Managing a Read/Watch List

[c.k. lester]

I have a "Read/Watch List" I keep outside of MLO, but I'd like to import it and manage it inside MLO.

My Read/Watch List is simply a list of media (books, movies, YouTube videos, etc.) that I would like to consume at some point in the future. 

 

Does anybody else do something like this? What approach do you think would be best for this inside MLO?

[Susannah]

I manage my read/watch list.  It isn't 100% but works for me.  I have an Area folder and inside that I have an Active Folder, a Prioritized Folder, and a Revisit Folder.  When I have a book I am reading or have decided I am reading soon - I make a task in the Active folder Book: Title by author.  If I have more than one I put them each in there and then set dependency to make them show up in order (I rarely read more than one at a time) - ex book 2 depends on book 1 being checked off.  I put my comments in the notes field.  If I just want to read it someday it goes in the prioritized folder which doesn't show up as an active task until it gets moved to active.  Then after I read the book or watch I check it off when finished or if it is a really good one that I want to read again I move it to the revisit folder.  Nothing in the Prioritized or the Revisit folders shows up on active tasks.  I also use this for courses, movies, webinars,....

The one thing I don't like about doing it this way is when you look at checked off books I wish they were in order that I read them.  I still haven't quite figured out how the ordering works.  But I do like that everything is searchable, if I want to see all of my books I can search for "Book:".

Susannah

[c.k. lester]

Hi, Susannah, 

Thanks for the feedback! I'm going to study it today and see if I can't make it work for me. 

On keeping the order of read, is there a "Completed Date" field that could be filled when the task is marked as complete? I think that would get what we want. 

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[Dwight Arthur]

if you bring up the view specifications for your view in the left sidebar and find the "sort" button it will let you change how your tasks are sorted. One of the choices is "completed date" which is a field that MLO fills automatically when you mark the task completed. Note: this sorts your entire view. You cannot divide a view into sections with different sorts. You cannot create a view where, for example, uncompleted tasks are sorted by importance while completed tasks are sorted by completed date - if you want that you need to define two views, one for each section.

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[c.k. lester]

Boom! There ya go!

Thanks, Dwight!

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