RE: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Outline input to dynamically show existing contexts in a drop down window

2010-01-04 Thread Richard Collings
Or does this work for you: hit Alt C and you get a pop up list of Contexts in the Context field on the Properties pane. Start typing the name of your context and it progressively matches to what you are typing. Sounds to me like an exact match to your requirement.:-) You can also select m

RE: [MLO] Re: New minor release announcement

2009-12-31 Thread Richard Collings
That's a coincidence - I was planning to post a suggestion that Andrey should look at GetSatisfaction which is a similar sort of service (I think) which is used by another service that I subscribe to. I don't have a strong view either way but something that would allow us to see more easily whethe

RE: [MLO] Re: Any way to save displayed columns in ToDo views?

2009-12-28 Thread Richard Collings
Yes - I was also confused by this behaviour. As far as I can see, when you change the column settings for a ToDo view, they are saved automatically. For example, if you add a new column to a view, a star appears against the file name in the title bar but not against the view name - so you don

RE: [MLO] Re: Feature request - Quick Reference window

2009-12-24 Thread Richard Collings
Something like this would be quite good but I would definitely prefer to have it in the form of Google Toolbar Gadget as I have the toolbar permanently docked on the right hand side of my screen so the gadgets are permanently on view. The MLO gadget would fit nicely on there and would always be vi

[MLO] Feature request: entering a partial date should always default to the nearest matching date in the future

2009-12-24 Thread Richard Collings
Generally in MLO, when you enter a partial date/time, it always defaults to the nearest date/time that matches what you have entered in the future. Thus if I enter 10am and it is 11am, it defaults to 10am tomorrow. However, it doesn't do this if you enter day/month. For example, I have just en

[MLO] Feature request: for the Contexts for Task to indicate whether they are open or closed in some way

2009-12-20 Thread Richard Collings
The recent discussion where a new user is having problems getting his Contexts to work, does highlight something that I have struggled with when using MLO, namely it is not very clear whether the contexts for a tasks are open or closed. Unless I am missing something, you have to open the Context

RE: [MLO] Re: Are we supposed to create our own "closed" context to use the filter option "included closed?

2009-12-16 Thread Richard Collings
Another thought, are you Including Context's in other contexts?It is some time since I used this but if you are then I think that if you have assigned a child context to a task, then both the child and the parent context need to be closed in order for that task to not appear in the ToDo list.

RE: [MLO] Re: Closed Contexts

2009-12-16 Thread Richard Collings
What have you got the Action filter set to?If it isn't set to Active, try setting it to this. This functionality has been in MLO for the last few years and hasn't really changed and there have been no reports of any problems in this forum so it feels to me that it is something that you are doi

RE: [MLO] Re: Closed Contexts

2009-12-14 Thread Richard Collings
There is a 'bug' - when you use F8 to adjust the open/closed times for one or more contexts, and click close, there is no automatic change in the ToDo view. You have to hit F5 to refresh the view which will then take account of the adjusted open/closed times. Andrey has acknowledged this as

RE: [MLO] Re: Where did I spend my time

2009-12-09 Thread Richard Collings
e did I spend my time > > > Yes I also tried Pomodoro technique and like it. I will > analyze how implement it in MLO. You know I do not like hard > coded solutions and always trying to find a flexible way :-) > > Thanks for the suggestions! > > Andrey. > > On

RE: [MLO] Re: Where did I spend my time

2009-12-08 Thread Richard Collings
This is also very good news. Can I suggest that you have a look at the Pomodoro Technique (http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/) which has a simple mechanism for estimating the time each task is going to take and then recording how much time it does take. I have started using this and found it very

RE: [MLO] Re: Feature request: add drop down to Back button to show most recent tasks visited

2009-12-08 Thread Richard Collings
] Re: Feature request: add drop down to Back > button to show most recent tasks visited > > > > PS: the best solution to this problem would be to allow multiple > > windows to be opened on the same MLO file. > > Yes this is planned. > > Andrey. > > On O

RE: [MLO] MLO and Autofocus - good news!

