I've been away for a year or so. Did anything ever come of this suggestion?
J On Wednesday, 16 November 2016 22:46:07 UTC, John . Smith wrote: > > > Not sure how child tasks should be handled TBH. > To me child tasks are self-evident. Which is that when you add a task to > something that is in one of the board lists on a board, it self-evidently > keeps both the Board and the List that has focus i.e. it's 'parent' - if > there is a parent as such that is. > > One problem with MLO is that this is not true in MLO. i.e. From what I can > see, the only properties a new Task in MLO inherits are: > A) The position in the folder(s) > B) Any Context tags of any parent task > C) The Hide "Branch in to do" status of any parent task > > To get clear, in MLO if you try an use something like Flag to control > something like 'actionable status' or 'Area of Responsibility', every > single time that you create a new task, you need to manually set it's flag. > And this needs to be done for each and every new task. And this soon > becomes painful. > > Conclusion > Come on MLO - bring on the boards! > > J > > > On 16 November 2016 at 19:14, Richard C <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Not sure how child tasks should be handled TBH. >> >> But I have just noticed that in addition to custom fields, Asana have >> now added boards: >> http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2016/11/15/asana-moves-into-trello-turf-with-boards/#5f48535353b9 >> >> It is what people are looking for (and IME experience using Trello, they >> are very helpful in visualising your work) >> >> And boards are definitely part of Kanban (but there is a lot more to it - >> although I am not an expert) >> >> Richard >> >> On Wednesday, 16 November 2016 15:08:46 UTC, John . Smith wrote: >>> >>> 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. 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