Re: [MLO] What is the quickest way to join two rows together?

[Dwight Arthur]

Hi. John. It sounds as though that would work for you.  It would not work 
for me because it would take too much effort to get and keep all the tasks 
set to be projects that need it.



On December 13, 2016 1:43:20 PM "John . Smith"  wrote:


Hi Dwight

What do you think of my proposal to keep using the Next Actions, and to
make sure that all standalone tasks are given the Alt/J treatment (painful
but possible)?

That way any tasks within a genuine project that I wanted to do "Forced
Next" could be made into Projects too...

J




On Tuesday, December 13, 2016 at 5:53:51 PM UTC, John . Smith wrote:


PS
Dwight I have found a major flaw in your proposal, for using Next Actions
which is that what you suggest only works in the *root* directory.
Whereas I am using a different folder for each of my Areas of Life. The
problem is that the Next Actions view in MLO hides all stand-alone tasks.
And MLO fails to treat tasks that are within a Folder as if they were in
the root directory.

The only workaround I can find is to manually make all my standalone task
become "Projects"! (This is slightly painful to remember to hit Alt/J for
every standalone task...).

Obviously if you make everything in sight into a Project, then the Next
Action view simply would simply shows everything in sight!  So in order to
just have only the *genuine* next actions within each project become
visible in the Next Actions view, I would need to make sure that all
actions within a project are NOT be flagged-up as being also Projects.

This would be possible. Although given that I like to move stuff rather
fluidly between projects and actions this wouldn't be ideal.

J


On the up-side I guess I could manually flag any actions up as being
"Forced Next" actions (see my previous comment) simply by making any action
I wanted to see on the the Next Actions list become a project (e.g. using
Alt/J)







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Re: [MLO] What is the quickest way to join two rows together?

[John . Smith]

Hi Dwight

What do you think of my proposal to keep using the Next Actions, and to 
make sure that all standalone tasks are given the Alt/J treatment (painful 
but possible)?

That way any tasks within a genuine project that I wanted to do "Forced 
Next" could be made into Projects too...

J




On Tuesday, December 13, 2016 at 5:53:51 PM UTC, John . Smith wrote:
>
> PS
> Dwight I have found a major flaw in your proposal, for using Next Actions 
> which is that what you suggest only works in the *root* directory. 
> Whereas I am using a different folder for each of my Areas of Life. The 
> problem is that the Next Actions view in MLO hides all stand-alone tasks. 
> And MLO fails to treat tasks that are within a Folder as if they were in 
> the root directory. 
>
> The only workaround I can find is to manually make all my standalone task 
> become "Projects"! (This is slightly painful to remember to hit Alt/J for 
> every standalone task...).  
>
> Obviously if you make everything in sight into a Project, then the Next 
> Action view simply would simply shows everything in sight!  So in order to 
> just have only the *genuine* next actions within each project become 
> visible in the Next Actions view, I would need to make sure that all 
> actions within a project are NOT be flagged-up as being also Projects.
>
> This would be possible. Although given that I like to move stuff rather 
> fluidly between projects and actions this wouldn't be ideal.
>
> J
>
>
> On the up-side I guess I could manually flag any actions up as being 
> "Forced Next" actions (see my previous comment) simply by making any action 
> I wanted to see on the the Next Actions list become a project (e.g. using 
> Alt/J)
>
>>
>>>

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Re: [MLO] What is the quickest way to join two rows together?

[John . Smith]

Hi Dwight
[message crossing, btw!]

> You previously stated that you found folders to be a waste of time 
To be fair I have now tried so many different configurations of everything 
insight I am losing count!

I'm probably being a bit thick about this but in your example...

Project 
 > Task 1 
 > Folder 1 
 > > Task 2 
 > > Task 3 
 > Task 4 
 > Folder 2 
 > > Task 5 
 > > Task 6 
 > Task 7 

If I make the Project which contains all 7 tasks set to "Complete subtasks 
in order", the only task that is now visible is Task 1.

Also what impact does creating those Folders actually have?

In general "Complete subtasks in order" only seems to work for one layer of 
subtasks. i.e. If Task 1 any children or grandchildren e.g.

> Task 1 
>  > Task 1.1
>  >  >  Task 1.1.1
>  >  >  Task 1.1.2
>  >  >  Task 1.1.3
>  >  Task 1.2
>  >  Task 1.3

Then all of the above would be visible, yes?




 






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Re: [MLO] What is the quickest way to join two rows together?