2009-12-06 Thread Richard Collings
That's funny, I was thinking yesterday (again) how a facility like this would be very useful. However, I don't use Autofocus (not heard of it before- will check it out) and don't really understand what the third step is about.In my case, I set the Due Date of the task to a new date/time when

RE: [MLO] Feature request - Quick Reference window

2009-11-29 Thread Richard Collings
Or, as I suggested a while back (which would be my preference, I think), have a Google Toolbar app which provided a view of one's current ToDo list and which allows you tick stuff off. Although I get the feeling that Google Toolbar apps are seen to be a bit out of date now. If you want some

[MLO] Re: The Pomodoro Technique

2009-11-13 Thread Richard Collings
Yes - so I gather but as a peripheral member of that community, it had completely passed me by up until now. One of the things that I liked about it from an initial scan was the fact that he draws on the work of a range of other interesting people one of whom is Tom Gilb who, it could be argue

[MLO] Re: Manual ordering of the tasks on ToDo - implemented!

2009-11-11 Thread Richard Collings
This sounds good. Some questions: * is the manual sort order specific to a particular view (ie: if you create a manual order in one view and then switch to a different view and select manual order there, will those tasks sort in the same way?). I think I would prefer to have separate manual o

[MLO] Folders and recurring tasks: a suggestion

2009-10-25 Thread Richard Collings
There has been some debate about what to do about these and I think I have just seen the solution (for me at least) A folder has two characteristics: * it does not appear in the ToDo list; and * it does not have a tick box and therefore cannot be marked as completed - this was added

[MLO] Re: Feature Request: Dependency for Task Dates (based on completion of another task)

2009-10-24 Thread Richard Collings
+1 > -Original Message- > From: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com > [mailto:mylifeorgani...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of chuckdevee > Sent: 22 October 2009 8:55 a > To: MyLifeOrganized > Subject: [MLO] Feature Request: Dependency for Task Dates > (based on completion of another task) >

[MLO] Feature request: add drop down to Back button to show most recent tasks visited

2009-10-21 Thread Richard Collings
I quite often find that I have to navigate away from the area where I am focussed in order to add/update other tasks and then need to get back to this area again. The back button is quite useful in this respect but if it had a drop down that listed out the most recent tasks visited, this would

[MLO] Re: Feature Request: Lead Time from Inherited Parent Dates

2009-10-19 Thread Richard Collings
+1 Something like this would be good. Or as somebody else suggested a while back, if I remember correctly allowing a dependency to specify a lead or lag (although that might work slightly differently, I guess). > -Original Message- > From: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com > [mailto:

[MLO] Re: drag & drop between MLO files?

2009-10-19 Thread Richard Collings
The conclusion that I would highlight from this discussion (which I certainly feel) is that Move is now one of the weakest elements of MLO's generally good set of features. > -Original Message- > From: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com > [mailto:mylifeorgani...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf

[MLO] Re: Feature Suggestion: Option to let a Filter be shown as a tab (to the right of "outline")

2009-10-17 Thread Richard Collings
Any chance of you building something that would allow multiple windows to be opened on a single file at the same time?:-) This would have to be in my top 5 enhancements for MLO. (Tabs for views are good too but less important for me) > -Original Message- > From: mylifeorganized@goo

[MLO] Re: Missing action filter: like Active but includes future dated items?

2009-10-17 Thread Richard Collings
Ah - I had forgotten that. That would deal with the second of my points. Thanks Interestingly the Help is silent on Task Dependencies for both the Active and Available filters. I don't use these very much but I presume they are also considered in determining what appears in the Active filter

[MLO] Re: Feature Suggestion: clearer terminology & menu order for Action Filters: Next Action, Available, Active

2009-10-16 Thread Richard Collings
+1 +1 to 'All actions except completed' > -Original Message- > From: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com > [mailto:mylifeorgani...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Top Cat > Sent: 13 October 2009 2:23 p > To: MyLifeOrganized > Subject: [MLO] Re: Feature Suggestion: clearer terminology & > m

[MLO] Re: Feature Request: Different Organisation of Properties Pane for 'Folders'

2009-10-16 Thread Richard Collings
> > Hi Lisa, my objection to these unnecessary properties just > relates to clarity. Everyone uses MLO in different ways of > course, but what's the point of assigning a folder to be a > 'goal' if you can't complete it? Shouldn't a folder just > really be a label, with some additional feature

[MLO] Re: When a task has a start or due date the reminder should default to that date

2009-10-16 Thread Richard Collings
+1 -Original Message- From: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com [mailto:mylifeorgani...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark Levison Sent: 16 October 2009 2:02 a To: myLifeOrganized@googlegroups.com Subject: [MLO] When a task has a start or due date the reminder should default to that date A

[MLO] Re: Feature Request: Include flags in input parsing

2009-10-10 Thread Richard Collings
+1 I am using flags in a similar way (eg to flag my most important tasks) R > -Original Message- > From: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com > [mailto:mylifeorgani...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of qhamel > Sent: 10 October 2009 2:21 a > To: MyLifeOrganized > Subject: [MLO] Re: Feature Re

[MLO] Re: Feature request: Importance/Urgency sliders to do a relative change when multiple tasks are selected.

