I think for now, using hotkeys assigned to both flat list view & the
outline view is the fastest way to switch between views to see the
parent/project task.

On 29 October 2017 at 21:55, Mark <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a question relating to a (relatively minor) pain point I’m
> experiencing:  Since I have to keep copious notes on my projects for status
> reports & frequent phone call requests for updates, I choose to keep them
> at the Project level, mostly, rather than the task level, since this
> consolidates the number of places I need to look and also makes it easy to
> summarize the info when I need to provide it.  However, there seems to be
> no way to quickly get to the parent unless I’m in an Outline view (and yes,
> this issue is exacerbated by the fact that I can’t sort by computed-score
> in Outline views, which is the subject of a different topic I posted).  So,
> basically, I have to pick my activities from a To-Do view since that’s the
> only place I see them by importance, then switch to the Outline view to
> find the Project/Parent that contains the notes in order to document the
> activity.  Fortunately, the currently selected Task is automatically
> focused in the All Tasks Outline view, which makes the process a bit less
> tedious, but it sure would be nice if there were a way of navigating up the
> tree - perhaps it’s there and I haven’t found it?  (Ideally, if the Full
> Path shown in the details pane on the right consisted of hot links to each
> of the elements, with the elements color-coded based on their status of
> Folder/Project/Task, that would be awesome, but there may be other and even
> better ways of doing it, as well...)
>
> Mark
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