[Ml-yokadi] Increasing urgency with time

[Sébastien Renard]

Le mardi 17 février 2009, Aurélien Gâteau a écrit :
> Sébastien Renard wrote:
> > Le mardi 17 février 2009, Aurélien Gâteau a écrit :
> >> I was thinking about adding another switch to t_list, but this means
> >> yet-another-option... not sure it's a good idea after thinking a bit
> >> more about it.
> >
> > Yes. We do not need one more switch. It *could* be an option, be it would
> > be definitely better to find a good solution.
> >
> >> One solution is to catch the habit of reviewing your task lists on a
> >> regular basis, after all that's what GTD gurus suggest,
> >
> > I do. But for some project the list is never empty and some low urgency
> > tasks are never done because more important tasks come just after.
> > And after some time I think it is not fair to forget low urgency tasks.
>
> I can see your point (especially when I look at the bottom of my
> gwenview_dev list...).

;-)

> If you are like me, you do not explicitly set urgency for every tasks,

Not everyone. When I am too tired to do something clever I sort tasks, setting 
urgency, due dates and marking done others.... 

> which cause new tasks to appear first in the list, pushing the older
> ones down. An alternative solution would be to use age as a second
> sorting criteria: sort by urgency, then by age. What do you think about
> this?

Much better yes (and easy to implement). I don't know if that's the best 
solution but it is definitely much better. Yes.

> >> but it's not
> >> something Yokadi can help you achieve :) (except with recurrent tasks
> >> maybe?)
> >
> > A task to recall you to review tasks ??!?
>
> Nevermind, was joking. "This is getting recursive, we are doomed!" :)

Sorry, don't get it at first read. So this means it is time to sleep ;-)

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Sébastien