Hi, birdvibe. I'm not sure that I follow how you put items to sleep.
Possibly because I have never used autoformatting (because it's
supported only on Windows, which I am using less and less)
I often find a task which meets all of my criteria for a spot on my top
to-do list but which for some reason I do not want to do today. I would
like to make them go away from my to-do list until tomorrow. For many of
my tasks which have no start/due date, it's just a matter of setting
start date to tomorrow which is only a few taps. But for tasks that
already have start or due dates, especially recurring tasks, that might
have undesirable repercussions. So I keep a task called "wait for
tomorrow" with tomorrow's star date and highest importance. Every
morning this task appears at the top of my top to-do list. I duplicate
it, mark it completed (which causes yesterday's postponed tasks to
appear) and reschedule the new duplicate for one day into the future.
Then if I want to postpone a take I add a dependency on "wait for
tomorrow"This whole process seems clumsy to me but I have gotten fast at
it and I only do it once a day.
-Dwight
On 8/15/2016 11:43 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Hi Chris:
Many months after you wrote that glorious reply regarding, inheriting
sub-items, I am only now noticing it. Sorry about that.
Yes, I do, do a lot of filtering using custom views, but now it's not as
relevant as it was back when I initially wrote up that question.
Because of the extra work involved with management of dates, I just gave
up on that approach altogether...in favor of a this simplified approach:
1) I categorize all tasks into main categories using color coded
customer formatting. I run several businesses and each business is a
main item.
2) I flag the items I need to focus on each day ACROSS the main items.
This way in the flag view, important tasks a projects from each business
show up.
3) I put to sleep items for X amount of time important items that are
too important to unflag but which I don't want to distract me. I do this
using Automatic Formatting. Items that are "sleeping" are grayed out
for anywhere from 15 minutes to 8 hours.
If there's anyone else who uses "putting items to sleep" let's discuss.
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 12:27 PM, chrisleeuk <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Many questions on the MLO forum are hard to understand, this is
because the way people think and organize things within MLO can be
very different.
As far as I'm aware it's not possible to set a global option that
will prevent inherited dates in sub tasks.
You can of course uncheck the 'Inherit parent dates' option, or
remove the dates , but only after the sub task has been created.
That's not to say such an option wouldn't be useful to your way of
working.
However beyond this answer, I think we need to look at what the
alternative options are.
It looks like you are trying to create some kind of list of high
level parent tasks, without showing all the small detail of the
individual sub-tasks?
Obviously dates are important to what you are trying to do, as you
are trying to get a view on today's workload.
From my way of thinking (and this is just an opinion) outside of
your actual view, it would seem logical that sub-tasks would have
either the same date as the parent or an earlier date if I set one.
I could be wrong, but I think the issue is, that your trying to
remove the inherited sub-task dates to achieve your high level view?
If I was trying to achieve this kind of thing myself, I wouldn't
fight with the dates, I'd probably enable the flag column in the
outline view (right clicking on column header and select 'flag')
Then I'd flag the important 'parent' tasks that I want to appear in
my non-hierarchical view (by right clicking the flag column. You
can manage and create flags from the tools menu.
Then I'd create a custom view, that shows tasks today that are
flagged with my special 'high level' flag.
This isn't very automatic of course, but your only going to need to
flag the single parent tasks, rather than each child one.
For me this is the only way it would work, as I have quite a complex
hierarchy of children of children etc and it would be impossible for
MLO to know what level the tasks should be shown at.
You could use other ways, such as setting contexts only on the
parents, or staring items you want to appear and filtering on that.
Another option, is if all your parent tasks are in a single folder,
or a few folders, you could create an advanced filtering rule, that
states that in order to be visible in your list the ParentName must
be a certain value:
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That way, anything that does not have a specific parent, i.e sub
tasks, would be filtered out of the view.
This is of course moving towards the advanced side of MLO, so it
will depend on how comfortable you are with the software.
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