Suggestion: A "faded" stars

[J Smith]

Hello 

Like many of us, I suspect, at the start (or end) of every day, I like to choose what I need to focus on during the next 24 hours by giving each relevant task a Star so that it appears on the "Active Starred" view.

However when I go through all my tasks, rather than losing track of what was Starred *yesterday* completely, I would find it quite useful to still be able to "yesterday's" Stars.

So what I suggest is that instead of being binary on/off, that Stars are now given three possible values: On, Off and a new value "Dim".

i.e. With each successive click the star appears could 'cycle' around and appears 

bright ==> then faded ==> then disappears

 ==>  then bright ==> then faded ==> then disappears  (etc)

I suggest faded stars probably *should* still appear on the "Active Starred" view.

This would allow us to go into the "Active Starred" view,  select the all, and make the whole lot go faded and then just select the important Stars for today, without losing track of what was Starred yesterday.

Any takers?

J

 

[robisme (Olivier R)]

Hi,

You have the possibility to group view by "starred date". Perhaps this might help you achieve your purpose?

Olivier

[J Smith]

Hi Oliver

Yes, nice try... but not quite the same thing. 

For one thing it ends up meaning I need to create yet another View - and I already have too many views. 

For another the visual impact is different. 

I would agree though that whatever functionality is added to MLO at this point, it's crucial that doesn't end up getting in the way of what is already a very complicated feeling interface...

 

J

[robisme (Olivier R)]

Well,

Perhaps could you try the auto-formating feature.

Unfortunatly, there is no "starred date" condition, but there is a "last modified" you may use, in conjunction with the "starred" conditions. But it would also involve any modification, which is perhaps not exactly what you are seeking for.

MLO Team should add the already existing filter field "starred date" in the list of autoformating conditions.

Olivier

[J Smith]

Interesting - if fractionally tortuous. I can't imagine many users will use that. 

Has anybody already requested that the MLO team add the "Starred Date" to the autoformating conditions?

J