PS I would particularly like to have a folders-only view possible when you hit F3.... as this would help cut and past tasks out of the inbox into the correct Folder.
On Wednesday, February 14, 2018 at 12:43:09 PM UTC, John . Smith wrote: > > Thanks, Olivier > > Well, initially I thought this was brilliant. > On the up-side it shows your folder hierarchy very cleanly and it works > well when used with F7 to open all the folders as far as possible. > > Furthermore, if you then save that View and give it a hotkey (e.g. > control/shift/alt/F) I can even apply that filter to the current view using > a hotkey. :) > > However, there are problems: > > 1. If the current Tab is locked it won't work without creating another tab > every time you use it (which causes confusion and clutter). > > 2. Also you can of course no longer open up any given folder to see what's > actually in it. (This is due to the View's filtering that will now be in > place!) > > 3. In order to see what's in each Folder, all you can do is - IF and only > if the folder has no child-folders - is double-click on that folder and > be taken to your first Tab on the left. > > BUT once you get there : > > a) If your Tab has filtering that stops that folder from being viewed > (e.g. it is using Active tasks view), then no row will have focus (which > feels confusing) [so this forces you to have an ALL tasks view...] > > b) If you get to the LH tab without losing focus, you now have a problem > of how to get *back *to that Folders- Only tab. If you click the folder > name again and it does have child tasks, then it will simply open up any > child tasks. And if you double-click on one of the child tasks, although it > will take you back to the Folders-only view, it will now lose focus because > task are not visible on that view! > > ==> Aaarrgh! Not quite so useful after all. > > If going this route, we are thrown into using one tab for multiple MLO > Views. > But even then there is no way to toggle this view on and off using your > hotkey, which would have been nice. > > > Conclusion > I would still prefer some inbuilt function that would expanding everything > just far enough to show all the Folders, so that this could be achieved > with no fuss on Locked tabs, without the need to change either Tab nor View > and ideally it should be a function that toggles. > > - Would anyone else vote for this feature? > > J > > > On Wednesday, February 14, 2018 at 8:03:40 AM UTC, robisme (Olivier R) > wrote: >> >> Then I suggest you build a specific view with a filter "is folder = >> true". >> Olivier > > -- 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/b578b63d-f918-45ef-8fef-ac30cd5b0b2f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