2009-10-10 Thread Richard Collings
nd "relative" when you > drag with Shift pressed : ) > > /// Sergey > > On Oct 8, 3:18 pm, "Richard Collings" wrote: > > ie: when you select multiple tasks and adjust the sliders - eg move > > them down a notch,  this should move the sliders on all the > sele

[MLO] Re: Major drawback of MLO - outline filtering

2009-10-10 Thread Richard Collings
Er - why (re filtering out future dated tasks)? And what do you mean by dynamic sorting (as before - just interested). -Original Message- From: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com [mailto:mylifeorgani...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Lisa Stroyan Sent: 08 October 2009 9:38 p To: mylifeorga

[MLO] Re: Major drawback of MLO - outline filtering

2009-10-08 Thread Richard Collings
I am interested in what you would both use outline filtering for. Not being negative here, just interested. > -Original Message- > From: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com > [mailto:mylifeorgani...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of pkelecy > Sent: 07 October 2009 1:34 p > To: MyLifeOrganiz

[MLO] Feature request: Importance/Urgency sliders to do a relative change when multiple tasks are selected.

2009-10-08 Thread Richard Collings
ie: when you select multiple tasks and adjust the sliders - eg move them down a notch, this should move the sliders on all the selected tasks down notch (rather than, as it does at the moment, set the task sliders on the selected tasks to the absolute value of where you have moved the slider's to

[MLO] Re: Feature Request: Add 'routinely' to task scheduling

2009-10-07 Thread Richard Collings
gt; (as I tried to explain > above) then this would become a really advanced and most > useful feature because one could have a host of recuring > tasks that do not nag us with 'due dates' but rather nudge up > in the hierarchy based on their calculated importance. It >

[MLO] Re: Feature Request: Allow tasks to be 'dropped' rather than completed or deleted

2009-10-07 Thread Richard Collings
+1I made a similar request recently (although in my case, I used the term 'Dead') > -Original Message- > From: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com > [mailto:mylifeorgani...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dan > Sent: 07 October 2009 1:19 a > To: MyLifeOrganized > Subject: [MLO] Feature R

[MLO] Re: Feature Request: Add 'routinely' to task scheduling

2009-10-05 Thread Richard Collings
This is an interesting idea which I have a lot of sympathy with but unless I am missing something, I am not clear how this would work. Are you suggesting an additional date field? Or what? Would one way of implementing this to simply have an option ''Don't show dates in Todo view' (or something

[MLO] Re: Missing action filter: like Active but includes future dated items?

2009-09-26 Thread Richard Collings
I think you would need to add (not(HasIncompleteSubTasks)) too. My point is that it is not straight forward to produce an Active View which includes future tasks and I would have thought that people who are interested in using MLO for planning would find this a useful view. It would seem t

[MLO] Missing action filter: like Active but includes future dated items?

2009-09-25 Thread Richard Collings
Am I missing something but is it quite difficult/impossible to have a view which is the same as the Active filter but which includes items in the future and which ignores the Start Date and the Complete Sub-tasks in order? The problem with trying to do this with the All filter and then applying A

[MLO] Re: Feature request: option to show immediate parent in To Do view

2009-09-14 Thread Richard Collings
Thanks, Mike. Some of the parents are projects as defined by GTD (and are marked as such) but others are folders where I have grouped a set of tasks that I want to look at a particular point in the day or week (eg @EveningCatchUp). And what I would like to be able to do is get to the parent (or

[MLO] Re: MLO doesn't always remember column settings

2009-09-13 Thread Richard Collings
then a copy with the column gone. > > On Sep 8, 11:51 pm, "Richard Collings" wrote: > > I don't think this is the cause. > > > > I am pretty certain that I have seen the following > situation: 1.  add > > column to view 2.  save view - asterisk d

