No shortcut key that I can find, John. However, how about including the "importance" column in one of your views? You can then select multiple tasks, right-click on the importance column and select one of 7 preset levels of importance. If you're editing multiple tasks at the same time, it becomes almost as quick as a shortcut key.
Now I've tried it, I might even start using the "importance" parameter myself. Stéph On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 18:23:31 UTC+1, John . Smith wrote: > > Hello > > Is there any way to set up a hotkey to change the Importance of a task? > > Background > I had a minor epiphany, on a walk today. > > I need to *just do the extremely important tasks*. (e.g. Importance = > "Max") > > And then, once they are done, then I can move to the *fairly *important > tasks (e.g. Importance = "A lot") > And then, only if time permits to take on the task of lesser importance... > etc etc. > > What has happened to me personally, is that over time too much crud has > built up in my system most of which isn't all that important. The crude > tool of making tasks either active or "someday-maybe", is also too blunt an > instrument, as one ends up with an unfeasibly large number of tasks which > one doesn't want to delete just yet, and yet which are too > time-consuming to review in their entirety on a regular basis. Using the > Start Date to kick less important stuff down the road doesn't solve the > problem either... Here's the thing: I just don't want to even SEE tasks > until I am in the mode that is ready to even think about taking them on. > > The problem is that allocating actual values to the Importance field seems > cumbersome using the mouse. Reluctantly I concede that I could try setting > up some new, dedicated Context tags, but this too feels cumbersome as I > already have rather too many contexts for comfort(!). Also turning off one > Context and turning on another feels fiddly. Another suggestion would be to > use Flags but I already use Flags for other purposes... And in any case my > setup does already use Importance for it's intended purpose for certain > views... > > Any suggestions? > > J > > > -- 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/5ce9bfba-4078-4ea3-9241-df416466e9c4%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
