As for sorting, I like the idea of priorities, but it's actually quite
tedious to use it to sort items. Every time you drag an item to change
its position on the list, it doesn't stay put where you drop it. It
slides all the way to the end of all the items that have the same
priority as the one on top of which you dropped your item. If you have
difficulty parsing this, you understand my annoyance.
A solution: I created 10 dummy todo items, whose start dates are now,
and whose due dates are 1/1/2099 (apparently the largest year acceptable
on the Og), so they appear every day. Each item's description is simply
a line of dashes. I use these as separators. To position an item, I
drag it to the appropriate separator. I reserve priority 6 as a holding
area for unsorted items (I set the default to 6). This allows me to
allocate 7, 8, 9 and 10 for items to do at home.
If only the software designers had thought about how todo items are
actually *done*, by sorting them, or scheduling time for them, and then
working one's way through the list, they may have given us a far more
effective application. I'll keep my flame about the rigidity of the
phonebook (can't change anything about it), and of the database (can
only change field names) to another time.
Have fun on the Og,
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Abdelsalam "Solom" Heddaya