[MLO] What's the expected behaviour of the 'Select context' dialog box when you have multiple items selected

2009-09-13 Thread Richard Collings
I was hoping to use this dialog box to remove the assignments from a context for a group of tasks so I selected the tasks in the Outline view and clicked on the ... box next to the Context's field in the Properties window which pops up the 'Select context' dialog box. I had expected it to show t

[MLO] Re: Feature request: option to show immediate parent in To Do view

2009-09-13 Thread Richard Collings
I have just had an idea about this. The main time that I want to access the parent is to adjust the Due Date that is determining the date shown against a child that is appearing in the To Do view. Could we have an icon which appears when the Due Date for an item is being determined by an item hi

[MLO] Re: MLO doesn't always remember column settings

2009-09-13 Thread Richard Collings
. > -Original Message- > From: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com > [mailto:mylifeorgani...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Richard Collings > Sent: 08 September 2009 9:52 p > To: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com > Subject: [MLO] Re: MLO doesn't always remember column s

[MLO] Feature tweak: Closing the Context's dialog box should refresh the To Do view

2009-09-12 Thread Richard Collings
At the moment, if you go into the Context's dialog box and (eg) change the Hours of a context and click Close, the To Do list doesn't not refresh to reflect the change. You have to hit F5. I would imagine this would be confusing for beginners and it is an extra and redundant key press. --~--~---

[MLO] Re: Abbreviations for day of the week - what are they and can they be edited

2009-09-09 Thread Richard Collings
Advanced Features" - "Input parsing". > > One of the undocumented features I've found with parsing is > that sometimes you don't even need spaces e.g. thu1p will > give you next thursday at 1pm. Every saved key press helps! ;-) > > On Sep 9, 5:5

[MLO] Abbreviations for day of the week - what are they and can they be edited

2009-09-08 Thread Richard Collings
For some reason, MLO doesn't seem to recognise Thur, Thurs or Thr as abbreviations for Thursday. I have to type the full name. Is there some way of finding out what the abbrevations are that it does recognise? And can they be amended? If not, can this be changed in a future edition. Rich

[MLO] Re: MLO doesn't always remember column settings

2009-09-08 Thread Richard Collings
e new settings - save them with the same or new name. > > So if you change columns while you in changed view mode the > new configuration should be saved to the VIEW before you > close MLO. (Filter->Save settings). > > Andrey. > > > > On Sep 4, 11:47 am, &quo

[MLO] Re: Feature Request: Multiple Instances

2009-09-08 Thread Richard Collings
Ah but you can't open multiple instances on the same file - as far as I can see. If you start a second instance of MLO (having ticked the 'Allow multiple instances' box) and then try and open a file that you have open already in the first instance, the focus just switches to the first instance a

[MLO] Re: Feature Request: Multiple Instances

2009-09-07 Thread Richard Collings
Lots of requests for this previously in various forms but for the record +1 TBH I think this would be my No 1 request now. > -Original Message- > From: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com > [mailto:mylifeorgani...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Stanley > Sent: 07 September 2009 12:47 a > T

[MLO] Re: Bug: Format of ToDo Views Unstable

2009-09-07 Thread Richard Collings
As just posted, I also have this problem and this is just running MLO on a single machine. > -Original Message- > From: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com > [mailto:mylifeorgani...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of chuckdevee > Sent: 04 September 2009 8:56 a > To: MyLifeOrganized > Subject: [

[MLO] Re: MLO doesn't always remember column settings

2009-09-07 Thread Richard Collings
feorganized@googlegroups.com > [mailto:mylifeorgani...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Richard Collings > Sent: 04 September 2009 9:48 a > To: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com > Subject: [MLO] Re: MLO doesn't always remember column settings > Importance: High > > > &g

[MLO] Re: Feature request: use Enter and Tab keys in outline view

2009-09-07 Thread Richard Collings
+ 1 to both. Or Ctrl+Enter for new entry - this is still quicker than Insert - particularly on a laptop. > -Original Message- > From: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com > [mailto:mylifeorgani...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Top Cat > Sent: 06 September 2009 10:01 p > To: MyLifeOrganize

[MLO] Re: Feature request: Hot key to jump to first task in To Do list

2009-09-04 Thread Richard Collings
yLifeOrganized > Subject: [MLO] Re: Feature request: Hot key to jump to first > task in To Do list > > > > On either tab, the Home key moves selection to the top of the list. > > > On Aug 31, 7:09 am, "Richard Collings" wrote: > > Another minor tweak w

[MLO] Re: Can't order groups by imporance/urgency computed score?

