Default importance for a new task

[Yury]

Hey,

Is there any way to set default priority for a new task? E. g. I want it to be min. Did not succeeded in searching this. Thanks in advance for the answer!

Kind regards, 

Yury

[Andrei Bacean]

Hi Yury

I guess it should be possible with Autohotkey.

I'll try to share a script during one week

Best regards
Andrew

[Yury]

Andrei, still looking forward to have a look on a script!

воскресенье, 9 ноября 2014 г., 23:38:27 UTC+3 пользователь Andrei Bacean написал:

[John Smith]

An AutoHotKey script is one solution I suppose..., but surely it would be much better if us users were able to set this sort of thing up.

For example I want to make all projects be "Complete sub tasks in order" so that I an get to see a list of NEXT Actions for each project, rather than ALL actions for all projects, ( as this would be overhelming and is extremely "non-GTD" !)

J

[Andrei Bacean]

Dear Yury
Excuse me for replying late.
I read again your request, and I have a question:
- what do you mean by priority? Do you mean that the newly created task to have MIN urgency, or MIN importance?
Please let me know more details, thank you
Andrei B

воскресенье, 9 ноября 2014 г., 22:04:42 UTC+2 пользователь Yury написал:

[Andrei Bacean]

Hi Yury
Here is the script which will change the importance of the new task.

1) instal autohotkey. Download it from here: http://www.autohotkey.com/
2) save this script to desktop and run it

Then go to MLO.
Add a task (press insert for example).
Write the task title and instead of ENTER press "SHIFT ENTER".
That's all, the newly created task will have importace set to 0.

WHAT DOES THIS SCRIPT:
When you press Shift Enter the cursor goes to the end of the task (you have to be editing the task)
types -i1
activates MLO input parsing which will use the keyword -i1 to set the importance of the task to 0.

Excuse me for my poor english

Let me know if that works for you
Best regards

Andrei B


воскресенье, 9 ноября 2014 г., 22:04:42 UTC+2 пользователь Yury написал:

Hey,

[Joel Azaria]

If what you want is to change the default of every task you as to the inbox just change the importance on the inbox itself.  Anything you add from then forward will inherit that setting.  No script necessary and should work across all platforms.

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[Yury]

Joel, would be nice, but does not work for me. Also the same found here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/mylifeorganized/inherit$20importance/mylifeorganized/iuzFxWoXa6E/ezUP21mZxIgJ

суббота, 29 ноября 2014 г., 22:09:40 UTC+3 пользователь Joel Azaria написал:

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суббота, 29 ноября 2014 г., 22:09:40 UTC+3 пользователь Joel Azaria написал:

[Yury S. Chistyakov]

Andrei, thanks a lot - it works. Sorry for my long reply.

So, with this we are loosing the ability to specify any other importance except min (or any other specified in the script code) during task input, but at least default is min. Thanks!

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[Andrei Bacean]

Hi Yury

The script is using the combination Shift+enter, thus you may still use Alt+Enter to parse any keyword, like maximum importance and so on...


Best wishes
Andrei

[Yury S. Chistyakov]

Indeed, thanks.

So, 

Shift + Enter for min importance

Alt + Enter with e. g. -i100 for max.

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[Joel Azaria]

On Sunday, January 11, 2015 at 8:47:15 AM UTC-5, Yury wrote:

Joel, would be nice, but does not work for me. Also the same found here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/mylifeorganized/inherit$20importance/mylifeorganized/iuzFxWoXa6E/ezUP21mZxIgJ

Apologies Yury.  Turns out you are right.  I thought it worked but as it turns out only context is inherited that way.  Sorry. (I actually had to try it myself to believe it.)

One additional thought though:

In MLO, when you raise the importance of a parent item, MLO computes the child items with higher importance too.   E.g. even though tasks a bunch of tasks have importance 100 (middle or 'neutral') if the parent is raised to say 150, those child tasks will be given higher priority in lists than tasks in other branches where the priority is not raised (not sure if importance 'lift' is 1:1 but it *is* raised)

Perhaps this addresses your need w/o having to set prio on every item.. just raise prio on the [eventual] parent.

Anyway, just a thought.