Priorities are not part of GTD. But it is a much asked for thing by people
anyway. http://thinkcreatesolve.biz/mGSDEnhancements.html is a variation
of MGSD, which includes priorities and the ability to keep a chronological
set of separate notes (tiddlers) for each project. mGSD Enhancements is
being actively developed with further improvement expected shortly too.
Give it a try.
On 20 April 2012 09:32, simgsd <simon.meg...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> But since I only have a few projects each of which do have many tasks
>> or to-do's -- what's the proper mGSD term for it? -- what's really
>> useful would be assigning priorities to the tasks, so to-do's are
>> ordered by priority and worked on within each project. Any idea how
>> this can be achieved? Or does this idea makes sense?
>>
> I was exactly in the same situation and did the following:
> * (created the prtiority tags as described)
> * edited Tiddler TitleButtons, inserted everything between new---- ---- new
>
> !Action
> ...
> ...
> [[MonkeyGTDTheme##Subtitle]]
> </div>
> new---
> <div style="float:right;" >
> <span macro="multiToggleTag Priority allowNone:on"></span>
> </div>
> ---new
> <div macro="hideWhenTagged Done"
> style="padding-top:0.25em;padding-bottom:0.25em;">
> <span macro="multiToggleTag ActionStatus longVersion:on"></span>
> </div>
>
> <div macro="showWhen config.mGTD.getOptChk('MultipleContexts')">
> <span class="label">Context:</span><br/><span class="unboldLinks"
> macro="groupOfSingleToggleTags Context useCheckbox:yes"></span>
>
> This gave me nice three Toggle switches to select priority for Actions in
> the upper right corner of an Action. (I did not do that for projects, but
> only use priority for actions....)
> * created a new tiddler named "Actions (by Project)", tagged with "View
> excludeSearch":
> {{cols2{
>
> {{col{
>
> <<tiddler 'Ticklers Requiring Action'>>
>
> <<mgtdList title:'Next Actions (high)' startTag:Action tags:'Next && !Done
> && 1-high' view:Action mode:global
> group:Project
> gView:bold
> where:tiddler.hasActiveProject()
> newButtonTags:'Action Next'
> >>
>
> <<mgtdList title:'Next Actions (medium)' startTag:Action tags:'Next &&
> !Done && 2-medium' view:Action mode:global
> group:Project
> gView:bold
> where:tiddler.hasActiveProject()
> newButtonTags:'Action Next'
> >>
>
> <<mgtdList title:'Next Actions (low)' startTag:Action tags:'Next && !Done
> && 3-low' view:Action mode:global
> group:Project
> gView:bold
> where:tiddler.hasActiveProject()
> newButtonTags:'Action Next'
> >>
>
> <<mgtdList title:'Next Actions (no prio)' startTag:Action tags:'Next &&
> !Done && !1-high && !2-medium && !3-low' view:Action mode:global
> group:Project
> gView:bold
> where:tiddler.hasActiveProject()
> newButtonTags:'Action Next'
> >>
>
> }}}
>
> {{col{
>
> <<mgtdList title:'Waiting Actions' startTag:Action tags:'[(Waiting For)]
> && !Done' view:Action mode:global
> group:Project
> gView:bold
> where:tiddler.hasActiveProject()
> newButtonTags:'Action [(Waiting For)]'
> >>
>
> <<mgtdList title:'Pending Actions in Active Projects' startTag:Action
> tags:'Pending && !Done' view:ActionProj mode:global
> group:Project
> gView:bold
> where:tiddler.hasActiveProject()
> newButtonTags:'Action Pending'
> >>
>
> <<mgtdList title:'Future Actions' startTag:Action tags:'Future && !Done'
> view:Action mode:global
> group:Project
> gView:bold
> where:tiddler.hasActiveProject()
> newButtonTags:'Action Future'
> >>
>
>
> }}}
> }}}
>
>
> * work-advanced-"modify menu", inserted a new link to the new dashborad
> tiddler:
> [[Actions (by Project)]]
>
> * after that, you have a nice Action Dashboard showing all actions
> - grouped by priority
> - and below that, grouped by Project.
>
> * I did the same also for "by Area" and "by Context"
>
> Have fun!
>
> *S*
>
>
>> I probably need to study the basics of the design and philosophy of
>> GSD from some introductory material -- what's a good introduction? --
>> that said, I am a little unsure why GSD doesn't like the priority concept
>> at
>> the first place.
>>
>> Meng
>>
>> On Monday, March 26, 2012 1:57:48 PM UTC-4, Georg-Victor Voutsinos wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Meng Lu!
>>>
>>> You are not missing anything. Since the GTD approach does not prefer
>>> prioritization of tasks, mGSD accordingly does not implement
>>> prioritization - initially.
>>>
>>> But you can add prioritization to actions (and or projects) yourself,
>>> if you really want to. Here you can find a description how to do this:
>>>
>>> http://mgsd-docs.tiddlyspace.**com/#%5B%5BAdding%20Priority%**
>>> 20Support%5D%5D<http://mgsd-docs.tiddlyspace.com/#%5B%5BAdding%20Priority%20Support%5D%5D>
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Georg
>>>
>>> On 23 Mrz., 23:19, Meng Lu <lumeng....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > How to assign priority to tasks?
>>> >
>>> > I can't seem to find any related option/setting in mGTD. Am I missing
>>> > something obvious?
>>
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