Riann, First, with regard to moving things out of the inbox. You can right-click (or CTRL-M) to move a task that works quite well. You can also open the inbox in a new tab and drag into MLO where you like (press F3 to open the tab in new window). If you do either of these with just the task in the inbox then there is no outline structure in the inbox at all. Keep it flat and empty and rely on your other tabs for organising.
I assume you like to keep your MLO box empty for the same reason you keep your email inbox and any other inboxes you have empty. I do the same and I have had similar concerns about the processing time. I think that Stephen and Dwight (although they seem not to understand your need for emptiness) have hit on a couple of things that will help us both to achieve what we want in the MLO-way: I like Dwight's idea of Capture, Setup and Complete fits in quite well with GTD's Capture, Defer, Do. I particularly like the idea of No Context = Not Setup. Along with Stephen's point about inheriting contexts from folders I can see a process that would work. I don't use contexts as much as I should because I never saw how it would fit in with GTD and seemed to be an unnecessary step and I add most tasks directly to the folders they belong to. However, this thread has made me think again and this is how I propose to use it and it should be helpful for you. - Create your structure outside of the inbox with inherited contexts - Keep your inbox as an unstructured flat list of new todos - Set up these todos as and when you have time. You can keep them there until you have all the info you want to capture (dependencies, time, effort, importance, starts etc) - The last thing you do is add context unless it will be moved to a place where it will get these automatically - Move it Your inbox will then only contain new todos or those that have not been completely setup yet. In true GTD style, if you can't complete the setup process for a particular task then you would still move the task out of the inbox and create a new task that says: Get x info from y and update task z. I hope that helps but I understand that I could be mis-understanding what you need. Steve On Monday, 2 November 2015 08:50:17 UTC, Riaan Eloff wrote: > > Folks, I still have a gripe with the Inbox functionality for sure! > > It's great for getting stuff IN, but it is ridiculous for processing. It > is one massive huge schlep to get stuff OUT of the inbox, and stop the > clutter. I do not use folders. I simply use contexts. Projects with > sub-tasks/sub-projects are a simple way to group them too. > > So, two major issues I experience: After entering tasks into inbox (fast > entry during the day as they pop into my head), when it comes to > processing...I cannot simply assign/activate them. Nope, after assiging to > a context, creating a start/due date etc etc etc, I now have to go to the > outline view, and physically move each and every task OUT of Inbox. This > is a HUGE hassle! My feeling is that there should be a simple "activate" > checkbox, or even simpler: once a date/context or any change other than > the simple text of the task has changed, it should AUTOMATICALLY move OUT > of Inbox, as processing has taken place. > > Issue 2 > So...I have (in the bloody inbox), now made some tasks projects, made them > subtasks, have a big fat tree of tasks with dependencies etc. I now go to > the outline view, and lo-and-behold: I cannot MOVE them OUT of inbox > unless I use ALT+SHIFT+leftarrowkey!!!! This destroys the entire tree! It > flattens the tree. How ridiculous!? > > So, if anyone could advise where I am going wrong, please do. This is > extremely frustrating! > > On Saturday, 28 January 2012 04:02:21 UTC+2, Ram Rachum wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I want to have a keyboard shortcut for putting the currently-selected >> task in a specific folder. >> >> For example, every time I press Ctrl-Alt-W I want MLO to put the selected >> task in my Work folder. >> >> Can that be accomplished with MLO? >> >> >> Thanks, >> Ram. >> > -- 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/2f196055-db15-4d48-b27a-eea3ff1e2daa%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
