Another enthusiastic +1 for the ability to flag items to do TODAY.
This is very important for perfectionists like me who tend to have too
many task items and get overwhelmed at seeing a long list.  In the
morning I need to be able to pick a subset of items to do that day,
and right now that's difficult in MLO.  A flagging feature like the
weekly goal would work great, although a general "flag" feature would
also work, as long as we can filter on it.

Stephen Weatherford

On Feb 15, 8:40 am, "Richard Collings" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Nick
>
> An excellent post which I also agree with a 100%.  Just picking out a couple
> of points to emphasise:
>
> >I could keep coming and scanning that
> > list over and over...but I am cursed with being easily
> > distracted, and with rethinking decisions that have already
> > been made.  So every time I scan the list is a potential
> > distraction, and a rather difficult moment where I have to
> > make a "What do I do now?" decision all over again.  
> > Sometimes these little decisions are difficult enough that I
> > deflect myself away from theTodaylist...and end up wasting
> > time for 20 minutes or longer on a completely irrelevant task
> > that is psychologically "easier" to perform at that juncture.
>
> This is exactly my experience.   What I want is MLO to deliver tasks to me
> in a order that have decided earlier in the day and to do so in a way that
> avoids that 'What should I do next' moment that you describe so well (with
> resulting prevarication/loss of momentum)
>
> > If I could manually re-order this list of 5 to 20
> > Next-Actions-in- Current-Context, I could do this re-ordering
> > ONCE during the day and just work my way down the list...I
> > would be much less tempted to distract myself with something
> > irrelevant.  
>
> Yes, yes, yes!!
>
> > For a long while I've tried to use the
> > Importance and Urgency sliders to accomplish this re-
> > ordering, but I always end up feeling frustrated, because
> > sometimes it will be almost impossible to get a task to land
> > exactly in the order I want...and I also usually spend a few
> > seconds cursing the lack of the ability to manually reorder a
> > Todo list in MLO!  It would be fabulous to have this ability.
>
> Glad its not just me.  This is exactly my experience.
>
> Richard

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