A tip for those using Star

[Lisa Stroyan]

I've been trying to break down my tasks into "actions" ala GTD, but the problem I run into is that often by the time I'm reviewing them, they have propagated up to my "daily" list, and I have a Star on the main task but it doesn't get inherited to the children, and I keep thinking it will get lost.  

However, I just realized that both the Active Starred and Starred views automatically put the star on new tasks created within them (and continue to do so even if the view is modified, unless you save the view under a new name, at which point it is no longer a built-in view and doesn't have this special behavior).

So, from the Starred view I can hit "Alt-Ins" to create a child task, and the Star will be added automatically, not through inheritance, but through the view itself.

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Lisa

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[Stephen Jones]

Thanks Lisa,

Good tip

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[Richard C]

I solve this problem in a different way (that violates GTD thinking but it works for me!). 

 

I like the bit of GTD that says break tasks down into small parts - it helps me try and focus on one thing at a time when I am working on that tasks but I like to see the top level task in my main ToDo.       So I star the main task and filter that view on the main task.   

 

I then create an 'Activities' task underneath this and immediately flag this as 'Hide in ToDo view'  (Alt+E).  This ensures that the main task remains in my Main ToDo view.      I then have a 'Focus Task' tab for the big task that I am currently trying to focus on which displays in Outlook view.    I zoom on the main task so that I can just see the activities that I have created under the main task.   This means that as I am working on that task, I can quickly add new activiites that come to mind and tick things off as I complete them.  And if I decide that I need to do a later activity now because that now makes sense, I can do so with out needing to fiddle around with task order.

 

At the end of the day, I mark the top level task done and record how much time I spent on it during the day.  If I haven't completed everything, then I use the alternate complete option which creates a new copy of the task and drag all the completed activities under the completed copy - so I can see what I achieved in the day (can be satisfying or not, as the case may be)

 

As I say, its not GTD as we know it but a measure of the flexibility of MLO that one can devise other ways of working that suit your own particular style and needs.

 

Just thought I would share that.  Now back to my focus task!!

 

Richard

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[Lisa Stroyan]

Thanks, I've used Hide-in-todo when I don't want to see the steps but I hadn't thought of gathering them all in a parent task so I don't have to set it on each child separately.

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