Am 11.10.2016 um 16:51 schrieb Michael:
so Score should increase as time progresses.
Yes, that should be the case.
4. However, as time progresses one day past StartDate, suddenly Score
*decreases *by a considerable jump, and afterwards increases again.
That should in fact not happen. Note that the score also depends on the
score of the parent task - but that should only increase with time as
well, unless you changed some of its attributes. Also note that the
score is only computed when you're in a view that sorts by computed
score. Otherwise the values are not updated in the statistics.
So far I could not reproduce an erratic behavior in the way you
reported. However, I have two other grievances with the way start and
due day are used for computed score:
1) There are two possible interpretations of "start date":
a) Start date = the date when a task becomes feasible/doable. That does
not mean that you need to do it on that day, but that you can't do it
earlier. Not setting a start date means the task can theoretically be
tackled any time, even right now.
This is also how MLO interprets the date when determining "Active
Actions". Tasks with start date in the future are considered inactive.
However, when you use start date with this meaning, then it makes little
sense to factor it into the computed score. Since if the start date is
in the future, I don't see the task anyway in my list of actionable
items. And if it's in the past, I don't care how long it was in the past
or if a start date is set at all.
I solved this by setting the weight for "start date" to zero (moving the
slider to the left) in the "To-Do Ordering options". Now the "start
date" is not factored into the computed score at all.
b) Start date = the date when you plan/want to do the task, i.e. the
scheduled date for the task.
In that case, the MLO rule for "active actions" might bite you, because
you will see the task only when you scheduled it, even if you have time
and might want to do it earlier. So this makes only sense if you
schedule everything. But I like to leave things more open.
2) More serious, the problem with "due date".
Here my problem with the computed score is that tasks without a due date
get the same score as tasks with a due date of today.
In my opinion, tasks without a due date should get a lower date
contribution than all tasks with due date, because no due date to me
means "no deadline", "not urgent". Mathematically, they should be
treated like a task with due date +infinity, not like a task with due
date "today".
-- Christoph
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