Hi, Lewie. I know three ways to change the parent of a task that already exists. 1. drag and drop. Drop the task onto the folder that will be its new parent. I assume that this is self-explanatory. 2. right click the task and select "Move to..." from the context menu. This brings up a popup showing all of the tasks in the current view, so to be safe you should probably use this command from an All-Tasks view. In ther popup, select the item you want to be the new parent and click OK. 3. click on the task name in any to-do list and add a -tofld command at the end of the task name. -tofld commands are documented in the user guide in the section on parsing for the rapid task entry dialog. For an example if you have a task "balance checkbook" in your inbox and you want it in the folder named Work you would edit the task name to say "balance checkbook -tofldWork" and please note no space before "Work". with the task name still highlighted for entry/edit, position the cursor at the end of the task name and hit alt/Enter
A couple of other observations: -adding due dates is entirely unrelated to organizing tasks into folders. You can do either, both or neither. If you really like managing your tasks by due date then it's an important thing to do. For a look at a really good way of managing tasks that de-emphasizes due dates, have a look at the book "Getting Things Done" by David Allen - MLO is very flexible in that it will provide you with several options for handling a situation and let you pick the one that works best for you. So for example, folders and contexts have overlapping uses. I use folders to break up my thousand plus tasks into smaller pools (like Home, Work, Errands) for easier searching, while I use contexts for things I need to work on the task (@computer, @phone, @car) -Dwight -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/5578ae83-c40c-4be4-983a-736458cfc34d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
