Hey Michael,

It's actually pretty simple. The sub-task having its own importance/urgency 
actually increases or decreases overall importance/urgency relative to the 
parent. It is very clever. Imagine a task dear to your heart: "Improve my 
relationship with my wife" and then as a subtask you have: "Buy her a 
gift". Given that buying your wife a gift contributes to improving your 
relationship with her, it wouldn't make sense if "Buy her a gift" wouldn't 
stand out from the other mundane tasks by virtue of it having "Improve my 
relationship with my wife" as a parent.

By extension, some subtasks are more important/urgent than others relative 
to the parent itself. "Find quality time to spend with my wife" is going to 
beat "Buy my wife a gift" everytime relative to "Improve my relationship 
with my wife". You want that to reflect in the computed-score. 

I hope that helps!

Matthieu

On Monday, August 29, 2022 at 10:02:22 PM UTC+2 [email protected] wrote:

> In my quarterly wish-list I’m going to suggest (for me) that sub-tasks not 
> look to the parent.  Why?  First, because I still don’t understand it!  
> Second, if “Reply to emails” is low priority, but “Reply to customer X’s 
> email” is urgent priority, I want it to be treated like any other task with 
> high urgency.
>
>  
>
> NOTE: Maybe it already does! Again, I’ve never understood how a sub-task 
> can both inherit and have it’s own importance/urgency.
>
>  
>
> *Michael Emerald, CFA*
>
> Sturbridge, MA
>
>  
>
> *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]> *On 
> Behalf Of *Matthieu B
> *Sent:* August 28, 2022 07:32
> *To:* MyLifeOrganized <[email protected]>
> *Subject:* [MLO] MLO conceptual inconsistency
>
>  
>
> Hi,
>
>  
>
> You know how importance/urgency can be inherited relative to the parent 
> task using computed-score? By extension, tasks that have others depend on 
> them should also inherit increased importance/urgency if it is the case 
> that these subsequent tasks are higher-up. Imagine task "Avoid world 
> apocalypse" depends on task "Study for your finals". Even without a direct 
> parent-child relationship, it should be understood that "Study for your 
> finals" becomes crucial in the the larger scheme of things. Right now, I 
> doesn't feel right for me to use dependencies while also relying on 
> inheritance of computed-score because it's not consistent across the board. 
> I find myself copying and pasting subtasks instead...
>
>  
>
> Maybe something to think about for MLO 6 (Desktop)?
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