Dear Domas, In MLO android, Settings>General Settings>Quick Date selections
Change due date → start date If you frequently set bort start & due date, then choose "Do Not Open any date" Hope this is helpful :-) On 12 April 2018 at 16:01, Domas <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, hold menu does give some useful shortcuts (I'm particularly using it > to add Contexts and to Delete tasks). However its Date button means "Due > date", which I'm not using very much. There's now way of setting it up to > launch "Start date". Maybe that's slightly different on Android, I'm not > sure. > Thanks anyway! > > > On Wednesday, April 11, 2018 at 11:04:28 PM UTC+3, Stéph wrote: >> >> Though MLO does have the problem of a lot of taps to do some frequent >> adjustments, there's often more than one way to do things. For your example >> (in iOS, so I guess it's similar for Android), you don't have to swipe >> left. Instead, you can tap and hold on a task, which brings up a menu of >> frequently edited parameters, including a quicker link to edit the dates. >> The advantage is it takes you straight into edit mode, rather than having >> to view and then tap edit. >> >> Hope that's helpful, if you didn't already know about the tap-and-hold >> menu. >> >> Stéphane >> >> On Tuesday, 10 April 2018 06:55:11 UTC+1, Domas wrote: >>> >>> As a side note the Android app suffers a lot from this problem (too many >>> clicks to complete things). >>> As an example, when I'm using Inbox (Google's email app) I can delay >>> tasks with two clicks: >>> >>> 1. slide the item to the side >>> 2. select the desired time. >>> >>> In MLO I'm using *Start Date* to indicate that task should be started >>> working on. >>> To delay the MLO task: >>> >>> 1. slide to the left to see the options >>> 2. click anywhere to start edit mode >>> 3. click Start Date to start dates editing mode >>> 4. click Start Date to display calendar >>> 5. select the date (very inconvenient, no possibility to have >>> predefined dates/times) >>> 6. click Ok >>> 7. click Save >>> 8. click Done >>> 9. click Back >>> >>> Amazing. If I would like to select the time, it's even more clicks. >>> This completely undermines the use of this functionality within the app. >>> >>> On Friday, April 6, 2018 at 6:02:01 PM UTC+3, Stéph wrote: >>>> >>>> I agree with you, Domas. People have systems with varying complexity. >>>> My goal is to use as few parameters as possible, to minimize the time I >>>> spend clicking an editing tasks and to maximize the time I have for >>>> actually doing those tasks. (Having said that, I do spend a lot of time >>>> writing a lot of date-stamped notes, so that I can look back and see how a >>>> project or task developed.) >>>> >>>> Stéphane >>>> >>>> On Friday, 30 March 2018 06:28:11 UTC+1, Domas wrote: >>>> >>>>> I agree here. >>>>> That's the reason why my use of Importance/Urgency is very limited in >>>>> MLO - it's too complicated to change it quickly. >>>> >>>> -- > 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/9e63f019-c0d1-4ad5-8ddd-f1dd2e9d580f%40googlegroups. > com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/9e63f019-c0d1-4ad5-8ddd-f1dd2e9d580f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CAMMFJ%2Bdejr4W%2BRy6dfZJ2nkAUjCrbxmAnCsvqiUUet6CGLYG%2Bg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
