I have not been following this thread very carefully so this may have been said already but have you tried adjusting the Due date and Start Date sliders in the Tools > Options > ToDo Ordering options.
I think these have the effect of altering the rate at which the score increases as a task passes its start and due dates (but I have not used them myself other than to set them to their min values because I have a stack of old tasks that I have not marked done with Start/Due dates way in the past). I have to say that the whole computed score thing is a bit of a nightmare. In my case, I had real problems because I started using the Weekly Goal to boost priorities which was a big mistake because the algorithm (it turns out) applies the boost recursively so that more deeply nested leaf tasks are always more important than less deeply nested leaf tasks elsewhere in tree. Which to my mind was completely bonkers and drove me mad. Unfortunately, the guy that wrote the algorithm is a rare participant in the conference and Andrey (the software author) does not respond to discussions around scoring so I was left to work out a solution for myself (= don't use Weekly Goal). Anyway, you may find this thread helpful (if your brain doesn't explode first): https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mylifeorganized/3RjdJkYRKL8/discussion -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Grant Sent: 20 December 2010 7:42 PM To: MyLifeOrganized Subject: [MLO] Re: Computed sort does not make sense to me Anyone have any thoughts? Neal seems to not understand my main point that if I have two tasks, and they are in all ways identical, but one I give a start days say of yesterday, and a due date of in 2 days, that that task, that I KNOW I want to already be working on TODAY has a lower ranking than a task with all default settings. This to me is not logical (it has nothing to do with how ´I´ want it as Neal seems to think) as I have said nothing about wanting to be working on the task with no dates, yet MLO priority says this ´no date ´ task has a higher priority in regard to what I should be working on. How can a task with fixed date, in particular one in the past, have a lower rating than one with no fixed date (given all else is equal). To be clear(er), I do not, and do not want to, assign start dates to all my task, only to one that I know will take me some time to complete, so I want to be sure I start early enough. PS: Neal, I am not upset about anything, except maybe your condescending attitude -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en.
