Is it possible to create a view whereby I drag & drop to change the sort order of Contexts?

[J Smith]

Hello

Is it possible to create a view whereby I drag & drop to change the sort order of Contexts?

Scenario: 

e.g I want to do Errands, then some Personal_Admin, then some Low_Brain_Energy to recharge my brain, then at least one oft the some stuff I've been putting off (which I "Frog") then some sort of Down-time as a reward... You get the picture.

So the thing is that I'm NOT expecting to complete all the items in each category, but will need to be pragmatic and move on when I run out of time.

If I have multiple task within a project and have starred the project, I can keep going on the project until time is up. And I can of course put whole *projects* into whichever sequential order I choose v easily simply by using drag and drop. 

However it becomes harder to do the same things with clusters of tasks when are only connected by being in the same Context rather than sharing a parent task.

It becomes a particular problem when I am looking at a larger number of tasks, which are falling in to a number of contexts, all of which I have starred as "do today if I can"

See my problem?

J

  

[Dwight Arthur]

Hi, John. I'm not sure that I actually see your problem. Contexts are sorted in ascending alphabetical order based on the native collating sequence of the device you are using. 

On Monday, November 2, 2015 at 1:13:04 PM UTC-5, J Smith wrote:You cannot alter the collating sequence using drag and drop or any other tool that I am aware of. You can, however, modify the context names to controll how they sort. For example, suppose that your context names are 01-Errands, 02-Personal_Admin, 03-Low_Brain_Energy and so on. The tasks would sort into the order you seem to have in mind.You could then move errands to last position by renaming it 04-Errands.

Here's another way to approach this issue.

- Find the view named Active By Context and bring it up.

- hit F6 to collapse every context

- find the context you want to work on next and hit Ctrl-R to zoom in.

- when you are done witgh this context hit ctrl-alt-R then f6.

- look for your next context and repeat

[J Smith]

Dwight

What I'm trying to create is a temporary list of contexts just for today's use.

i.e. I have a bunch of stuff to do today. They fall into about say 7 contexts. "Group by Contexts" puts them nicely into groups, but it also forces the Contexts to be in alphabetical order. As you say, one solution is to rename the contexts. Yes, that would work. But it's a time-consuming fiddly 'hammer to crack a nut'. I just want a quick temporary fix for today's use only.

I guess what I'm wanting is a view that  "groups tasks by context but allows the sort the sequence of contexts manually".

To explain my requirement: This is mainly a psychological booster. i.e. I might say to myself:

If spend 1 hour on "Dull-context-A" and then an hour on  "Rather-tedious-context-Z" and 30 mins on "Boring-context-Q" then I can reward myself with some time doing "Context-F-for-fun".

This will:
A) Help me get cracking on  "Dull-context-A"
B) Remind me what the heck I'd committed (to myself) to then be doing next. And this would stop be getting distracted.

J

J

P.S.

I'd forgotten about F6 - thanks :)

[Dwight Arthur]

Hi, John. The times that i have done something similar I have made a high priority manual list (return calls, do paperwork,  reply to pending emails) and when each item comes to the top of my today list i open the associated context and do whats there. Inelegant but it works. If i wanted an elegant solution i would probably use folders in place of contexts, assign an appropriate importance to  each folder, let computed score propagate parent importance to the children, and then just work off of a list ordered by computed score
-Dwight
MLO Betazoid on Android SGN4

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[J Smith]

Hmm... I'm reluctant to mess with my folders as that would conflict with other uses.

I quite like your idea of doing something in the dirt world - not least if it's written on paper it can be highly visible and being not too easy to change your commitment is arguably how it should be... How'sabout this "4-Event Digital Timer with Dry Erase Whiteboard" 

Not very MLO, but even allows you give yourself time limits if required.

In the meantime I have also worked out that I could set up one view per Context in the left hand Views pane and could drag and drop them up and down the screen. The trouble is that I have gotten used to seeing them in alphabetical order...

I shall test the former and revert.  :)

[Wallace Gilbraith]

I guess you could create a few tasks like 'do context = dull', 'do context = boring ', 'do context = tedious', 'do context = fun', and star them all. Then you can move them into whatever order you want in your Starred list

Wol


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[J Smith]

Indeed, but that's a whole load of extra tasks cluttering up the place. Would work but not elegant.

J

[John . Smith]

Sorry to bang on about this issue - but how do you other people actually run/plan/manage using your Contexts?

e.g. Do you put blocks of time when you plan to be in each context into a calendar? 

Or do you just fail to plan them and merely see what sort of mood you are in and sort of jump between contexts when the mood takes you... or what?(!)

J