[Dwight]

True. You previously stated that you found folders to be a waste of time 
so I was assuming that you would have lots of standalone tasks at the 
root. If that no longer applies, I would suggest forgetting about next 
actions, and setting all of the projects or folders where you want to 
see next actions as "complete tasks in order"


-Dwight

On 12/13/2016 12:53 PM, John . Smith wrote:

PS
Dwight I have found a major flaw in your proposal, for using Next
Actions which is that what you suggest only works in the /root/
directory. Whereas I am using a different folder for each of my Areas of
Life. The problem is that the Next Actions view in MLO hides all
stand-alone tasks. And MLO fails to treat tasks that are within a Folder
as if they were in the root directory.

The only workaround I can find is to manually make all my standalone
task become "Projects"! (This is slightly painful to remember to hit
Alt/J for every standalone task...).

Obviously if you make everything in sight into a Project, then the Next
Action view simply would simply shows everything in sight!  So in order
to just have only the /genuine/ next actions within each project become
visible in the Next Actions view, I would need to make sure that all
actions within a project are NOT be flagged-up as being also Projects.

This would be possible. Although given that I like to move stuff rather
fluidly between projects and actions this wouldn't be ideal.

J


On the up-side I guess I could manually flag any actions up as being
"Forced Next" actions (see my previous comment) simply by making any
action I wanted to see on the the Next Actions list become a project
(e.g. using Alt/J)





On Tuesday, December 13, 2016 at 12:04:28 PM UTC, John . Smith wrote:

Hi Dwight

Wow - I had no idea that all that stuff with the Todo List format,
showing the Task Path was even possible! I learned various things
there - thank you!

Yes that looks useful. But I shall need to digest this properly when
I have more time and revert...


In the meantime I have two other related problems:

A) How can I get to show not just ONE next action within a major
project but THREE?
To explain: I find that quite often the actions within a project are
neither to be executed strictly "in series" nor completely in
parallel.   i.e. If I have a large number of actions within a
project I don't want it to overwhelm my view by showing them all,
nor to I want to just show one project because the next 2 or 3 can
often be done simultaneously (i.e. "in parallel").

I am have been assuming that "Next THREE Actions" is probably
impossible in MLO but if anyone out there knows, Dwight would know!


B) Forced Next
I know that this is an 'old chestnut' that has been previously
discussed but I cant remember the conclusion!
But in GTDNext there is an extremely useful featured which they call
"Forced Next" which allows the user to manually put additional tasks
onto the Next (one) Actions view.  I have never quite managed to
create some such thing in MLO. The obvious thing to try is to create
a flag called say "ForcedNext", but I don't think there was any way
to create a view that shows NextActions AND Flag="ForcedNext".

Wait, it's coming back to me, now - or was that the intractable
problem?!


General point:
Having recently been experimented with competing products I keep
coming back to the same feeling. MLO really is amazing in so many
ways. BUT personally I keep finding that it's like "the monkey's
claw", all the really important things that I want a task management
system to do aren't just difficult, after hours of trying
complicated workaround, it turns out that they all have terrible
unwanted side effects that are worse than the original problem.  To
me it is clear that MLO has long ago lost the battle of overwhelming
the new users with too many features, but unfortunately they haven't
quite finished job of making it technically possible to do all the
really important things.

J

Dwight wrote:

Hi, John. First, let me say that I am surprised to find you
clicking
triangles, I thought that you were keyboard-only. You must have
found a
better mount? :-)

I know that there are outliner is which "join rows" is a small
deal -
MLO's not one. The only way I know to do what you are asking
would be
with cut & paste which is cumbersome and I'm sure wholely
unacceptable.

But let's go over why Next Actions isn't working for you. I made
a new
profile and put in a half dozen or so tasks at the root and then
added a
folder named HOUSE ORGANISED with the four child tasks you
specified. I
created two tabs: the first one showed the All Tasks view, the
second
showed Active Actions. The 

Re: [MLO] Need filter argument "has no time"

[Dwight]

Alexis: In MLO, "today with no time" is coded exactly the same as "today 
at midnight (00:00)". If you rewrite your problem statement using "today 
at midnight" it becomes easier to solve. If I am understanding you, you 
do want to see tasks with due date tomorrow all day (-2359), you do 
not want to see tasks due today after midnight (0001-2359) and you do 
want to see tasks today midnight and before. So your test would be 
(((dueDateTime onOrAfter Today+1 00:00) AND (dueDateTime Before 
Today+2)) OR (dueDateTime onOrBefore Today 00:00))


The places where I coded 00:00 can probably be omitted but I put it in 
to keep myself less confused.


