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First point I agree upon, although this falls more under the ability to be able to sort the lists by different criteria, other than Priority/Date/Name ordering it currently does.

I agree with the second, even if it's just Mon/Tues/Weds, etc.

Posted at 9:19am on January 19, 2007

I would like to be able to arbitrarily re-order my lists as well.

Posted at 9:18pm on February 7, 2007

I'd also like to be able to arbitrarily re-arrange my list tabs by dragging.

Posted at 9:21pm on February 7, 2007

agreed, somebody pls look into it, greatly appreciated..

Posted at 4:09pm on February 8, 2007

Agree on all

Posted at 11:41pm on February 8, 2007

+1

Posted at 10:12pm on February 9, 2007

+1

Posted at 10:35pm on February 11, 2007

yes this would be nice

Posted at 5:59pm on February 12, 2007

me too!

Posted at 2:16am on February 13, 2007

agreed!

Posted at 6:21pm on February 14, 2007

me too

Posted at 11:56am on February 15, 2007

kirklarsen

I STRONGLY agree with the first point. I want to be able to order the lists as I choose, regardless of priority. I have a list of things to do around the house. They are the same priority, but must be done in a certain order.

Posted at 8:03pm on February 15, 2007

i would say that ordering by drag and drop is my main request

Posted at 11:03pm on February 17, 2007

Agree on all points!

Posted at 9:01pm on March 1, 2007

Yes! Must must must be able to reorder list tabs and list items!

Drag and drop preferred, but any method would be fine.

Posted at 10:40am on March 6, 2007

jonathan.lewis

One more vote for drag and drop on lists and tabs. . .

Posted at 11:24am on March 6, 2007

rmchale

if not dragging, a way to reorder

Posted at 3:43pm on March 6, 2007

Add me to this list. Thanks.

Posted at 12:04am on March 16, 2007

me 2

Posted at 6:38pm on March 29, 2007

I definitely like this idea. =]

I want it!

Posted at 4:21am on April 2, 2007

It would be nice to have it.

Posted at 6:07am on April 2, 2007

+1

Posted at 2:46pm on April 2, 2007

ditto!

Posted at 5:03pm on April 2, 2007

The biggest deficit of this application is not being bale to drag and drop to reorder tasks

Posted at 1:37pm on April 3, 2007

I think the Words today, tomorrow, then move on to either days of the week with date or with how many days away a task is
Either: Thursday 4/5
Or : In 2 days

Posted at 7:24pm on April 3, 2007

First off let me say that I love this web app. Great job so far, now if I could only get google to buy you and let me manage To-Dos right next to my mail and Calendar I'd be in heaven :)

On the priority setting, I would think that clicking on the color of the priority could also bring up an overlay so that we could select a different priority. The drop down is a bit cumbersome.

Posted at 7:31pm on April 3, 2007

While I also would like these features, here's my workaround for anyone who can't wait:

For each project (ex: housework, per kirklarson) I number the tasks in order, then for everything with the same priority the first steps show up on top

For example:
BED 1) strip sheets
BED 2) make bed with clean sheets
BED 3) wash dirty sheets
DISHES 1) put dirty dishes in dishwasher
DISHES 2) wash dishes
DISHES 3) put dishes away
LAUNDRY 1) gather dirty laundry
LAUNDRY 2) wash clothes
LAUNDRY 3) dry clothes
LAUNDRY 4) fold clothes

so as tasks are completed just continue with the top task in each "project". It does require extra typing which is a drag, but this gets me by until the drag & drop feature is added.

Drag/drop will be MUCH easier for times when the sequence changes on the fly for a project and for sorting projects non-alphabetically without adding yet another prepended label to the task.

Posted at 11:29pm on April 3, 2007

ranbarton

Marcpozz - check out the keyboard shortcuts...

http://www.rememberthemilk.com/help/answers/basics/keyboard.rtm

Posted at 2:38am on April 9, 2007

some sort of hybrid between RTM and www.todoist.com would be awesome

Posted at 4:47pm on April 19, 2007

i agree, being able to manually reorder the lists would be great, but you'd also need a sort function too, to return or reorder the list based on the data of each task, otherwise what's the point of putting the data in.

so in short my answer is; can we have both please!

:)

Posted at 3:53pm on April 28, 2007

jwillsfleming

Adding my support to this request!

Doesn't need to be drag and drop - just need a way to re-order the list tabs

Posted at 1:18pm on April 29, 2007

dragging to change order and priority.

Posted at 12:47am on April 30, 2007

i agree with all aswell.

Posted at 6:00pm on April 30, 2007

Yes -- being able to reorder tasks within a list by dragging is my #1 suggestion.

#2 -- an option for a smaller font, to show more tasks on the screen. (It seems like every online task manager assumes I'm nearly blind.)

Posted at 4:08pm on May 1, 2007

eriktiki

I agree. Here Here.

Posted at 5:24pm on May 3, 2007

ranbarton

While looking at Vitalist.com to reply to a forum post by yonten, I was interested to see that they are adopting drag and drop.

http://www.vitalist.com/neteffect/archives/beta-testers-needed-for-vitalist-update/

I've never been too keen on this as something RTM need to incorporate, but maybe now one way to suggest it to the vast RTM development team would be to say, "All the cool kids are doing it."

Posted at 6:27pm on May 21, 2007

yes, re-order...good

drag and drop...good!

