Repeating tasks - how to automatically reset star

[Troy Lundblad]

I have some repeating routines daily, weekday, weekly. When I do my daily review in the morning I star them if I plan on getting to them right away.  The problem is that the star stays on when they repeat. I would like the star status to reset so that it doesn't crowd my "starred" view unless I want them to.

Any thoughts? Or maybe another perspective and foregoing the use of the "star" is more appropriate. 

Many thanks.

[Andrei Bacean]

Hi Troy

I had a similar situation.

I solved it by creating a new starred view which hides the starred tasks with next reccuerence in the future.

Here is a screenshot of the view settings.

The view is showing the following tasks:
1) tasks which are starred and have no start date

2) tasks which are starred and reccure before tomorrow

3) tasks which are starred and are not reccuring but have a start date

The above 3 filters should cover your requirement.

You can write this rules by yourself or you can download the attached view and import it to your MLO profile.

The new view will be added to your view list and you can use it immediately after the import.

br

ab

четверг, 23 февраля 2017 г., 10:58:12 UTC+2 пользователь Troy Lundblad написал:

[Troy Lundblad]

You are a legend!

Many thanks for sharing your file and for taking the time to respond.  I think I have to spend a bit more time understanding the power of the "views". Often I'll try to do mechanically something that is really just a matter of perspective.  

This MLO really is quite a great program once you get the hang of the details.

[Wallace Gilbraith]

My Starred view displays recently completed tasks, so I un-Start them once they’re checked off ass done

 

Regards

 

Wol

 

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Hi Troy

 

I had a similar situation.

I solved it by creating a new starred view which hides the starred tasks with next reccuerence in the future.

Here is a screenshot of the view settings.

The view is showing the following tasks:
1) tasks which are starred and have no start date

2) tasks which are starred and reccure before tomorrow

3) tasks which are starred and are not reccuring but have a start date

The above 3 filters should cover your requirement.

 

You can write this rules by yourself or you can download the attached view and import it to your MLO profile.

The new view will be added to your view list and you can use it immediately after the import.

 

br

ab

 

 

 

 

 

 

четверг, 23 февраля 2017 г., 10:58:12 UTC+2 пользователь Troy Lundblad написал:

I have some repeating routines daily, weekday, weekly. When I do my daily review in the morning I star them if I plan on getting to them right away.  The problem is that the star stays on when they repeat. I would like the star status to reset so that it doesn't crowd my "starred" view unless I want them to.

 

Any thoughts? Or maybe another perspective and foregoing the use of the "star" is more appropriate. 

 

Many thanks.

 

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[Andrei Bacean]

Hi again Troy

The new starred view which I posted in the previous message has a disadvantage.

Its task order is not synced across mobile and windows platforms.

So, here is another solution:

Create 2 views to display starred tasks:

1) Active Starred view (it's available by default on windows/android/ios. The manual sort inside this view is synced through all devices)

and

2) Starred but not active

So, regarding your usecase: the Starred tasks with NextReccurence=Tomorrow won't be shown in the first view however they will be visible in the second view.

Also in the second view you can group tasks by start date, thus you'll have a better overview.

The Advanced filter configuration for the second view is the following:
Starred is true

and

GROUP
   ActiveAction is False
   or
   StartDateTime after Now

happy MLO-ing!

;)

br

ab

четверг, 23 февраля 2017 г., 16:47:46 UTC+2 пользователь Troy Lundblad написал:

[Troy Lundblad]

Hi Andrei, 

Thanks for posting this! Very thoughtful of you to follow up. 

All best, 

Troy

[Michel V]

Getting back with this old question. 

I'm not too sure if this is the right place for a feature request. This community is great for coming up with solutions within MLO's capabilities but I feel the Star handling just need a tiny improvement from the developer.

In my mind, and many others I suspect, the Star is a tool to quickly flag a task as a focus for this moment in time. Not forever. In today's planning for example. The Star is not a definitive task property because the next time it come around in a list, other things might require the "Star" attention. Other definitive task properties can be used for that like Importance and Urgency. All the suggested ways around only add manipulations while we're all trying to be more efficient. Why would I need to uncheck completed Starred? Why would I need to look at (2) Starred views, why would I see a Star next to a task that is not active, started, due etc... The fact is that when a task gets completed, the next occurrence should not be Starred. However, I realize that MLO needs to keep it's flexibility and that some users may have elaborate complex strategies that needs that Star property to remain as is.

An easy fix would be to make it an option like "Reset Star after completion". This option could be in the Task recurrence Advanced Options menu for individual task behaviour.

Michel

[Andrei Bacean]

+1 for this feature.

It is also possible to use autoformatting rules to hide the task name (by assigning a white text color).

Thus, all recurring and starred tasks, which have a start date in the feature are still displaying but they are less disturbing due to an invisible task name.

Best wishes

Andrei

понедельник, 22 июня 2020 г., 16:57:34 UTC+3 пользователь Michel V написал:

[Michel V]

Andrei,

Thanks for sharing. As I mentioned, MLO is great at letting users come-up with alternative solutions but sometimes it remains a band-aid solution that forces you to remember how the patch works. For example, you have a task in the future with Paul. Paul leaves you a message today so you quickly search for the task and hit "Star" to easily remind you to call him back by the end of the day, in your Starred list. Because the start date is still in the future, this task will remain "White" in your list and you will not see it. Therefore you have to remember about that fix and instead of doing a simple Star touch you now need to edit the task to some extent.

Again, I really, really can't see how the Star feature can be used without being reset. There are many other fields that can serve the integral task classification like ; Urgency, Importance, Flags, Tags, Contexts, Project, Parent, Folder, Naming convention... In my opinion the Star is a quick focus attribute that should not be cast in stone.

Regards.

Michel