auto hiding completed task older than today

[Ying Dong]

I learned to use star to indicate the tasks need my focus. Once they are completed it hangs around in the starred view including those starred and done yesterday.  I can use hide completed shortcut to hide but that's very much manual. Ideally, I only want to see the task completed today not older. 

My questions are:

1. how does MLO define word "old" in "hide old completed task"? Is there a way I can configure that? Don't see it in the options. 

2. Is the filter based on the completion date the only option I can see today's completed tasks, but not yesterday's? How are you handling this use case in general? 

3. I guess leaving the completed task with a star is ok, kinda like audit trail. 

4. I don't know if MLO has some non-formatting triggers (so not auto-formatting) which can be executed after marking the task completed. 

Thanks.

[Andrei, Win&Droid MLO user]

hi

1) see attached 2 screenshots.

press with the left mouse button on the red circles. 

thus you can show only the recent completed tasks ("recent" - can be customized) 

enjoy!

2) ==//==

3) yep. you can also group tasks by completed status. Thus the list may look cleaner.

4) 

4.1) if you have tasks which depend on the completed one, then those tasks will become active.

more here:

MyLifeOrganized - Help 

chapter 6.10

4.2) also read about  the Complete subtasks in order feature.

4.3) some trigers can be defined by making tasks reccuring. see screenshot 3.

happy MLOwing !

Best regards

Andrew

вторник, 2 февраля 2021 г. в 19:51:17 UTC+2, Ying Dong:

[Andrei, Win&Droid MLO user]

here are the missed screenshots

среда, 3 февраля 2021 г. в 09:12:08 UTC+2, Andrei, Win&Droid MLO user:

[Ying Dong]

Thanks Andrei, 

1) I didn't look deep into the drop down list of "recent" in the filter. There are several different time periods and 1 custom setting. 

I didn't find any way to set a "show completed" setting as default so I end up manually setting up each individual view, which is a bit tedious as I usually lock default and pin the most-used views. It's ok for one-time effort. 
4) What I mean is kinda script which I can set up chain action, such as unstar when a starred task is completed. Something like tasker or automagic on Android. 

I guess I just need to get used to MLO style rather than spending more time to tune MLO. After setting up the folder structure and projects, I still spend too much time in data entry each day (desc, due,  dependency). Most tips I came across in the groups focus on initial setup. For day-to-day operation, I can only think of below steps:

* shortcut/hotkeys (entry, move to )

* pin-ed tab with its individual filter for quick access

* hide all the unused views

* open frequently-used properties and collapse un-freq. ones

I have yet to utilize computed-score which I guess related to importance and urgency, yet it seems to be related to due date. How do you use it? Is there a way to customize that?

[Stéph]

I agree, the lack of control of interactions between parameters can lead to a lot of clicks to set up each new item as you want it. I've pushed a few times for the ability to customise the initial parameters of a new task, so that some (eg due date) can be inherited from parent or sibling tasks, or (eg start date) set to the day the new task was created. To me, it's crazy that I can check off a task within a project, but the project status may still be tagged as "not started". Bonsai, a long-gone task outliner app, used to have customisation of inheritance or initial settings of properties, which saved lots of time.

My workaround is to set up my system to be as lean as possible - use only the parameters I need to use to be able to filter my outline effectively.

Stéphane