It's possible that you did not want to exclude tasks that were due today 
at a time that has already passed, in which case you would substitute 
Now for the last Today.(((dueDateTime onOrAfter Today+1 00:00) AND 
(dueDateTime Before Today+2)) OR (dueDateTime onOrBefore Now))


Or if you wanted to include tasks due earlier today but only if they 
were overdue by 3 hours or more you could use Now-0.125 because three 
hours is 1/8 of a day and 1/8 = 0.125.

-Dwight

On 12/13/2016 11:39 AM, Alexis wrote:

I would like to see tasks (using advanced filter) which are due on and
before tomorrow (Today +1) but i don´t want to see tasks which are due
today in 2 hours. (has a time). It would be easy if there would be the
argument (has no time). But i can´t find it and can´t think of any
workaround. Any ideas?

Thank You
Alexis

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Re: [MLO] What is the quickest way to join two rows together?

[John . Smith]

PS
Dwight I have found a major flaw in your proposal, for using Next Actions 
which is that what you suggest only works in the *root* directory. Whereas 
I am using a different folder for each of my Areas of Life. The problem is 
that the Next Actions view in MLO hides all stand-alone tasks. And MLO 
fails to treat tasks that are within a Folder as if they were in the root 
directory. 

The only workaround I can find is to manually make all my standalone task 
become "Projects"! (This is slightly painful to remember to hit Alt/J for 
every standalone task...).  

Obviously if you make everything in sight into a Project, then the Next 
Action view simply would simply shows everything in sight!  So in order to 
just have only the *genuine* next actions within each project become 
visible in the Next Actions view, I would need to make sure that all 
actions within a project are NOT be flagged-up as being also Projects.

This would be possible. Although given that I like to move stuff rather 
fluidly between projects and actions this wouldn't be ideal.

J


On the up-side I guess I could manually flag any actions up as being 
"Forced Next" actions (see my previous comment) simply by making any action 
I wanted to see on the the Next Actions list become a project (e.g. using 
Alt/J)





On Tuesday, December 13, 2016 at 12:04:28 PM UTC, John . Smith wrote:
>
> Hi Dwight
>
> Wow - I had no idea that all that stuff with the Todo List format, showing 
> the Task Path was even possible! I learned various things there - thank you!
>
> Yes that looks useful. But I shall need to digest this properly when I 
> have more time and revert... 
>
>
> In the meantime I have two other related problems:
>
> A) How can I get to show not just ONE next action within a major project 
> but THREE?
> To explain: I find that quite often the actions within a project are 
> neither to be executed strictly "in series" nor completely in parallel.   
> i.e. If I have a large number of actions within a project I don't want it 
> to overwhelm my view by showing them all, nor to I want to just show one 
> project because the next 2 or 3 can often be done simultaneously (i.e. "in 
> parallel").
>
> I am have been assuming that "Next THREE Actions" is probably impossible 
> in MLO but if anyone out there knows, Dwight would know!
>
>
> B) Forced Next
> I know that this is an 'old chestnut' that has been previously discussed 
> but I cant remember the conclusion! 
> But in GTDNext there is an extremely useful featured which they call 
> "Forced Next" which allows the user to manually put additional tasks onto 
> the Next (one) Actions view.  I have never quite managed to create some 
> such thing in MLO. The obvious thing to try is to create a flag called say 
> "ForcedNext", but I don't think there was any way to create a view that 
> shows NextActions AND Flag="ForcedNext". 
>
> Wait, it's coming back to me, now - or was that the intractable problem?! 
>
>  
> General point: 
> Having recently been experimented with competing products I keep coming 
> back to the same feeling. MLO really is amazing in so many ways. BUT 
> personally I keep finding that it's like "the monkey's claw", all the 
> really important things that I want a task management system to do aren't 
> just difficult, after hours of trying complicated workaround, it turns out 
> that they all have terrible unwanted side effects that are worse than the 
> original problem.  To me it is clear that MLO has long ago lost the battle 
> of overwhelming the new users with too many features, but unfortunately 
> they haven't quite finished job of making it technically possible to do all 
> the really important things.
>
> J
>
> Dwight wrote:
>
>> Hi, John. First, let me say that I am surprised to find you clicking 
>> triangles, I thought that you were keyboard-only. You must have found a 
>> better mount? :-) 
>>
>> I know that there are outliner is which "join rows" is a small deal - 
>> MLO's not one. The only way I know to do what you are asking would be 
>> with cut & paste which is cumbersome and I'm sure wholely unacceptable. 
>>
>> But let's go over why Next Actions isn't working for you. I made a new 
>> profile and put in a half dozen or so tasks at the root and then added a 
>> folder named HOUSE ORGANISED with the four child tasks you specified. I 
>> created two tabs: the first one showed the All Tasks view, the second 
>> showed Active Actions. The second tab was set to synch selection with 
>> the first tab, and I had the view specifications showing in the left 
>> hand panel. I changed the first filter from ShowActions:Active to 
>> ShowActions:NextAction and saved the updated view as Next Actions. I 
>> created a third tab and loaded the Active Actions view. In Options:to-do 
>> list format I turned on the top Encode checkbox, turned off encode for 
>> projects, turned on prefix encoding for task path with a path depth of 
>> one, name limit of 20 characters, no 

