 'hammer to crack a nut'. I just want a quick temporary fix for today's use only. I guess what I'm wanting is a view that "groups tasks by context but allows the sort the sequence of contexts manually". To explain my requirement: This is mainly a psychological booster. i.e. I might say to myself: If spend 1 hour on "Dull-context-A" and then an hour on "Rather-tedious-context-Z" and 30 mins on "Boring-context-Q" then I can reward myself with some time doing "Context-F-for-fun". This will: A) Help me get cracking on "Dull-context-A" B) Remind me what the heck I'd committed (to myself) to then be doing next. And this would stop be getting distracted. J J P.S. I'd forgotten about F6 - thanks :) On Thursday, 5 November 2015 04:13:47 UTC, Dwight Arthur wrote: > Hi, John. I'm not sure that I actually see your problem. Contexts are > sorted in ascending alphabetical order based on the native collating > sequence of the device you are using. > > On Monday, November 2, 2015 at 1:13:04 PM UTC-5, J Smith wrote:You cannot > alter the collating sequence using drag and drop or any other tool that I > am aware of. You can, however, modify the context names to controll how > they sort. For example, suppose that your context names are 01-Errands, > 02-Personal_Admin, 03-Low_Brain_Energy and so on. The tasks would sort into > the order you seem to have in mind.You could then move errands to last > position by renaming it 04-Errands. > > Here's another way to approach this issue. > - Find the view named Active By Context and bring it up. > - hit F6 to collapse every context > - find the context you want to work on next and hit Ctrl-R to zoom in. > - when you are done witgh this context hit ctrl-alt-R then f6. > - look for your next context and repeat > >> >> >> Hello >> >> Is it possible to create a view whereby I drag & drop to change the sort >> order of Contexts? >> >> Scenario: >> e.g I want to do Errands, then some Personal_Admin, then some >> Low_Brain_Energy to recharge my brain, then at least one oft the some stuff >> I've been putting off (which I "Frog") then some sort of Down-time as a >> reward... You get the picture. >> >> So the thing is that I'm NOT expecting to complete all the items in each >> category, but will need to be pragmatic and move on when I run out of time. >> >> If I have multiple task within a project and have starred the project, I >> can keep going on the project until time is up. And I can of course put >> whole *projects* into whichever sequential order I choose v easily simply >> by using drag and drop. >> >> However it becomes harder to do the same things with clusters of tasks >> when are only connected by being in the same Context rather than sharing a >> parent task. >> >> It becomes a particular problem when I am looking at a *larger number* >> of tasks, which are falling in to a number of contexts, all of which I have >> starred as "do today if I can" >> >> See my problem? >> >> J >> >> >> >> > -- 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/99cb82f7-fb29-4e1f-bc36-ffb52e3e64c5%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