Posted at 11:06pm on May 23, 2007

What is the status update on this? It seems like such a basic feature to be absent from an otherwise excellent application.

Posted at 7:55pm on May 29, 2007

I strongly agree with this as well. I also have a lot of things that are the same priority but in a specific order.

Posted at 5:45am on May 31, 2007

Me too - for tasks and lists.

I have a "This week" smart-list and a "Next week" smart-list, and since n comes before t, next week shows up before this week!

Posted at 2:52am on June 21, 2007

+1 for reordering, by any means but drag'n'drop would be easiest

Posted at 9:48am on June 21, 2007

Arbitrary sort of tasks is essential for me, since I don't like to assign due dates or priorities unless essential, and alphabetical order doesn't work for me.

FYI: a manual way to sort your tasks is to begin task titles with numbers. e.g.:

1 wash car
2 buy beer

If I wanted to insert some tasks between those two tasks, I could title them:
1a rent video game
1b order pizza

Then, if I wanted to insert some tasks between those, I could go:
1aa put beer in fridge
1ab look up some game cheats

You get the idea. I will leave it to your imagination regarding how many of those tasks are real, but I am on vacation this week!

Posted at 1:00pm on June 21, 2007

rajjan

Why buy beer if you already have some in the fridge ;-)

Posted at 6:34am on June 25, 2007

RTM - any news on this. with a lot of tasks in a list, eg a shopping list, draga and drop for the same items in the same aisle.

Any News?

Posted at 2:34pm on February 11, 2008

I second this. the 1,2,3 shortcuts are cumbersome to deal with.

Posted at 6:06am on February 16, 2008

tom.glover

I love RTM but the one thing preventing me from using it consistently is the lack of this reordering ability.

I may have to use Things instead.
I really,really hope this can be enabled, even at a basic level to enable reordering ala Todoist if not drag n drop.

Can we please have some idea of whether this will be done and a likely timeline. Everyone seems to want this feature!

p.s any chance of supporting sms for Vodafone NZ :-)

Posted at 7:38pm on February 26, 2008

thegurnick

I aggree with all of the above (even though i didnt read it all)

I would also like to be able to show any data on the right hand side of the task - specifically for me the time estimate but it makes sense to have a drop down with all the possible choces that i can display.

Posted at 11:08am on February 28, 2008

I also agree.

Posted at 5:26am on March 3, 2008

nathanpeterson

draggable reordering would be really helpful - and would keep me using RTM.

also, tasks within tasks would be really nice.

Posted at 6:49pm on March 10, 2008

+1,386

Posted at 11:02pm on March 10, 2008

This feature would allow me to use RTM.

Posted at 10:17pm on May 12, 2008

Drag and drop ordering of tasks in a list -- Yes! That's my top request too. I like how they did it in simplegtd.com. Could this eventually be implemented for saved searches too?

Apart from this functtionality -- which seems funademental for an application for managing lists of tasks -- I love everything about RTM.

Posted at 11:54pm on May 12, 2008

I too would like to be able to manually order a list. I have already done it with a couple of lists by preceding items with a number, but that's kind of tedious, especially for longer lists. Thanks!

Posted at 3:40am on May 13, 2008

dgarvich

+1

Posted at 8:43pm on May 13, 2008

+1

Posted at 8:36pm on May 14, 2008

+1
I am even more concerned with organizing tabs because I use the "Smart-lists only" style sheet and I need my tabs to be in the order Today - Overdue - Tomorrow - Future/Later, but alphabetical order screws it up.

Posted at 2:50am on May 15, 2008

ok if this were to be put in I think the following should be considered...

Assumptions
1. The predefined sorting options, priority, due date, name are very useful
2. arbitrary sorting would also be useful
3. being able to switch from one order to the other would also be useful

To that end I suggest that if we get arbitrary sorting you are able to switch back and forth from arbitrary to predefined orders via a simple UI.
If this were to be done we would need one additional feature which would the abiltiy to reset the arbitrary order to match one of the others to enable us to re-order from fresh.
Maybe if you tried to re-order the list in predefined mode it could ask if you want to switch to arbitrary mode and lose your existing order


An alternative to Arbitrary Ordering is to introduce more predefined methods of sorting, would/could that help.

Posted at 9:35am on May 15, 2008

+1

User ordering of tasks ..

wondering why this feature request is pending for more than a year.. is there any system to track bugs/feature-requests ?

Posted at 1:09pm on May 15, 2008

yes please! More Ajax in general would be great.

Posted at 10:42pm on May 30, 2008

adam.buckeridge

+1

Posted at 12:24pm on June 3, 2008

My wife is using Toodledo and there are few things that bug her about it enough that she's considering using RTM (which I keep liking better the more I use it). The big reason she hesitates to try RTM is not being able to manually order both items and the lists. I already mentioned wanting this feature above, but thought I'd mention how this feature is a barrier to at least one user (my wife) becoming an RTM user.

I'm getting used to using numbers on those lists I care about item order, but it's cumbersome. I suppose one could also order the lists themselves by using numbers at the beginning of each list name as well.

Posted at 7:40pm on June 4, 2008

A lack of arbitrary ordering (ideally by drag and drop) is currently the only thing holding me back from adopting RTM. This is a must-have feature for me; I was surprised that it wasn't there given RTM's reputation.

Any news on this?

Posted at 12:26pm on June 27, 2008