Re: [MLO] What is the quickest way to join two rows together?

[Dwight]

John: when you find that your question is no longer relevant to the 
title of the thread you should start a new thread please. But to avoit 
being a PITB I will answer these two new questions here.


I do not know any way to see "the action after the next action" or "the 
action after that". But if you have clumps of tasks that can be pursued 
simultaneously and others that have to be sequential I know how to do 
that. Imagine a project with seven tasks, where numbers 2 and 3 can run 
in parallel and also numbers 5 and 6 can run in parallel. Dont use "next 
actions". Look at an "active actions" view. Set "complete tasks in 
order" for the project, then set it up like this:

Project
> Task 1
> Folder 1
> > Task 2
> > Task 3
> Task 4
> Folder 2
> > Task 5
> > Task 6
> Task 7

To remind you of the outcome of your prior discussions on forced next 
actions, it would be easy to construct an advanced filter that would 
show all tasks where

((NextAction = true) OR (Flag = ForcedNext))
except for one thing; NextAction is not defined as an advanced filter 
criterion. You submitted a proposal for this to be implemented, I 
supported it, you did not do much cheer leading to try to raise support 
from the community, there was not a huge outcry for this feature and so 
far no implementation plans have been revealed.


-Dwight

On 12/13/2016 7:04 AM, John . Smith wrote:

Hi Dwight

Wow - I had no idea that all that stuff with the Todo List format,
showing the Task Path was even possible! I learned various things there
- thank you!

Yes that looks useful. But I shall need to digest this properly when I
have more time and revert...


In the meantime I have two other related problems:

A) How can I get to show not just ONE next action within a major project
but THREE?
To explain: I find that quite often the actions within a project are
neither to be executed strictly "in series" nor completely in parallel.
  i.e. If I have a large number of actions within a project I don't want
it to overwhelm my view by showing them all, nor to I want to just show
one project because the next 2 or 3 can often be done simultaneously
(i.e. "in parallel").

I am have been assuming that "Next THREE Actions" is probably impossible
in MLO but if anyone out there knows, Dwight would know!


B) Forced Next
I know that this is an 'old chestnut' that has been previously discussed
but I cant remember the conclusion!
But in GTDNext there is an extremely useful featured which they call
"Forced Next" which allows the user to manually put additional tasks
onto the Next (one) Actions view.  I have never quite managed to create
some such thing in MLO. The obvious thing to try is to create a flag
called say "ForcedNext", but I don't think there was any way to create a
view that shows NextActions AND Flag="ForcedNext".

Wait, it's coming back to me, now - or was that the intractable problem?!


General point:
Having recently been experimented with competing products I keep coming
back to the same feeling. MLO really is amazing in so many ways. BUT
personally I keep finding that it's like "the monkey's claw", all the
really important things that I want a task management system to do
aren't just difficult, after hours of trying complicated workaround, it
turns out that they all have terrible unwanted side effects that are
worse than the original problem.  To me it is clear that MLO has long
ago lost the battle of overwhelming the new users with too many
features, but unfortunately they haven't quite finished job of making it
technically possible to do all the really important things.

J

Dwight wrote:

Hi, John. First, let me say that I am surprised to find you clicking
triangles, I thought that you were keyboard-only. You must have found a
better mount? :-)

I know that there are outliner is which "join rows" is a small deal -
MLO's not one. The only way I know to do what you are asking would be
with cut & paste which is cumbersome and I'm sure wholely unacceptable.

