There's a position 4? So there is! I'd neglected that one. Thanks - I may well start to use that for some kind of category of information. Might be for my !Learning Notes category.
Glad my icons are finding uses. My personal favourite might just be the Someday/Maybe flying pig, because it sums up a chunk of my to-do list. On Tuesday, 16 February 2021 at 09:56:29 UTC [email protected] wrote: > On Sunday, January 24, 2021 at 4:16:20 PM UTC-8 Stéph wrote: > >> I'm glad you like the icons. I used to do a lot of trips, for a while, >> and spent a bit of the time creating my own, custom icons. I used simple >> shapes with specific colours for particular groups of icons, so that they >> would be quick to recognise at a glance. Back when you could get a Google >> Groups conversation thread pinned to the top of a forum, I started this >> thread to share icons and useful formatting and filtering examples >> <https://groups.google.com/g/mylifeorganized/c/hG6vICmLW1k/m/fT_8dsgFCAAJ> >> . >> >> The key with getting your icons to work, is to assign them to automatic >> formatting rules sorted into the right order (so the ones you want to see >> don't get overwritten by later rules). Here are screenshots of what I have >> at the start and the end of my automatic formatting rules list: >> > > It looks like it's the other way around for me - the earlier rules take > priority over any later ones. > > Thanks for the icons! I love them! Now I have icons for writing, phone, > house, computer, and errands. > > You can have more than positions 0-3 by the way! I'm using up to 4: > > position 0 - tells me if it's a folder or an active action > position 1 - notes > position 2 - location, tells me if it's errands (little car icon), > computer, or home > position 3 - tools, tells me if I need a phone or to do some writing (pen > and paper icon) > position 4 - reminder > > On 2/15/2021 7:28 AM, Stéph wrote: > > & is a hashtag for me, for searching or filtering my outline for roles. > > (Why use & as a tag - just because "& here's another thing I do"). > > This cracked me up - thanks! > > > > I use @ for location (errands, computer, home), > ! for status (waiting for, next action, daily task), > and no symbol for the role, just a short name for it. > > That keeps them ordered in the way I like - status, location, role. > > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/76bd5018-559f-4eaf-a76e-f04fc959f9cfn%40googlegroups.com.
