Re: [MLO] Option for newly added tasks to appear at start of manually sorted To Do list

2016-01-16 Thread althegreybeard
Hi Joel, I searched the forum for your Speedbox posts but no results :( I am curious from this post what your Speedbox idea is. Thanks, - Al On Friday, February 28, 2014 at 2:29:44 AM UTC-8, Joel Azaria wrote: > > I've worked and work now much as I suspect you do: spurts of days to maybe >

Re: [MLO] Option for newly added tasks to appear at start of manually sorted To Do list

2014-03-03 Thread Richard C
Thanks for the suggestion, Dwight The context approach might work but the problem is that the next 'calm place' may be several days (or even weeks off) and when I am in this Arrgh mode - I need to see an immediate list of tasks from which I pick the most important and postpone (= set

Re: [MLO] Option for newly added tasks to appear at start of manually sorted To Do list

2014-03-03 Thread Richard C
Await with interest! On Friday, 28 February 2014 10:29:44 UTC, Joel Azaria wrote: I've worked and work now much as I suspect you do: spurts of days to maybe weeks on end in the office, spotted days and/or spurts of days in the field. My current position is just that but my field time often

Re: [MLO] Option for newly added tasks to appear at start of manually sorted To Do list

2014-02-28 Thread Joel Azaria
I've worked and work now much as I suspect you do: spurts of days to maybe weeks on end in the office, spotted days and/or spurts of days in the field. My current position is just that but my field time often takes me to construction/renovation projects rather than office buildings. I understand

[MLO] Option for newly added tasks to appear at start of manually sorted To Do list

2014-02-27 Thread Richard C
I have two modes of working as an IT Consultant: 1. Planning mode: when I am working at home, most of the time, I tend to be working in quite a structured way - I won't go into the detail but this involves heavy use of MLO to plan and manage my time 2. Arrrgh mode:(I don't

Re: [MLO] Option for newly added tasks to appear at start of manually sorted To Do list

2014-02-27 Thread Dwight Arthur
Hi, Richard. I'm familiar with the problem of tasks coming at me faster than I'm able to set them up properly. My solution may not work for you as i have never used manual sorting. Every one of my tasks has one or more contexts. When I'm being overwhelmed by new tasks I create them without