2009-09-04 Thread Richard Collings
No filters were applied. > -Original Message- > From: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com > [mailto:mylifeorgani...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Timothee > Sent: 04 September 2009 7:06 a > To: MyLifeOrganized > Subject: [MLO] Re: Can't order groups by imporance/urgency > computed score?

[MLO] Re: Feature request: select a group of tasks in ToDo view and mark them all done in a single click

2009-09-04 Thread Richard Collings
task with all subtasks. Done (at least in my version). > > The only problem would be if you would like to complete only > parent task without its subtask. But it should be very rarely > the case. > > Daneb > > On Aug 30, 12:11 pm, "Richard Collings" wrote:

[MLO] Re: MLO doesn't always remember column settings

2009-09-04 Thread Richard Collings
My problem (MLO just losing column settings) seems to have gone away - the settings I have chosen now seem to have stuck so I must have done what ever it is that you need to do to make sure that MLO saves them. But there is a definite problem with it not saving them as you would expect. >

[MLO] Feature request: Hot key to jump to first task in To Do list

2009-08-31 Thread Richard Collings
Another minor tweak which would be really helpful. I very often find myself switching back to the To Do view having done stuff in the Outline view which has resulted in changes to the To Do list and the first thing I want to do is jump to the first item in the To Do list. At the moment, it is not

[MLO] Re: MLO doesn't always remember column settings

2009-08-31 Thread Richard Collings
Hmmm - its very odd. I am fairly certain that I have done this (actively save the file after changing the column settings) and its still losing the column settings. What is odd that I have tried closing the file and reopening it after doing the save and the column is still there. And yet when

[MLO] Re: Feature request: select a group of tasks in ToDo view and mark them all done in a single click

2009-08-30 Thread Richard Collings
lete as you > select. If you wanted to do a final review before you > complete multiple items you can always untick auto update > beforehand and then retick it if the completions are ok. > > On Aug 30, 12:05 am, "Richard Collings" wrote: > > Version 3.0.1 &

[MLO] Re: Feature request: select a group of tasks in ToDo view and mark them all done in a single click

2009-08-29 Thread Richard Collings
Version 3.0.1 Doesn't appear to work in the To Do view - just completes the task that has been ticked. > -Original Message- > From: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com > [mailto:mylifeorgani...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of pottster > Sent: 29 August 2009 4:30 p > To: MyLifeOrganized > Su

[MLO] Re: Computed-Score Priority and Start Dates

2009-07-16 Thread Richard Collings
> > > > > 1) Don't use the urgency slider > > > 2) Set the preference to by importance only > > > 3) Use the hierarchal priority method > > > > > That should suffice for anyone's needs;  the program has > got so many > > > diffe

[MLO] Re: Computed-Score Priority and Start Dates

2009-07-15 Thread Richard Collings
Hi Bob Thanks for the detailed reply. I have a question and then an observation re: > > The weekly goal was an option carried over from the > Hierarchal Method; that just got grafted into the CSA. > > It simply affects Urgency; and it's from before the urgency > slider was added. It was a

[MLO] Re: Computed-Score Priority and Start Dates

2009-07-15 Thread Richard Collings
Hi Bob - you wrote: > > The depth of the outline really shouldn't come into play > UNLESS you use the WEEKLY GOAL setting. The weekly goal > applies a HUGE boost and that does cascade down because > that's the original design intent. It was the HOLLY CRAP > feature to make something POP to th

[MLO] Re: Computed-Score Priority and Start Dates

2009-07-14 Thread Richard Collings
Hi Bob Really interested in what you say about Rev2 trying to make depth in the outline less of a factor in the scoring process. This is my major hate in MLO - the way in which lower level items are automatically made more important than higher level items to the extent that it is often impossi

[MLO] Re: Feature Request: Rule Sets for Task Ordering

2009-06-30 Thread Richard Collings
Interesting idea. I was going to suggest that an option was added to the ordering options which provide a the option to select a non-recursive algorithm so that lower level items are not automatically ordered in front of other items which are higher in the hierarchy - my most hated feature of