But let's go over why Next Actions isn't working for you. I made a new
profile and put in a half dozen or so tasks at the root and then
added a
folder named HOUSE ORGANISED with the four child tasks you specified. I
created two tabs: the first one showed the All Tasks view, the second
showed Active Actions. The second tab was set to synch selection with
the first tab, and I had the view specifications showing in the left
hand panel. I changed the first filter from ShowActions:Active to
ShowActions:NextAction and saved the updated view as Next Actions. I
created a third tab and loaded the Active Actions view. In
Options:to-do
list format I turned on the top Encode checkbox, turned off encode for
projects, turned on prefix encoding for task path with a path depth of
one, name limit of 20 characters, no start or separator string and enc
string of " - " (blank/dash/blank).

The Next Actions view shows seven 

[MLO] Need filter argument "has no time"

[Alexis]

I would like to see tasks (using advanced filter) which are due on and 
before tomorrow (Today +1) but i don´t want to see tasks which are due 
today in 2 hours. (has a time). It would be easy if there would be the 
argument (has no time). But i can´t find it and can´t think of any 
workaround. Any ideas?

Thank You
Alexis

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Re: [MLO] What is the quickest way to join two rows together?

[John . Smith]

Hi Dwight

Wow - I had no idea that all that stuff with the Todo List format, showing 
the Task Path was even possible! I learned various things there - thank you!

Yes that looks useful. But I shall need to digest this properly when I have 
more time and revert... 


In the meantime I have two other related problems:

A) How can I get to show not just ONE next action within a major project 
but THREE?
To explain: I find that quite often the actions within a project are 
neither to be executed strictly "in series" nor completely in parallel.   
i.e. If I have a large number of actions within a project I don't want it 
to overwhelm my view by showing them all, nor to I want to just show one 
project because the next 2 or 3 can often be done simultaneously (i.e. "in 
parallel").

I am have been assuming that "Next THREE Actions" is probably impossible in 
MLO but if anyone out there knows, Dwight would know!


B) Forced Next
I know that this is an 'old chestnut' that has been previously discussed 
but I cant remember the conclusion! 
But in GTDNext there is an extremely useful featured which they call 
"Forced Next" which allows the user to manually put additional tasks onto 
the Next (one) Actions view.  I have never quite managed to create some 
such thing in MLO. The obvious thing to try is to create a flag called say 
"ForcedNext", but I don't think there was any way to create a view that 
shows NextActions AND Flag="ForcedNext". 

Wait, it's coming back to me, now - or was that the intractable problem?! 

 
General point: 
Having recently been experimented with competing products I keep coming 
back to the same feeling. MLO really is amazing in so many ways. BUT 
personally I keep finding that it's like "the monkey's claw", all the 
really important things that I want a task management system to do aren't 
just difficult, after hours of trying complicated workaround, it turns out 
that they all have terrible unwanted side effects that are worse than the 
original problem.  To me it is clear that MLO has long ago lost the battle 
of overwhelming the new users with too many features, but unfortunately 
they haven't quite finished job of making it technically possible to do all 
the really important things.

J

Dwight wrote:

