Hi Steve, thanks for the reply. Yes, for sure, I believe we are brothers-in-arms here :-) Inbox Zero features high in my life, and I keep my email as clean as I can, and I would obviously like to do the same with my tasks in MLO. Dwight's suggestion above, about the "NEW" view, will be my current workaround, BUT unfortunately, because of my OCD, I will always feel there's something "wrong" with the world if there's stuff in that inbox. Does anyone know: could I rename the default MLO inbox and call it something else, so that I may call me "NEW" view "Inbox"? That would solve my OCD issue. ;-)
On Wednesday, 4 November 2015 11:41:10 UTC+2, Steve Gledhill wrote: > > 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/7417b8a5-69ab-4c22-a60f-384dc442b263%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