[MLO] Re: Feature Request: Planing the week

2009-06-27 Thread Richard Collings
I would vote for something like this. > -Original Message- > From: myLifeOrganized@googlegroups.com > [mailto:mylifeorgani...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of pottster > Sent: 25 June 2009 11:05 a > To: MyLifeOrganized > Subject: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Planing the week > > > > How a

[MLO] Re: Repriorizing

2009-06-19 Thread Richard Collings
This has been my major complaint about MLO for the last two years (and other people have periodically made the same complaint) but for some reason (which I still don't understand) it does not appear to feature in Andrey's list of priorities and he is almost completely silent on the subject. :-(

[MLO] Re: Feature Request: Planing the week

2009-06-14 Thread Richard Collings
This sounds remarkably like the calendar view that has been much requested!! > -Original Message- > From: myLifeOrganized@googlegroups.com > [mailto:mylifeorgani...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > jaydog@googlemail.com > Sent: 13 June 2009 6:11 p > To: MyLifeOrganized > Subject: [M

[MLO] Re: Multiple Instances How to?

2009-06-11 Thread Richard Collings
All I can say is Agree Totally x 3 Unfortunately, it looks as if we are in a minority. The focus of recent releases has been on improving filtering and on formatting. I am hoping that this work is now complete (as it is of little interest to me) and that Andrey will turn his attention to some

[MLO] Re: Multiple Instances How to?

2009-06-10 Thread Richard Collings
I don't think it allows you to open the same file more than once - I am still on a much older version when you open a second copy of MLO and then try and open the .ml file that you have open in the first instance, the focus just switches to the first instance. This has been a much requested featu

[MLO] Re: how to modify a specific instance of a recurring task

2009-04-29 Thread Richard Collings
googlegroups.com > [mailto:mylifeorgani...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Richard Collings > Sent: 29 April 2009 1:21 a > To: myLifeOrganized@googlegroups.com > Subject: [MLO] Re: how to modify a specific instance of a > recurring task > > > > There have been a number of

[MLO] Re: how to modify a specific instance of a recurring task

2009-04-28 Thread Richard Collings
There have been a number of requests for this. I would certainly find it very useful. At the moment, there are two options: 1) Go into the recurrence dialog and change the date there 2) Add a sub-task with the same name. It will be this task that appears in the To Do list and you can then

[MLO] Re: Feature Request: Weekly planning capability

2009-03-28 Thread Richard Collings
A much requested and in my view, eminently sensible, feature, but one on which, sadly, Andrey is completely silent - which I tend to take as a 'No'. Its certainly not included in the next round of enhancements just announced which will take us to Version 3. :-( > -Original Message- >

[MLO] Re: Prioritizing Items ToDo Today - Suggestions Wanted

2009-03-17 Thread Richard Collings
If it helps - I agree that this is an individual preference. OK - so there are bunch of other people out there who say it is not necessary but in my view they are wrong!!! It may work for some but it doesn't work for me. What Andrey has to weigh up is whether there are enough of use "Getting T

[MLO] Re: Prioritizing Items ToDo Today - Suggestions Wanted

2009-03-17 Thread Richard Collings
l to create today's job list. > > Nick > > > -Original Message- > From: Richard Collings > Sent: 15 March 2009 11:57 > To: myLifeOrganized@googlegroups.com > Subject: [MLO] Re: Prioritizing Items ToDo Today - Suggestions Wanted > > > > > >

[MLO] Re: Feature Request: gant view.

2009-03-15 Thread Richard Collings
- From: myLifeOrganized@googlegroups.com [mailto:mylifeorgani...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark Levison Sent: 13 March 2009 8:45 p To: myLifeOrganized@googlegroups.com Subject: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: gant view. On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Richard Collings wrote: OK - standard Scrum type s

[MLO] Re: +10 for gantt

2009-03-15 Thread Richard Collings
+1 (just in case anybody was in any doubt). Anything that allows me to see more clearly how much work plans are looking over the next few days/weeks is to be massively welcomed. > -Original Message- > From: myLifeOrganized@googlegroups.com > [mailto:mylifeorgani...@googlegroups.com] O

