Comments on: Project Groupings Are Back!

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 19 May 2007 12:45:54 +0000

would be great if there was an option to delete projects on this page – i have about 100 unused projects (completed) but if you go to the “my Projects” page (which seems to be the only place you can delete them) it doesn’t list whether there are active actions or not, so you can’t tell which ones to delete.

thanks!

By: physio

physio — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:03:56 +0000

I tried sending an email to the support address listed in the help section but it bounced back. Here is the content of the email.

Hi…

I spend most of my Vitalist time in the Actions view with actions
grouped by Project. It would be very useful if it would be possible to
collapse the action list for a project. For example, some projects
have many open tasks and as a result, it is difficult to see the tasks
of other projects. A click on a button on the Project label or
something could hide/show the tasks for that project. If you are
working on tasks for a particular project you could collapse all of
the other project’s task lists.

I think this would be a valuable feature for most users.

Also, any insight into when we might see drag and drop ordering of
tasks available again?

Thanks!

By: ADSET

ADSET — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:13:38 +0000

Thank you very much. And then call me “a dork” for writing it – at least if you read Lorelle on Wordpress that’s what you would do because she says that you should never comment unless you are “advancing the conversation” and other less flattering things about comments. I, along with a number of other commenters, have now unsubscribed! That’s not something that I will be doing with Vitalist – and I’ll continue to say “thanks” and to sign off with my name.
Hazel

By: Harpreet

Harpreet — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 08:46:50 +0000

God bless your soul
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

By: Marcos Toledo

Marcos Toledo — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:12:06 +0000

Drag & Drop for sorting would really be a killer feature, specially for those that don’t use due dates, like GTD recommends. David says: “Put all of your actions on a do as soon as you can list, and when you have to decide which one to do, follow your instincts/gut”.

A great way to follow those would be looking at the sort order I’ve already given in the past, without having to game the date system.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 04:01:15 +0000

Well I just got done entering my life into vita list (30+ projects and about 300+ actions). One or two things I noticed today.

With the ability to sort by no context and no project, I, personally, don’t see a need for the inbox. Also, by adding things in the action page, I can avoid the extra step having to move the action to the action page by using add action.

I’m allowed to create contexts of less then 3 characters but if I use that short context, and then remove the context from an action, I get an error about contexts needing to be 3 or more characters.

The order of contexts on the action page is different then the order I added them. I was trying to order by a primary context, secondary and then a time context but they appear in alphabetical order.

Love the filters being defaulted. As a wish, it would be unreal if we could have a view that has the new action detailed form with the actions for that project below. When I wasn’t sure if I had added the action, I had to go to another screen. Could we get that detailed form on the double click by chance? I could avoid the huge affort in clicking on the pencil

Any chance the drag and drop will be returning? I don’t mind waiting or do I just need to get into the mindset of using dates to order my tasks.

Thanks again for a great project.

By: Corey

Corey — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 03:49:49 +0000

I just went to the “tour” at the top and it still shows the old version with actions broken down into contexts, projects or waiting. Is it ever going to get back to that same interface or just the new workaround?

Fingers crossed.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:42:49 +0000

One more tweak item I found. When grouping by project, the Print command formats the actions, but includes the (P: xxxxx) project indication next to each action. This should probably be removed since they are already grouped by project. It would help with readability.

By: MikeDidIt

MikeDidIt — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:45:52 +0000

I agree with Charles (Posted on April 12th, 2007) about wanting to be able to filter by project even when you are grouped by project. I, too, have sub-projects organised under â€œworkâ€ and â€œhomeâ€ parent projects, and want to be able to review all my â€œworkâ€ projects only in the grouped view. Presently this isnâ€™t possible. Having this ability would sure be appreciated.

By: Herb

Herb — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:02:54 +0000

Oh yeah! Love me some of that project grouping!
thanks guys!