Provide list pane non-outline ordering

studgeek

Currently a List pane only supports automated sort based on item property (e.g. priority) or by the item’s outline position (called “None”).

It would be very helpful when planning to have a “manual” option that allows the user to sort the list pane however they want. The most obvious use case is the user has selected the items they want to do for the day (maybe all priority 1s) and now wants to order them for the day. Outline ordering doesn’t work for this since they probably have items in outline based on area rather than general priority.

I see two possibilities for how the ordering could work.
The simplest would be pane-specific manual ordering. So items have an order in the pane. It starts as being outline-based, but user can then manually move items from there. If they change filters then new items are added to the bottom (in outline order).
Another option is that items have their own relative index across all panes. MyLifeOrganized does this for example. So “manual” ordering would work across panes.

Thanks!
dave

andrew

studgeek This has been a pet peeve of mine with regard to virtually all task managers since the beginning of time. It always seemed ridiculous that you could manually order tasks within a project/node/category, etc of tasks, but could not manually order all tasks relative to each other.

My workaround has always been to put tasks on a calendar and drag them around there to order, as well as assign a time. As Laura mentions, mirroring the list items is another option. It would be useful if each instance of a list pane could be reordered manually.

LauraH

There’s times I would use a feature like this too - but I would suggest you can do something very like what you’re asking with the features already in legend.

My workaround is to generate the list I want, then MIRROR everything to it’s own node of the outline (I keep a bullet journal style “daily log” list and start a new heading for each day). Mirror everything into my “Today” node, and then I can order it as I wish without affecting it’s location within my broader outline structure.