SRhyse I don't know if you are missing my slightly subtle points deliberately - points which as I have stated are only valid when several hundreds of tasks are involved - but either way, I find your tone to be pompous, supercilious and offensive... So much so that frankly it is unworthy of a reply.
But while I'm here, if you can't see that using a field that is clearly labelled "Context" for two utterly different functional purposes [Context and Status] isn't "a workaround" there is no point in continuing this discussion. Regarding custom fields, they would only be useful as a potential Status field if some form of "inheritance" of properties [much like how Contexts already work] was involved, but I don't have the energy to repeat the details here again. Nonetheless, yes such a thing would completely & totally solve my Status field requirements. If you can't see that there is no point discussing that further either. Also for the record, the reason I have had to describe my position a number of times is simply because people like you seem to be serially incapable of understanding the points I have raised - and still don't! If you can't see that accusing me of being "mismanaging" my work is attacking me personally, rather than addressing the issues I raise you are clearly playing dumb deliberately. Suggestion: Please can we stick to the technical facts and drop the opinions. Bored now. J On Wednesday, January 10, 2018 at 5:39:22 AM UTC, SRhyse wrote: > > Hi John, > > I’m still not seeing where I’ve attacked you. If you take someone asking > you if you’ve tried looking at the way you’re using the program as a > personal attack worthy of multiple punctuation marks in reply, then maybe > public discourse is not for you. I will, however, concede that you have > become hysterical, and suggest that you save you exclamation points for > something serious. This is a public forum about an app, John. You raised an > issue and people responded to you. If I somehow struck a cord in what I > wrote, which was written and reads as an entirely calm and calculated > response to your issue, it’s probably because there is some truth to what I > said. > > Using contexts to see tasks in various views was one of the first things > ever suggested to you when you started using MLO, which was 4 or more years > ago as I recall. It’s also something repeatedly suggested to you in the > time since. I’m not sure why it’s taken you that long to try it, or how > that’s considered a “silly workaround” to anything. You can tag things with > contexts to have them appear on their own in flat lists, or in the > hierarchy they were written in. You can also arrange them within those > views however you’d like. The default views do exactly that. They even > named the context field after the GTD concept. There’s a GTD default > template within MLO Windows too that you’re asked to pick from when you > first start the program. > > Summing up what you said you have only a vague sense of in my previous > reply: you made a bunch of posts stating what you would like MLO to do, and > how you would like things in MLO to be organized and arranged. MLO already > does all of that. Now you’re replacing your concept of “GTD Lists” with > “doing GTD efficiently,” which sounds like another McGuffin. > > As I said regarding custom fields in MLO before, I think it’d be a > wonderful addition and would love to have it, but that it also seemed not > to address any of your problems in the slightest. Reading you go on about > your issues, that appears to remain correct. I’m also not sure it’s > possible for someone to agree with your frustrations with MLO because > you’ve never successfully articulated them, and they seem to change based > on the weather. > > It sounds like you’re just mismanaging your work, or frustrated with your > work, potentially both. There’s not an app for that. If anything, MLO might > make things worse because you can now mismanage your work on multiple > levels, and are now given constant reminders of the work you’re frustrated > about. > > Good luck with your GTD Lists, and have a good evening, morning, or > afternoon, depending on where you’re at. > > Best, > > S -- 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/bdf6df5c-a33b-4c91-93bc-da2cbe2da704%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
