Column 'Assignee'

[Денис Погорелов]

Hello!

MyLifeOrganized is very powerful and usable product. But one deficiency negates all the advantages. No column 'Assignee'. It's extremely inconvenient. I can't see who is assigned the task without additional action. And I can't sort tasks by the responsible persons. 

For this reason, I don't even consider the possibility of using MyLifeOrganized. But maybe you make the little add-on?

[Dwight Arthur]

Hi Денис,
Have you considered using context to track your delegations? You would create a context for each person to whom you regularly delegate tasks (for example, >Dwight) and whenever you delegate a task you would add the person's context to any other contexts (such as @work) that the task may already have.
-Dwight
-Dwight
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[pottster]

In addition to Dwight's suggestion you might also consider using Flags. The advantages of Flags for this purpose are that: -

1. If you switch the task to another person it's simpler to change since a task can only have one flag
2. You can sort by Flags - the sort order follows the order you set in Manage Flags
3. Flags can be colour coded or have different icons for quick reference

[Денис Погорелов]

Yes, I have. But that requires additional action to see the result. And I have to compare data from two windows. It's very inconvenient. 

четверг, 21 августа 2014 г., 18:31:33 UTC+4 пользователь Dwight Arthur написал:

[Денис Погорелов]

The task can be assigned to more than one person. And the color of the flags is difficult to see in bright sunlight.

пятница, 22 августа 2014 г., 4:05:58 UTC+4 пользователь pottster написал:

[Dwight Arthur]

Could you explain? Whatever view you normally use probably includes a “context” column and if it does not, it could easily be added as a permanent part of your view. What additional action is needed, and why do you have to compare data from two windows?

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[Денис Погорелов]

Sorry, mixed up with notes.

It's a good idea.

пятница, 22 августа 2014 г., 16:53:42 UTC+4 пользователь Dwight Arthur написал:

[Stéph]

One more workaround suggestion.  "Assignee" or "Contact" was a field I used in Bonsai and I missed it when I switched to MLO.  However, the search function, or the inline text search/filter on the iPad, has got so powerful that I'm happy to use a different method:

 

When I delegate a task, or need to contact someone about it, I hashtag their name at the top of the note field.  Actually I use a ?, but any tag will do - ?Mark, ?John, or #Mark, #John, etc.  When I'm talking to Mark, for example, I then quickly type #Mark into the serach field and "hey presto!", all of the tasks relevant to Mark come up in a list in the results.  It works really well for me and might help you too.

 

Stéphane

[Денис Погорелов]

Thanks for the advice. However, this method is inconvenient for me.

воскресенье, 24 августа 2014 г., 23:34:55 UTC+4 пользователь Stéph написал:

[Денис Погорелов]

Oh, sorry. I've confused the context with the notes. It's a good idea.

пятница, 22 августа 2014 г., 16:53:42 UTC+4 пользователь Dwight Arthur написал:

[Joel Azaria]

Your request got me thinking about this as it seems it could be useful at some point... After thinking through, this is the workaround that made the most sense to me.  Maybe you'll find it useful too.

• Use contexts to track the Agenda people (same as assignees).  Use a # symbol in front of people's names to make them sort at the top of the list of contexts.  This also makes all the ppls names group together at the top so is easy to find and assign them to tasks
  
• By adding the Context column to my views, I see all the contexts listed in a column like you wanted..  So far so good..
• When MLO displays the Context column it displays in whatever order the contexts were added to the task so your peoples' names might not always list first and so won't show in my column.  However:
  
• Both iOS and Android put/add contexts in alpha order!  This automatically puts our #people to sort first and show in the column first.
• Windows adds the contexts in whatever order you type them into the Properties->General tab.  It puts them in alpha order though if you click the '...' and choose them from the list.
• I also found that anytime you hit the '...' button, if you then click ok, it sorts the contexts into alpha order for you. So... 
• if you just make a habit of clicking the '...' and hitting ok, either when you first assign or maybe when you do a weekly/daily review on these tasks, the columns will stay in alpha order and this could be a workable workaround.
• I did not test all the ways of adding a task to mlo and/or adding contexts to tasks;  my assumption is that only the act of manually typing in contexts to the Properties->General tab creates out-of-sort-order contexts and any programatic ways (checking off the contexts from a list, moving between branches and inherit contexts, etc) would create alpha-sorted contexts lists

Another tool is to make some views or workspaces that limit the view to just delegated tasks.  

Again using contexts as above, combined with parent contexts, make this pretty easy to use and to maintain.