Hi, this is a feature I'm asking for several years See the complete thread here : https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/mlo-beta/ghost$20task%7Csort:relevance/mlo-beta/a5X2OR0egzU/qUGo_Eo8p5cJ
Olivier Le lundi 6 mars 2006 08:45:19 UTC+1, Pegasus a écrit : > > Currently, there is no way to make a certain task be subordinate to two > different parents. Suggestion: Make it possible to Copy and Paste-Share > (or whatever) it under a different parent. When you double click this > task under whichever parent and make changes under Properties, it will > update both sets (as they are essentially the same). > > This will improve the flexibility of MLO tremendously and allow for > more complex project managements: > > - it will allow for tasks that "kill two birds with one > stone" - that belong to more than one project (matrix-like > projects, e.g. "go jogging with grandpa" will satisfy both "spend > time with grandpa" and "exercise" projects). > > - It will also allow for those folks (like me) who like to > plan by the day: e.g. "Daily Tasks - 13 Feb 2006": where these > tasks are actually copied and pasted from big complex projects > elsewhere. I know that's what the To-do pane is for, but it is often > cluttered with Tomorrow's tasks and various future tasks including > those without an assigned date (unless they are hidden). > > Currently the only way to do this is to create a new task and copy info > over and basically hide the task in the To-do pane. i.e. it's a > duplication of resources. > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this won't be too difficult > as the "child field" in a task "object" would already be some > sort of list (i.e. one can have multiple child tasks - it is a > one-to-many relationship), and it does not matter that one of the child > tasks also appear in some other parent's child list. > > Hope you'll consider including this as a future feature. > > I think MLO is great by the way, and I find it quite indispensable as a > planning tool. > > One other little suggestion I would have is this: give it the option to > play a sound (configurable by user perhaps) whenever the checkbox is > ticked - it's just a little "feel good" factor on completing a > task, like a milestone kind of thing. I know this sounds a bit cheesy, > but as Napoleon once said, "Men will die for ribbons," and > sometimes we all need a little encouragement in the day to keep us > going. > > > Thank you. > > -- 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/7050fdb1-7b6b-4983-bb94-e2559c89f823%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
