Personally I have found that filters that only show the Next ONE Task to be of pretty limited value. The thing that I find the most powerful & useful is Dwight's "manual" suggestion i.e. to review ALL the 'Active' tasks and to Star the ones for focusing on today (i.e. during the next 24 hours).
What I then like to do is quickly go through my lists AGAIN just looking at the Next Actions to see if any of them need a Star too, as given that they are all top of the list within each project, it is quite likely that they *should* be starred. (If not there is a slight question of why not?) That said, personally I do find that the Next THREE tasks to be a very much more useful view than Next One Task per project. The software I used most at present (Nirvana) allows you to dynamically choose how many (1 to 9) tasks per project you want to display. Intriguingly it even given you the option of stating that the entire project is either a Series or a Parallel project, and if a "Parallel" project it will force all tasks on to the Next [n] Tasks view. Unfortunately AFAIK there is now way of generating a Next [n] Tasks per project in MLO where [n] is any number other than 1. However even next one tasks is still slightly useful. J On Thursday, September 8, 2016 at 10:04:58 AM UTC+1, Jacob wrote: > > Thanks a lot, both of you. It seems Dwight's first solution is similar to > Laurence's. Dwight's is just a lot easier. I'm a fiddler on stuff like > this, so I already jumped into fiddling with urgency, importance and effort > sliders. I haven't quite figured out how they work yet, but I've managed to > get a list similar to Dwight's second solution. Right now I think I will go > with a combination of the two. Setting up stars at the "Next action" list > when planing the next day, and use the "Stars only" list during the day. > Not quite what I asked for, but in the end it might a be better solution? > > /Jacob > > -- 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/ce2d9837-d5e8-4a1c-811c-7db9078f4c36%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
