Hi, John. The times that i have done something similar I have made a high priority manual list (return calls, do paperwork, reply to pending emails) and when each item comes to the top of my today list i open the associated context and do whats there. Inelegant but it works. If i wanted an elegant solution i would probably use folders in place of contexts, assign an appropriate importance to each folder, let computed score propagate parent importance to the children, and then just work off of a list ordered by computed score -Dwight MLO Betazoid on Android SGN4
On Nov 5, 2015, J Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >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/0762bc3e-36f6-4581-9be0-c52254cab962%40dwightarthur.us. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
