Hi Dwight What do you think of my proposal to keep using the Next Actions, and to make sure that all standalone tasks are given the Alt/J treatment (painful but possible)?
That way any tasks within a genuine project that I wanted to do "Forced Next" could be made into Projects too... J On Tuesday, December 13, 2016 at 5:53:51 PM UTC, John . Smith wrote: > > PS > Dwight I have found a major flaw in your proposal, for using Next Actions > which is that what you suggest only works in the *root* directory. > Whereas I am using a different folder for each of my Areas of Life. The > problem is that the Next Actions view in MLO hides all stand-alone tasks. > And MLO fails to treat tasks that are within a Folder as if they were in > the root directory. > > The only workaround I can find is to manually make all my standalone task > become "Projects"! (This is slightly painful to remember to hit Alt/J for > every standalone task...). > > Obviously if you make everything in sight into a Project, then the Next > Action view simply would simply shows everything in sight! So in order to > just have only the *genuine* next actions within each project become > visible in the Next Actions view, I would need to make sure that all > actions within a project are NOT be flagged-up as being also Projects. > > This would be possible. Although given that I like to move stuff rather > fluidly between projects and actions this wouldn't be ideal. > > J > > > On the up-side I guess I could manually flag any actions up as being > "Forced Next" actions (see my previous comment) simply by making any action > I wanted to see on the the Next Actions list become a project (e.g. using > Alt/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/a1a01a77-3d0e-45ab-8e04-61a1fa583472%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