> Hi, John. First, let me say that I am surprised to find you clicking 
> triangles, I thought that you were keyboard-only. You must have found a 
> better mount? :-) 
>
> I know that there are outliner is which "join rows" is a small deal - 
> MLO's not one. The only way I know to do what you are asking would be 
> with cut & paste which is cumbersome and I'm sure wholely unacceptable. 
>
> But let's go over why Next Actions isn't working for you. I made a new 
> profile and put in a half dozen or so tasks at the root and then added a 
> folder named HOUSE ORGANISED with the four child tasks you specified. I 
> created two tabs: the first one showed the All Tasks view, the second 
> showed Active Actions. The second tab was set to synch selection with 
> the first tab, and I had the view specifications showing in the left 
> hand panel. I changed the first filter from ShowActions:Active to 
> ShowActions:NextAction and saved the updated view as Next Actions. I 
> created a third tab and loaded the Active Actions view. In Options:to-do 
> list format I turned on the top Encode checkbox, turned off encode for 
> projects, turned on prefix encoding for task path with a path depth of 
> one, name limit of 20 characters, no start or separator string and enc 
> string of " - " (blank/dash/blank). 
>
> The Next Actions view shows seven tasks, root tasks one through six, and 
> one that showed 
> HOUSE ORGANISED - Clear Bedroom 
>
> I marked the House task completed and it changed to 
> HOUSE ORGANISED - Clear TV Room 
> the six root tasks were undisturbed 
>
> In order to view the other tasks involved in house organization, I have 
> several choices 
>
> 1. click on the home tab. To go back, click on the nextactions tab. one 
> click each way. drawback: if you have a lot of concurrent projects like 
> this they will all be expended at once. But the one you are working on 
> will be the selected task so it should not be challenging to find. 
>
> 2. Doubleclick on the current task. Everything past the initial click is 
> identical to option 1 
>
> 3. Click on the ActiveActions tab. After the initial click it's the same 
> as #1. Difference is that  #1 gave a hierarchical view which allows you 
> to see the parents and the completed tasks, also, the view in #1 may 
> have been sorted which may or may not help. 
>
> 4. Stay in the current tab. Change the first filter to 
> ShowActions:Active. When you are done, change it back. Advantage, only 
> uses a single workspace, if that matters to you. Drawback: two clicks to 
> change, And a risk that you are going to leave this expanded without 
> resetting it and get a surprise the next time you use the view and it 
> doesn't do what it is supposed 

Re: [MLO] Re: Bug in MLO for Windows - Control/X ==> crash

[John . Smith]

Update: Not so fast. There is still a problem...

J

On Monday, December 12, 2016 at 4:55:28 PM UTC, John . Smith wrote:
>
> Yes, Andrey's Beta version fixes the problem:^)
>
> Cheers
>
> J
>
> On Wednesday, December 7, 2016 at 7:51:23 PM UTC, Laurence Glazier wrote:
>>
>> I started a thread in August about it https://goo.gl/YtM262
>>
>> Andrey has looked into it. As an interim measure he made a build for me 
>> in which the bug doesn't happen. I am not sure what happens when the 
>> application gets updated. I may have to live with the bug again or stay 
>> with the build I have.
>>
>> So John, perhaps contact Andrey about this.
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Laurence
>>
>

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[MLO] Re: Marking as "Won't Do"

[c.k. lester]

Flags?! Contexts! Tags?! Do we really need all that? :D

Thanks, Dwight, for the idea! I'll look into it as well. :-)


On Monday, December 12, 2016 at 8:48:56 PM UTC-6, Dwight wrote:
>
> Like Elizabeth, I mark rejected items done, indicating that no further 
> effort is needed for this item. I have a "Rejected" flag that use for the 
> same purpose as Elizabeth's "!Cancelled" context
>
> On Monday, December 12, 2016 at 5:22:48 PM UTC-5, Elizabeth Lindsay wrote:
>>
>> I created a context called "!Cancelled", add that context, then click the 
>> checkbox to mark it as done.  Then if I'm reviewing my older stuff (i.e. 
>> closed items), I can tell it wasn't done versus was done.
>>
>> On Monday, December 12, 2016 at 10:06:21 AM UTC-6, c.k. lester wrote:
>>>
>>> How do you mark a task at "Won't Be Done" or similar? This is primarily 
>>> used in software development management, where an assigned enhancement or 
>>> bug fix or something is on the task list, but, ultimately, the programmer 
>>> decides it won't be done for one reason or another. Instead of marking is 
>>> as "Done," there is a "Won't Do" or "Rejected" status. Is that available 
>>> for MLO?
>>>
>>>

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[MLO] Re: Marking as "Won't Do"

[c.k. lester]

Thanks for the idea, Elizabeth! What's the difference between having a '@' 
or a '!' in front of the context? Can I put anything there?


On Monday, December 12, 2016 at 4:22:48 PM UTC-6, Elizabeth Lindsay wrote:
>
> I created a context called "!Cancelled", add that context, then click the 
> checkbox to mark it as done.  Then if I'm reviewing my older stuff (i.e. 
> closed items), I can tell it wasn't done versus was done.
>
> On Monday, December 12, 2016 at 10:06:21 AM UTC-6, c.k. lester wrote:
>>
>> How do you mark a task at "Won't Be Done" or similar? This is primarily 
>> used in software development management, where an assigned enhancement or 
>> bug fix or something is on the task list, but, ultimately, the programmer 
>> decides it won't be done for one reason or another. Instead of marking is 
>> as "Done," there is a "Won't Do" or "Rejected" status. Is that available 
>> for MLO?
>>
>>

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