[MLO] Re: Prioritizing Items ToDo Today - Suggestions Wanted

2009-03-15 Thread Richard Collings
> > If exact ordering is required, then it might pay to look more > at how the Outline is structured with the ToDo list views > just acting as a representation of the existing order. > In which case, why use MLO. You can just do this in Word or some other note taking/outlining software. W

[MLO] Re: Prioritizing Items ToDo Today - Suggestions Wanted

2009-03-15 Thread Richard Collings
Thanks for doing this, Nick. Your experience mirrors mine exactly with MLO. MLO has consistently frustrated my attempts to order tasks precisely WHICH IS WHAT I WANT (Sorry to use capital here but no attempts to persuade me otherwise is going to succeed - for the reasons that you have succinctly

[MLO] Re: Prioritizing Items ToDo Today - Suggestions Wanted

2009-03-13 Thread Richard Collings
Another interpretation (from a more jaundiced view) of what Steve is saying is that using Weekly Goal breaks the Computerised Scoring algorithm (something I have moaned about in the past) because of the way in which it recursively boosts the score of everything that is under the item to which you

[MLO] Re: Feature Request: gant view.

2009-03-13 Thread Richard Collings
...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark Levison Sent: 13 March 2009 1:59 p To: myLifeOrganized@googlegroups.com Subject: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: gant view. On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Richard Collings wrote: Agile people do like their little aphorisms. :-) Thanks we like to think we're witt

[MLO] Re: Feature Request: gant view.

2009-03-12 Thread Richard Collings
Agile people do like their little aphorisms. :-) However, I am intrigued - how do you plan? Somebody says to you, 'when can you get this done by?' how do you work it out? -Original Message- From: myLifeOrganized@googlegroups.com [mailto:mylifeorgani...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of

[MLO] Re: Prioritizing Items ToDo Today - Suggestions Wanted

2009-03-10 Thread Richard Collings
(What Nick says)^2 But I guess that is no surprise! > -Original Message- > From: myLifeOrganized@googlegroups.com > [mailto:mylifeorgani...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of metroboy > Sent: 10 March 2009 5:05 p > To: MyLifeOrganized > Subject: [MLO] Re: Prioritizing Items ToDo Today - Sug

[MLO] Re: MLO version 2.5.1 BETA

2009-02-23 Thread Richard Collings
There have been previous requests for a separate feature to be able to change the due date of current instance of a recurring task (but without changing overall recurrence pattern for the task) for precisely the reason you outline, Alinda. I have to do this all the time - eg I have something that

[MLO] Re: Prioritizing Items ToDo Today - Suggestions Wanted

2009-02-15 Thread Richard Collings
Hi Nick An excellent post which I also agree with a 100%. Just picking out a couple of points to emphasise: >I could keep coming and scanning that > list over and over...but I am cursed with being easily > distracted, and with rethinking decisions that have already > been made. So every ti

[MLO] Re: Prioritizing Items ToDo Today - Suggestions Wanted

2009-02-14 Thread Richard Collings
nd of the day or > when you next have breathing room for processing time, get > your outline up to date again. > > On Feb 13, 7:46 pm, "Richard Collings" wrote: > > > As to manual priorities - I don't really think it is good idea. > > > > &g

[MLO] Re: Prioritizing Items ToDo Today - Suggestions Wanted

2009-02-13 Thread Richard Collings
> As to manual priorities - I don't really think it is good idea. > > Just imagine: You have thousands of tasks in your MLO > database - all waiting for your attention. And some day you > think "oh - it's good idea to complete task1 today! - and > assign it highest priority". But for some re

[MLO] Re: Task Recurrance Advanced Options

2009-02-10 Thread Richard Collings
Agreed. It would be good to make these options 'sticky' (ie: MLO remembers what you chose last time) > -Original Message- > From: myLifeOrganized@googlegroups.com > [mailto:mylifeorgani...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Eberhard > Sent: 10 February 2009 2:18 p > To: MyLifeOrganized > S

[MLO] Re: Prioritizing Items ToDo Today - Suggestions Wanted

2009-02-05 Thread Richard Collings
I feel sure I have voted on this in the past but just in case +1 Today Goal +1 Manual Sorting > -Original Message- > From: myLifeOrganized@googlegroups.com > [mailto:mylifeorgani...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of TimV > Sent: 05 February 2009 5:08 p > To: MyLifeOrganized > Subject: [MLO]

