Can someone advise on the best way to achieve using Mark Forster's methods in MLO? This usually involves moving a task to the bottom of a list. To achieve this I am using the Active Starred view. This is because manual orders in other views generally do not sync in the new Android version. (Are there plans to change this?)
I am operating more flexibly than Mark Forster described, creating Active Actions lists only of areas relevant at a particular time; the other areas get hidden. Generally I am seeing tasks from 2, 3 or 4 visible sub-branches. At root level I have a "Hidden" branch where I put the irrelevant sub-branches (e.g. "Home" while I am at work), and an "In Progress" visible branch where I have relevant and priority sub-branches. I move the main sub-branches back and forth between these primary ones during the day to generate relevant active task lists. While my approach technically works, there are overheads. Because only the Active Starred view syncs active actions with a manual order, I have to ensure every active action is starred, which means I can no longer use the star for the purpose intended. In the FVP system (Final Version Perfected) a chain of tasks is established. Without access to the stars, I tried showing the tasks in bold face (Ctrl-B) but that works only in Windows and does not transfer to the Android. The best I have found so far is to identify the chain of tasks visually by setting them to be projects (they then show in blue on the desktop, and are underlined in blue on the phone). But this is another overhead in terms of keystrokes, and undermines the use of projects as projects. A similar way it make the tasks overdue, but that has similar issues. Is there some way I should be using flags and contexts to achieve my approach with lower or no overhead? Is there some clever technique with views I should know (bearing in mind they need to have manual sort to that tasks can be moved to the bottom)? Should I consider abandoning the Windows version for serious work and instead treat it as a resource for occasional manipulation of tasks in bulk (with the multiple selection facility)? Thanks for reading to the end! Laurence -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/3f79d000-47d7-434c-82a1-f8cb2083b3d1%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
