Dwight, that makes sense. I'm sure as I use MLO more, I would start needing that kind of precision on my tasks. However, it seems in order to make the program as easy and flexible as possible, there should still be a way to input task importance and urgency with a minimum of precision -- as you already can from the right-click context menu on the Urgency and Importance columns in the outline/task list.
On Thursday, December 27, 2012 5:12:18 AM UTC-7, Dwight Arthur wrote: > > Chris: you’re welcome. This configuration screen really belongs as a page > in Settings. > > Let me tell you why I need so many levels of urgency. Some of the views I > use have multiple sorts, with completed tasks at the bottom, starred tasks > at the top, and within each section tasks are in the order I want them > done. I get the "order I want them done" by assigning decreasing urgency > values. Usually I will decrease the urgency value by 4 for each new task, > because this gives room to add tasks _between_ other tasks without > laborious renumbering. I click the urgency bar to get into the right > neighborhood, then use the left or right arrows to get to the correct > value. > > I wouldn't mind having the five easy selection buttons so long as I didn't > loose the ability to manually set a precise value. > -Dwight > > Chris <fugo...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > > Wow, thank you Dwight! ... I never would have found that. > > > > On Wednesday, December 26, 2012 4:04:59 PM UTC-7, Dwight Arthur wrote: > > Chris: I’m happy to tell you that the settings option you want is actually > already there. It’s just terribly hard to find, but I’ll tell you where it > is. > > > > Make certain that the properties pane is _*not*_ minimized. If it is, > click on the word “properties” to bring it back up. Then, right-click on > the word “properties” to bring up a context menu. It should say Expand > All/Collapse All/Configure. Select Configure, and at the bottom you will > find “Edit Notes in Full panel”. Turn it off. > > -Dwight > > > > *From:* mylifeo...@googlegroups.com [mailto:mylifeo...@googlegroups.com] *On > Behalf Of *Chris > *Sent:* Tuesday, December 25, 2012 7:26 PM > *To:* mylifeo...@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* [MLO] Re: Features In MLO v3 I Prefer To Remain In MLO v4 > > > > Doremi, > > > > These are all great suggestions. I know exactly what you're talking about > with those little markers underneath the slider scale. I don't understand > why anyone would need that much precision on entering the importance or > urgency of a task. I mean, it's like someone asking you to rate a movie on > a scale of 1 to 100 stars -- wouldn't 10 stars or 5 stars be much easier? > I'm not going to complain too much, but a lot of other task/to-do programs > just have a dropdown with Lower, Low, Normal, High, Highest as their values > for importance or urgency. > > > > Also on the Task Notes panel -- I'd prefer there to be a setting on > whether or not the task properties panel hides when you're entering notes. > I personally think that the default space to edit the task title and type > the task notes into (95 pixels tall, with about 240 characters of the notes > visible) is a perfectly sufficient space to type notes into (of course if > it's more text than that, it can scroll). There might only be a few tasks I > would need to type more into the notes than a couple hundred characters. > How about a setting in the preferences called "Automatically Hide Task > Properties to Edit Note?" (Yes/No) > > > > > On Monday, December 24, 2012 8:24:44 AM UTC-7, Doremi wrote: > > Yes, it's under General. What I'm saying is that MLO v3 has thos little > markers where you can just click on it to set them in the desired scale > after which you can move the slider to fine tune the value if you want but > not necessarily. > > > On Monday, December 24, 2012 8:33:42 AM UTC-5, Joshua Cearley wrote: > > > > On Sunday, December 23, 2012 1:54:44 PM UTC-6, Doremi wrote: > > Please note that when you see a (?) beside a word, it means I'm not > sure if I used the correct terminology. > > - Importance and Urgency Scales. I preferred to have the old markers > which I can click on the set specific value of 'less', 'min', > 'normal', 'more' and 'max' then fine tune the value later if I really > needed a different value (which is seldom.) > > > > I see those in the properties tab under General. > > > > - Task Notes and Properties. MLO v3 had separate tabs for Notes and > Properties. And a section for Notes within the Properties. The > problem with MLO v4 is that when I want to enter a one liner or two in > the Notes by clicking on the Notes pane(?), the Notes "pane' expands > and the Properties pane(?) contracts. I have to click on the > Properties to make it's sections visible again. I don't want to have > to do that. I think that if I really needed the task notes to expand > to full pane, I'll just click on the Properties Section Header(?) to > collapsed the Properties. Collapsing the Properties Pane should NOT > be automatic. > > > > Indeed; things should really keep their sizes, unless you have a Visual > Studio-style thumbtack option to toggle its allowance to move windows for > you. > > > > > > Tab pinning is probably intended to function like Chrome, only the ability > to set an icon for the tab isn't in yet. 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