I am strongly in favour of doing something but I am afraid I am not keen on this idea of having some sort of context hierarchy. (if I have understood the proposition correctly - I have limited time to read all the postings). I would argue strongly in favour of my Context List based approach - see here for details: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mylifeorganized/tLufHVry73g/vny44wRU2B4J or something similar where you can defined an ordered set of mutually exclusive contexts which then form the grouping. When you assign something to one of these contexts, it automatically removes any other contexts in the group. This gives you a 'quasi-list' capability which could be further enhanced by laying an optional Trello like interface on top so that you can drag and drop tasks between diferent named lists. I have a very powerful argument in favour of this approach - it is the word: KANBAN. This is very much 'flavour of the year' (or years) and would allow MLO to be targeted at the KANBAN community - which has a major and growing following. "The only product that allows you do GtD and Kanban at the same time" "The only product that allows you to build outlines and do KANBAN at the same time" - the possibilities are endless. I rest my case, m'Lud (see here for explanation of this phrase: http://www.englishforums.com/English/WhatsIRestMyCaseSMeaning/vkkrr/post.htm)
Richard On Tuesday, 22 October 2013 15:33:23 UTC+1, Lisa S wrote: > I am strongly in favor of the features discussed here, and I think your > proposal covers most of it. > > Two comments: > ONE:UI for determining sort: It seems odd to have two completely different > UIs for manage tasks and manage flags. The manage flags dialog doesn't > allow clicking on the Flag name (perhaps this is only for me? Since I've > rearranged my flags manually). I think it would be confusing to click on a > "sort by" column and change a static behavior throughout MLO. I'm used to > seeing "click on column" to only effect the display, never behavior / > static list position, but I'm not a UI gal currently :) I don't remember > having any problems understanding this interface, and I think it could be > copied for Contexts. Then, dragging tasks around would set their order. > SUGGESTION: Merge the sort functionality from "Manage Flags" look and > feel, into Manage Contexts. There could be a new menu in the Manage > Contexts box, similar to "Sort Tasks" in the Outline, that confirms > re-ordering the sort. Menu: "Sort Contacts ....<options>" --> results: "Are > you sure you want to reorder your Contexts alphabetically? This will reset > your current sort order." > > TWO:Selecting Contexts on tasks: (Eventually) To reduce confusion about > contexts throughout MLO, should Context sort order be a static property on > the Context, as it is (I think) for flags? Ie, used in the Context > selection popup, etc when you want to change the context for a task?. > (Though then, people are going to be upset that it is not on mobile > platforms...) > > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Dwight Arthur > <m...@grantsmiths.org<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> Here's a recap of the discussions in this thread. If anyone has something >> to say or to add, or would have summarized it differently please say so no >> later than end of day Saturday October 26. In lieu of any further >> discussion items my next step would be to revise the existing JIRA item for >> consistency with this discussion. >> >> When an active task has more than one context defined the task will >> appear in multiple places of a view that's grouped by context. It will >> appear once under each context that has been defined to the task. This >> presents a distorted picture of the number of opened tasks and can >> interfere with the user's orderly management of tasks. Some but not all >> users wish for an ability to cause such tasks to appear only once. Each >> user has distinct preferences regarding which of the multiple contexts on a >> task should be chosen for display of the task. Therefore, there is a need >> for some method of defining a hierarchy of needs.This is combined with a >> separate request for a way to determine the order in which contexts appear >> in a group-by-context view to produce the following recommendation: >> >> 1. When defining group-by options for an MLO view, when grouping by >> context in addition to ascending and descending there should be a third >> option, user-defined. >> >> 2. The Manage Context popup has a triangle next to the word "context" in >> the header. when the triangle points up the contexts are sorted in >> ascending order. When the triangle is clicked it moves to point downward, >> and the contexts are re-sorted in descending order. There needs to be a >> third value for user defined. When this value is selected, users whould be >> able to re-sort the contexts, either by dragging context entries and >> dropping them into the desired order, or by using move-up and move-down >> buttons >> >> 3. When displaying a view in which entries are sorted by or grouped by >> context, the contexts should appear in the order in which they appear in >> the Manage Contexts popup. >> >> 4. When group by context is selected, provide another new option, "items >> with multiple contexts appear only once". If enabled, each item will appear >> no more than once; For an item with multiple contexts, the context which >> appears first(highest) in the view will be where the task appears. >> >> Please comment on this proposal. Lack of comment on your part will be >> taken to mean that you are not interested, so if you want to see this >> happen please add your comment here. >> -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 mylifeorganiz...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to mylifeo...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >> . >> 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/b7ce2fd3-7e8b-4e05-8be1-2063fe5a6c32%40googlegroups.com >> . >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > > > -- > Lisa > > ------------------------------ > Lisa Stroyan, mailto: ...@gmail.com <javascript:> > -- 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/74ea2f14-e0a7-436c-b4c2-a318e9abbd08%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
