Eric Belatedly...
Eric Allen wrote on 2010/05/09 23:18:
More generally, I guess I'm not a fan of various mechanisms for prioritization- I keep coming back to the GTD book, which I think tends to focus on keeping lists trimmed/clean rather than letting them blow out of proportion and then using stars, re-ordering, etc. But then again it has been a while since I read the book, and I know we're not trying to be doctrinaire here :) I totally agree with you about prioritization. As far as I'm concerned, tickets that try to get us to add some kind of ordering or prioritization are inherently invalid, but I do my best to be open-minded. We don't seem to have particularly strong sentiment in this direction, though, so I feel comfortable ignoring the suggestion (to add prioritization) for now :)
If you have 10 minutes, there's a podcast by David Allen at http://www.davidco.com/podcasts/play/45.html you might find interesting. He discusses the dangers of trying to do ABC prioritisation; but also the benefits of keeping your "hot" tasks in view, so you're not constantly scanning a huge list. With Tracks I can get this partially using "star" and pushing off anything that I decide to defer with "+1" and "+7", and I can always set spurious "Due" dates to get ordering -- but this is hackish and slow, and I'd prefer to keep due dates exclusively for hard deadlines.
I think of DnD re-ordering of lists not as a way to hack Tracks into an evil non-GTD abomination, but just as the quickest way of juggling what I've decided to work on. This is how it works in the Stuff-To-Do plugin for Redmine -- http://github.com/edavis10/redmine-stuff-to-do-plugin -- and it helps me keep focussed.
This has just become a bigger itch for me since I switched to using Tracks on my N900 as my main tracker. Other threads have discussed the limits of the Tracks UI on even a high-res mobile browser; without DnD of tasks, keeping my "hot tasks" in view is a PITA. Are you viscerally opposed to implementing this, or to seeing others implement it?
Just my tuppennorth, YMMV :-) Regards, Thomas _______________________________________________ Tracks-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rousette.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/tracks-discuss
