Hi John, Seeing as you replied to me, apparently you do not think that. I did read what you wrote, and have read what you’ve written for going on 4 or more years now. The issue for anyone following along seems to be that we do understand your position, but we’re not sure you do. This does not appear to be a technical issue, nor have I ever seen you make use of any technical facts.
Getting back to your issues: “Status” sounds like another McGuffin. You’ve gone from being unable to do “GTD Lists” to “Unable to do GTD Efficiently” to trying to do something that’s adamantly against GTD. Which is fine, I’m not concerned with GTD or whatever it is you think you’re referencing with that at this point, but your issues keep skirting around many things only held together by you using the program, and emotional frustration. That’s the only through-line to them. Everything else about them changes but that. You seem to have tried everything else for 4 or more years, likely more outside of MLO, so I suggest you reflectively consider whether that is the problem. If you mean ‘status’ in the sense that something will either appear on a todo list as something you can actively ‘do’, MLO already handles that across seemingly all of the possible parameters you could have for that. If you don’t want to see or do something until a certain date, you can use start dates and due dates to have it appear in todo views beginning only on that date. If you only want it to appear on some lists and not others, you can use the contexts feature. Within contexts, you can even set it only to appear during certain times of day and days of the week, or not at all, even nesting it within other contexts. If you’d only like it to appear when one or more things have already been checked off, you can use dependencies. If you only want it to appear when things further up the hierarchy preceding it are done in sequential fashion, you can do that too, and it’ll appear in real time once those are done. If you’d like to control that on a task by task basis, you can do that too by clicking the button to not have it be in a todo view, which can be inherited or not based on how you set it up. If you just want to mark something as “in progress,” “focus on this,” or similar things, you can use any of the above features, and/or star or flag something with a single press. You can also mix and match these things and more to have the status change in complex ways, like only after X date when Y things have been completed and Z tasks are done. If you mean ‘status’ as a special designation you yourself have created for your tasks, that’s what contexts are for. You use contexts in GTD and otherwise to segment your lists however you’d like. If this is what you mean by status, this is not a workaround, you just seem attached to calling some contexts “status” for reasons unknown. Context isn’t limited to physical locations or tools, it’s whatever you want it to be based on your decided needs. If you had a custom field you could call “status,” you’re still going to have to click something. With contexts, you’ll have to click something. And if you just mean you’d like something in a todo view or not, there’s already a button there you can click for that, alongside many others that also require you to click them. I hope you have a nice long weekend John, and it’s not raining where you’re at. Unless you like the rain, in which case you’re welcome to take our rain as well. Best, S -- 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/c7705874-8ac2-486e-9d0b-b9b2d5fd4e4c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
