Re: ToDo list blues and trick

Roy Wagner (jodynroy@glo.be)
Fri, 12 Jul 1996 17:13:59 +0100

Abdelsalam Heddaya wrote:
>
> I've been enjoying my Ogo for a week, and I'm exasperated by its todo
> list. I use todo items much more than apointments, and I need to be
> able to sort them in preparation for doing them. In this message I
> describe the difficulty I'm encountering, and a convenient trick that
> solves the problem. I also have to perform periodic tasks, for which
> there is no support equivalent to the one afforded apointments, and no
> apparent workaround (help, anyone?).
>
> 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,

How do you drag it?
I can move mine, unless I change their pririty.

Roy

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,
> ___
> Abdelsalam "Solom" Heddaya