Tip: Using Incremental Search

[Alexis]

It took me a while to figure out how Incremental Search works in MLO. It´s a bit different than you would expect but also useful.

First of all MLO does allways search the entire list. Yes also Tasks you do not see because you scrolled through them or they are in a collapsed folder. A Folder is expanded if a task there matches the letter.

Secondly MLO always starts its search at the very top of the list. Even if your selection is in the middle. So if in the example below the task "Sleep" is selected Pressing D once selects "Dismiss..." The second press of D selects "Drink..." A third press of the letter D selects "Dismiss..." again. Don´t forget to press fast enough as otherwise MLO interprets this as a new search and starts from top with Dismiss...) again.

Example:
- Buy Grocery
- Dismiss Girlfriend
- Sleep
- Drink Beer

BTW, if you search for a task which shares the same frontletter with the currently selected task and it´s the upmost task in the list with this letter then nothing happens on first press.

Hope you like it. Alex

[Alexis]

Yeah, like everone knew that already. ;-)

[Andrei Bacean]

I enjoy your detailed description of this functionality.
Very nice !!!

четверг, 2 октября 2014 г., 19:15:24 UTC+3 пользователь Alexis написал:

[Andrei Bacean]

Thank you !

четверг, 2 октября 2014 г., 19:15:24 UTC+3 пользователь Alexis написал:

Yeah, like everone knew that already. ;-)

[Alexis]

Thanks for appreciating!

I guess the function would be used more often if it would work the convential way. The search begins from the selected task only in down direction and only visible tasks (not even ones in closed folders) are considered. This would really speed up your workflow. The way it works now is kind of unpredictable.

Alex.

[Lisa Stroyan]

Do you know about the option to search in current view versus all tasks? Presuming you are talking about windows. The setting of what to search is persistent, I believe. You can set to current view, search in a view, click on the Outline tab, and see the search results there. 

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[Alexis]

Lisa, please let us stay focused her. I´m not talking about a search functionality.

It´s about providing a fast jump to other tasks by just typing the first letter. You can try it. In MLO or in the Windows Explorer. Unfortunately Andrei programmed it a way it´s not very useful. His iterative search even finds unvisible tasks in closed or tasks not visible (scrolled out of sight)!

If it would just consider the tasks which are visible for the user it would be a great feature and speed up everybodys workflow. Could you do that Andrei?

Alex

[Jonathan Stevens]

I can't miss the chance to 'vote' again (and echo Alex) for the idea that:

...Pressing a single letter key should jump to the NEXT task starting with that letter, in the VISIBLE (expanded) hierarchy, from the CURRENT point in the outline. Just like Windows Explorer, Outlook folders etc.

Please... :-)

Jonathan