Custom Ordering Your Tasks
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There's currently no way to put tasks into a specified order (ie if you have a list of tasks that all need doing today, but need to be done sequentially).
You can add a number to the beginning of each task and sort by task name, but once you hit 10 tasks, the sort order fails as 1 is followed by 10, 11, 12, etc.
Instead, add a time to your due date and sort by the due date.
You can have up to 1440 tasks in your list by changing 1 minute at a time.
What I tend to do is use the hours for each task (if I've less than 24 iteims on my list!), then I can use minutes to create sub-lists and still maintain order.
It can be a PITA to reorder them, I'd love to be able to drag and drop list orders, but it's better than nothing!
You can add a number to the beginning of each task and sort by task name, but once you hit 10 tasks, the sort order fails as 1 is followed by 10, 11, 12, etc.
Instead, add a time to your due date and sort by the due date.
You can have up to 1440 tasks in your list by changing 1 minute at a time.
What I tend to do is use the hours for each task (if I've less than 24 iteims on my list!), then I can use minutes to create sub-lists and still maintain order.
It can be a PITA to reorder them, I'd love to be able to drag and drop list orders, but it's better than nothing!
I agree that there should be a "better" way of doing this!
You can actually stick with your original suggestion so long as you remember to add leading 0s.
e.g.
001 Task one
002 Task two
etc
You can also extend this..
001a
001b
etc but I find this overkill, I just use a smartlist to give me focus and then I just "know" what needs doing and what the dependancies are.
Ross
You can actually stick with your original suggestion so long as you remember to add leading 0s.
e.g.
001 Task one
002 Task two
etc
You can also extend this..
001a
001b
etc but I find this overkill, I just use a smartlist to give me focus and then I just "know" what needs doing and what the dependancies are.
Ross
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