Hi Dwight, I looked into "Next Actions" and although documented they are counter intuitive, or at least lack one basic feature. Priority. Also they are not consistent.
A next item to me is one that should be the item that most likely should be done next. When a task has a due date today, it should be displayed as that task before one that has no due date, as it scores higher. Same goes for "important" or "urgent" should go before "normal" priority. However there is no distinction. The place where you can see the distinction is in the "active items" which as you said shows a huge list that you rather want trimmed down to a smaller one with most likely to be picked items first. Also when I have a single child of a task that has the same parent which already had a task, I would expect that task to show up too. Like; - Task A - Task B -- Task B.1 I expect Task A and Task B.1 to be next items as they both lead to completion of a parent task. When Task B.1 is completed, Task A is again the only one picked for that branch. It does work when I make Task B a project, but why does it have to be a project? Anyway, I get the jist of the Next Actions but it sounds like the next actions should be the next smartest action to do, because the active actions as a big list would not be the place to look what the next action would be (hence the name), if you know what I mean... - Jorgen On Jun 8, 2016 15:42, "Jorgen Bodde" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dwight, > > Thank you for that info. Is the manual downloadable somewhere? I only have > the app, and it didn't come with any paperwork :-/ > > Thanks, > - Jorgen > On 8 Jun 2016 15:40, "Dwight Arthur" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, Jorgen. My profile right now has 582 active tasks. When I am ready to >> start something new, it would take too long to scan the whole list so I >> need a way to focus down on just the most likely things to do next. Next >> Actions is one way of doing that. An oversimplified explanation is that if >> you have a lot of projects each of which has a lot of active tasks, Next >> Actions will show you only one task per project: the first active task in >> each project. For a more complete explanation including what happens to >> tasks that are not in a project, see page 42 of the MLO Users Guide. >> -Dwight >> >> On Jun 8, 2016, Jorgen Bodde <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> What is the difference between next actions and active actions? I have >>> three tasks, all of them can be done (they show in active) but what makes >>> the 'next actions' algorithm decide to show me only two? What are >>> preconditions for 'next actions'? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> - Jorgen >>> >>> -- >>> 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 https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/CAEweA1cOx%2BfwGVK_s2Qy78GL34naJWTOwTcyqxqmcgVnYXDH5A%40mail.gmail.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/CAEweA1cOx%2BfwGVK_s2Qy78GL34naJWTOwTcyqxqmcgVnYXDH5A%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- Sent with *K-@ Mail >> <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.onegravity.k10.pro2>* >> - the evolution of emailing. >> >> -- >> 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 https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/7ea55762-7d8f-4689-adcd-787f22f78620%40dwightarthur.us >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/7ea55762-7d8f-4689-adcd-787f22f78620%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 https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/CAEweA1dxDWySQhs75pWvRNPZNYBZFQs20EuA-c7RL-GO%3Db9gKg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
