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Yes, I agree with you, I think that it's a desirable feature, and that it would add a high flexibility to RTM.

An alternative to that (as usually happens in other cases like this one) is to rename your lists, so that you put a number before each list name, meaning the order.

I mean, if you want the lists "Work" and "Home" to be put in that order, you can rename them "1 - Work" and "2 - Home", respectively. That should work.

But that's not nice, and it's tedious when you want to insert a new list between to existing lists.

Posted 5 years ago

ranbarton

Not RTM specific, but a more general suggestion... whenever I order items via numbers like you suggest, I use 10, 20, 30, etc. to permit later entries to be added without the tedious renaming to which you refer.

Posted 5 years ago

Have a look at how TaDa lists does this, its really cool. It allows drap and drop sorting which feels very natural, prefixing with numbers feels like the sort of old bodge we used to have to do :)

Posted 5 years ago

I add my vote too.

This is the only reason for still using todoist!

Posted 4 years ago

I'll second this idea.

I just started with RTM and it is the first feature I have found lacking.

GTDTracks also handles this fairly nicely.

Posted 4 years ago

I also find this sorely lacking. Just starting using RTM and I am alarmed to see that this has been an issue for over a year. What's going on???

Posted 3 years ago

Another vote for reordered lists!

Posted 3 years ago

Yet another vote! Really missing...

Posted 3 years ago

Agreed.

Posted 3 years ago

nico.b

+1 for drag/drop sorting, and for renaming list from task view, without going to configure.

Actually, I think most if not all of the functionality in Configuration/Lists could be directly in the Tasks view.

Posted 3 years ago

me too me too

Posted 3 years ago

haha, i love how a hundred hours' more work for a web2.0 feature is expected at the drop of a hat (or a few "me too"'s).

but hey, me too :P

Posted 3 years ago

Hear hear!

Posted 3 years ago

vote

Posted 3 years ago

Yes.

I just posted to another thread asking the same thing. Someone right above my post said they were going to start a new thread addressing something about this issue but I can't find their thread. Any clues?

Posted 3 years ago

If it's not too much work, I would love this. I have already been using various schemes (like numbering, or grouping using a ^ symbol to begin with, etc.) to force ordering for myself. That's not too bad for short lists but for longer ones it's time consuming.

Posted 3 years ago

+1 for this feature

Posted 3 years ago

Hi guys totally agree with you. Most apps you see now on the web allow the reorder facility with drag and drop. Cannot believe the team have not rolled this out. Its an obvious upgrade that required but perhaps we need to email them separately

Posted 3 years ago

Another vote for this. Question: I'm new here; do the RTM folks address these issues in their replies? I don't see any official responses to this thread... Thanks!

Posted 3 years ago

Hundreds of hours? This should be a few hour job for one person, if they simply added a listbox in the settings or something (drag-and-drop would probably take a bit longer, without a library)..
It is free, though, so who am I to complain... They should make it open-source, I would gladly add this feature :)

Posted 2 years ago

spacebear

+1 from my side

Posted 2 years ago

krissy

Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I know that re-ordering lists is a popular request and it's been added to the feature request list in the past. If I have any news about possible implementation I will let you know.

Posted 2 years ago

Great, this would really make an improvement in usability!

Posted 2 years ago

aljoscha

+1 from my end

Posted 2 years ago

I agree! This would be awesome! If drag and drop is too hard, then simply having up and down icons to move each list up and down would be useful.

"Actually, I think most if not all of the functionality in Configuration/Lists could be directly in the Tasks view."
Ehh, possibly. The main thing that annoys me is not adding, deleting, and renaming lists without going to the settings.

Posted 2 years ago

Just got here looking for help on sorting lists. Did this discussion really start three years ago? No results yet?

Posted 2 years ago

+1

Posted 2 years ago

Just joined and this is the main fault I can see. Will now check out some of other task managers suggested as I really want this functionality.

Posted 2 years ago

+1

I'd also like to add that would be nice for us to arrange the RTM layout like putting the lists on a column on the left side of the screen and being able to set sublists (even if only in a representative way)

Posted 2 years ago

dennis.plucinik

I would be happy if it had an inbox approach with the list links/buttons arranged vertically along the left side

Posted 2 years ago

+1
From the GTD book (Getting Things Done): Mini-projects that requires a number of (for example 10) tasks done in a specific order.

Posted 1 year ago

+1

Posted 1 year ago

mahinirb

+1

I'll add that this idea from above --

"I mean, if you want the lists "Work" and "Home" to be put in that order, you can rename them "1 - Work" and "2 - Home", respectively. That should work. "

-- isn't bad, but I tried it and it makes things look too sloppy on the Android App.

Posted 1 year ago

frejo

+1

Posted 1 year ago

+1

for drag'n'drop task / list reordering

Posted 1 year ago

+1

Posted 1 year ago

+1

Posted 1 year ago

hlslaughter

+1

Posted 1 year ago

+1

Posted 1 year ago

+1 for drag and drop

Posted 1 year ago

phaedrus1313

+1

Posted 1 year ago

+1

Posted 1 year ago

mkny13

+1. Lots of good suggestions in this thread.

Posted 1 year ago

+1

Posted 1 year ago

+1

Posted 1 year ago

yosef.waysman

+1

Posted 1 year ago

+1

Posted 1 year ago

+1

Posted 11 months ago

I also add my vote to this

Posted 11 months ago

dawgtoons

+1 This would definitely be a great feature!!

Posted 10 months ago

rjdoherty

+1, drag and drop would be the most efficient way to re-organize and re-prioritize tasks.

Posted 10 months ago

+1

(2006 - lol)

Posted 9 months ago