Hi Dwight, Thank you for clarifying that. I will look at a view sorting on computed score. I do use hierarchical views but indeed next actions forces me artificially into too much structure, like making projects when they really aren't. But every small step towards a better overview is a good one..
Wirh regards, - Jorgen On 9 Jun 2016 00:07, "Dwight" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> 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? 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