Hi, Jorgen. There are usually several different ways of doing any one
thing in MLO, and there are usually people who strongly prefer each of
the alternatives. At first review, it looks like Next Actions is not for
you. You should have a look at Computed Score, which you will find
somewhere in that manual that you just downloaded. I should acknowledge
that I do not often use either Next Actions or Computed Score, I use a
series of very customized views that exactly match the way I work and
would probably be of no use to anyone else.
I should mention that the snippet you showed with tasks A, B, and B1
will never appear in that way in any task-list of active actions. No
task is considered active until all of its subtasks are completed. So in
the snippet shown, if B1 is shown then B will be hidden.
One more pointer, have you looked into the difference between flat views
also called task-lists, versus hierarchical views? Hierarchical views
are typically useful for creating, managing and reviewing your tasks
while task-lists are typically more useful for working on and completing
your tasks.
-Dwight
On 6/8/2016 11:51 AM, Jorgen Bodde wrote:
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]
<mailto:[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]
<mailto:[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]
<mailto:[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
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