Is your thinking to use the different lists for different 'actionable statuses'? i.e. Is your thinking to facilitate a dead-easy movement of tasks between different statuses?
And would new child tasks added to a parent task that is in any given list, inherit the same list as the parent task? If so then I would ABSOLUTELY agree! J PS Btw, is this the same thing as a Kanban method/view? On 16 November 2016 at 14:38, <[email protected]> wrote: > I have long been arguing in the beta group for a List capability like > Trello. > > The combination of a hierarchical task list and lists would be a killer > USP in my view. > > Richard > > On 2016-11-16 12:59, John . Smith wrote: > >> For me quick informal hierarchies are crucial. >> >> Only today I added three thank-you letters that I need to write. And >> in MLO it was really nice to be able to, having entered each of them >> as a standalone task to quickly group them into "WRITE LETTERS" (I >> tend to use caps when something has children) in a matter of seconds. >> >> GTDNext allows for something similar although it has no mobile phone >> app and after a blazing start about 18 months ago, it seems to have >> lost development momentum. >> >> What drives me nuts about MLO however is the lack of a field for >> "actionable status". (Do ASAP, Someday, Maybe, Waiting, Soon, Later, >> etc). [Hence this thread!] >> >> Meanwhile, I have been having another look at Trello for using with >> the GTD-like method. With Trello you can set up a different List (of >> Cards) for each "actionable status" and because of the way lists are >> laid out vertically beside each other (i.e. Kanban system?), it's then >> trivially easy to move stuff between Lists of Cards. I haven't quite >> worked out how to do thing like Next [n] Tasks per Project... Nor how >> to create 'focus-on-this-today'... >> >> On Monday, November 14, 2016 at 8:34:17 AM UTC, Adam Byers wrote: >> >> John, >>> >>> It's interesting you bring up the pedantic nature of IQTell. I am >>> encountering the same limitations now that I've been trying it for a >>> few days. I was excited about the tight integration with email, and >>> cloud based services, but it is rather rigid. One of the things I >>> love about MLO is the hierarchical structure it has. I have been >>> looking for the past few years for a software program that supports >>> this. I used to really love using Todomatrix on the Blackberry >>> because of this feature. I think my brain works in this manner for >>> sure. For me, the ability to see all of my projects and the related >>> tasks that are required to complete them from a top down perspective >>> is paramount. >>> >>> On Thursday, November 10, 2016 at 5:44:12 AM UTC-7, John . Smith >>> wrote: >>> >>> I used to think the lack of a mobile app was a deal-breaker, but >>>> personally I am so intensely dissatisfied with all the task major >>>> management systems available (and I have asked around and tried >>>> all the leading tools) that I would now settle for anything that >>>> runs on Windows 10 , yes even stand alone software. That said, >>>> the obvious way forward nowadays would be to have a web >>>> application that is customised to work reasonably well on a mobile >>>> interface. >>>> >>>> Yes, I tried IQTell but found it rather pedantic. I particularly >>>> dislike the fact that as far as I could tell it forces you to >>>> decide whether something is a project or a standalone task right >>>> from the start (i.e. there is no easy say to move between a >>>> Project and multi-part task and a standalone task). As such this >>>> simply isn't how the human brain works. Most of the time one >>>> thinks in terms of desired outcomes and stuff that needs to be >>>> done, without categorising it artificially into such things. >>>> >>>> J >>>> >>> >> -- >> 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/1cc83d99- >> 1a99-40e9-aea5-6266108b6ecb%40googlegroups.com >> [1]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> Links: >> ------ >> [1] >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/1cc83d99- >> 1a99-40e9-aea5-6266108b6ecb%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium= >> email&utm_source=footer >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/to > pic/mylifeorganized/aHvLaU7lGuE/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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/ms > gid/mylifeorganized/578aeaa94233e99aa6e675ec838108db%40rcollings.co.uk. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. 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