[MLO] Re: Computer Discipline - New software

2009-02-03 Thread Richard Collings
; click on the tray icon and from there you can start or stop > the program. > > I'll try to post some screenshots to the new google group. > > Cheers > Jon > > On Feb 3, 10:13 pm, "Richard Collings" wrote: > > Hi Jon > > > > This sounds

[MLO] Re: Computer Discipline - New software

2009-02-03 Thread Richard Collings
Hi Jon This sounds like a really interesting tool (I was thinking just the other day that it would be really good to be able to block sites that I keep getting distracted by (eg news sites)). However, I do have some questions about your product (eg how easily can one switch the blocking on and o

[MLO] Re: Drag and Drop in To Do list - how does this work?

2009-01-15 Thread Richard Collings
Hmmm. Some questions: 1. What order will the tasks be in when you first switch to Manual sort? 2. What happens when you (say) change the context in the Manual Sort view such that those tasks that were on display are filtered out; but a whole stack of new tasks appears - what order will these

[MLO] Re: Drag and Drop in To Do list - how does this work?

2009-01-13 Thread Richard Collings
> This "Manual Sort" option would really help me polish my GTD > implementation. Currently I mark Next Actions in the outline > (using Weekly Goals), and then select a subset of these Next > Actions to do today (using Due Dates). The problem is that > I'm left with 7 to 10 items in my "Today

[MLO] Re: Drag and Drop in To Do list - how does this work?

2009-01-11 Thread Richard Collings
sly fiddling with the > > Importance and Urgency sliders just to get the final order that I > > want! > > > > I've seen this functionality in other to-do programs, so it > certainly > > seems possible.  For example, Agenda At Once, Vitalist, and > > Ess

[MLO] Re: Ordering Tasks and "Use Time" (Feature Request?)

2009-01-10 Thread Richard Collings
This is high on my list (and a number of others) but previous requests have sadly elicited a deafening silence (as far as I can see) from Andrey (which I am interpreting as a 'No'). Happy to hear otherwise. > -Original Message- > From: myLifeOrganized@googlegroups.com > [mailto:mylifeor

[MLO] Re: Feature request - create all occurences of a recurring task

2009-01-07 Thread Richard Collings
> Yup, this would be critical if MLO is to add the significant > value of time management too (which would take it a step > beyond GTD which pretty much ignores this aspect of real life) > Hey that's interesting. Not having read GTD from cover to cover, I hadn't realised that GTD just doesn't

[MLO] Re: Calendar

2009-01-04 Thread Richard Collings
> projects and provide a clear view of what my hardlandscape > items are for a any day, appart from unscheduled tasks, and > long duration tasks. But I fear a Gantt approach would be > tons more work that what I am suggesting. > > If it would help, we could call what I want a &

[MLO] Re: Lead Time without Start or Due dates

2009-01-03 Thread Richard Collings
Oooh - so there is. I remembered the slider but had forgotten the Time Required fields. As far as I can remember, they are purely memo fields - ie MLO does not do anything with them. My recollection from when I was first looking at MLO is that I was quite disappointed by this. But happy to be

[MLO] Re: Lead Time without Start or Due dates

2009-01-03 Thread Richard Collings
I would definitely vote for something that allowed me to specify in absolute terms the amount of effort I reckon is involved in a task (in hours or days). Note: in my terminology: effort is the actual time I spend working on something; elapsed time is the difference between the end date/time

[MLO] Re: Drag and Drop in To Do list - how does this work?

2009-01-03 Thread Richard Collings
But without moving the tasks in the Outline hierarchy? Yes? The more I thought about it, the more 'wrong' this seemed.If I am working on two or three projects (which is fairly typical) what I want to be able to do with MLO is order these tasks manually in the To Do lists without the tasks

[MLO] Re: Calendar

2009-01-03 Thread Richard Collings
I agree 100% with all of this.What I need is some form of very cut down Gantt charty sort of thing where I can enter actual time estimates for each activity (or at least those activities that I need to plan out in detail) and then have MLO wrap this around my fixed appointments and my routine

[MLO] Re: Calendar

2009-01-02 Thread Richard Collings
+1 I know Andrey is not keen to make future predictions but has he said anything to indicate his thinking on this. If not, Andrey, could you at least give some indication of whether a calendar is a) completely out of the question; or b) something that you will give some consideration to at so

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