sort projects by sub-task's modification date?

[robisme (Olivier R)]

Hello,

I'd like to focus on the projects for which nothing has been done for a long time: no new task, no task done, etc.

How could I sort them?

I tried to sort by "modification date", but I don't want to focus only on the project's properies (caption, context or whatever), but mainly on its sub-tasks.

In short : what are my forgotten projects.

Is there a way?

Thank you.

Olivier

[pottster]

I use Automatic Formatting to prompt me about forgotten tasks/projects. Otherwise, any regular review process should be designed to monitor progress or lack of it. I think the Weekly Review is one of the most neglected aspects of GTD.

[Dwight Arthur]

What would happen if you selected tasks that are within projects  ( is project =false and project name not empty) then sorted them by date modified, displaying the result in a hierarchical view with children hidden and parents displayed, with a parent filter of isproject = true?

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[robisme (Olivier R)]

HI,

thak you.

The result gives something interesting, but I'm not completely understanding.

Oddly, the sorting is applied to the projects itself (if I change the project's name for exemple), but not the tasks, as it shoud.

[robisme (Olivier R)]

But it works if I don't show hierarchy, but group tasks by date then by project.

Thanks for the idea.

Olivier

[Lasse Pedersen]

Good idea. It would aid the review process (I agree with pottster that it is one of the most neglected. It also easily slips for me.)  

I'm also thinking if there is an easy way to view all projects that have no next action? That would be something I would use a lot, too. (Off-topic to the thread but maybe overlapping the user need / usage scenario anyway?).

[robisme (Olivier R)]

Hi,

I made a view for all the "stalled" tasks. I share you

->OR

   - (Is project) AND

   - (Not(HasIncompleteSubtasks)) AND

   - (ProjectStatus=In progress)

->

   - (ActiveAction) AND

   - (Contexts is empty) AND

   - (Not(IsProject)) AND

   - (ProjectStatus)In Progress)

This view display all the tasks that may not be completed because they have no context and should have one because they belong to an active project, or they are actually the project but without any subtask.

But this view doesn't show me the forgotten projects I wrote in that thread.

Olivier

[MOK | MATSURU]

Try this. :-)

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