Hi MCA,
Thank you for sharing your Phrase Express tips.
You mentioned that you have a lot of tasks that you change to future
dates. There are probably much more efficient ways to manage your task list
in MLO, if you are interested in brainstorming them. You might consider a
process where you mark those that you are going to work on rather than
changing all of the ones you are not. Contexts, Flags, and Star are ways to
do this.
I find it more efficient to use start date only for tasks which are not
available until a particular date, to avoid the cycle of constantly
changing the start date.
Anyway, just an idea!
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 5:56 AM, MCA <mca....@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> recently I discovered PhraseExpress - an automating hotkey tool for
> windows, free for private usage.
> Meanwhile I find it really useful in combination with MyLifeOrganized to
> automate specific actions.
>
> An example that I use and see it as quite helpful:
> I have a lot of entries in my MLO database (~3000).
> Especially at the beginning of a month or a week I am facing a very long
> list of entries from which - I have to admit - 80% have to be postponed to
> later hours, other days or weeks.
> Doing that with the mouse is a quite time consuming thing as I have to
> pick a date from the calender or the context menu of the start date field.
>
> Via keyboard it gets better, I can press "ALT+S" to set the focus to the
> start date field and then enter something like Tue (for Tuesday), 5d (for
> "in 5 days") or 3w (for "in 3 weeks").
> Due to the numerous entries even that takes up some time.
>
> I was looking for a possibility to quickly postpone entries, e.g. to
> Thursday, Saturday or to a later start time, let's say in e.g. 5 hours.
> With PhraseExpress this is finally possible.
>
> I create a folder "MyLifeExtensions" in PhraseExpress, below that a
> folder "postponing to days" and in that folder a hotkey macro "shift MLO
> entry to Fr".
> That macro will receive the following text:
> {#ALT -chars s}Fr
> {#TAB -count 9}
> {#ENTER}
>
> What is simulated?
> 1. Alt+S (--> this sets the focus to the startdate field)
> 2. Fr (--> this text is entered in the startdate field)
> 3. The tab key will be pressed 9 times. This quickly jumps though all
> dialog boxes and the cursor/focus will be in the tasklist again in the end
> so that I can continue without the need to take the mouse. The number of
> tabs depends on the number of dialog boxes and menu items that are
> displayed with your MLO.
> 4. The EnterKey is optional, I found out that I sometimes needed this
> extra key press.
>
> The whole macro is bound the the hotkey Alt+5 as Friday is the fifth day
> of the week. I have similar hotkeys for all days from Mo to Su (Alt+Numpad1
> to Alt+ Numpad 7).
> The macro is limitied to the MLO application only so it won't be activated
> in other applications than the mlo.exe.
>
>
> Now I can quickly shift entries from my list to other days just by
> selecting the entry and press Alt+ Numpad 1, Alt+ Numpad 5, Alt+ Numpad 3
> and so on...depending to which day I want the entry shift to.
>
> The same can be used for hours. It works similar just instead of "{#ALT
> -chars s}Fr" I use "{#ALT -chars s}7h" and use the hotkey with Ctrl instead
> of Alt.
>
>
> Using these hotkeys I can quickly set my entries to the right days and can
> do my daily review much faster.
>
>
> Other macros are also possible. Phraseexpress can be used for a lot of
> actions.
>
> I am not affiliated with Phraseexpress or their developers, don't receive
> money from them... I just wanted to share this with you, maybe helpful to
> the one or the other.
>
>
> Greetings
>
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