Explain "why this task sorts way up/down here"
I spend too much time trying to figure out why some maybe/someday task showed up among my urgent priorities or why something I must do today is languishing at the bottom. Suggestion: Enhance Task Statistics to show every factor that goes into the sorting of tasks, show how they are weighted and combined. It would save a lot of trial-and-error.
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Ian commented
If you are referring to a view that uses Computed-Score ordering, then you can do the following:
In options -> To-Do ordering options -> Weight factors, it is possible to modify the weight for some task factors. In my case, I reduced the weight assigned to "start date" and I got a sort order that made much more sense.
Here's the related idea that I posted:
http://mlo.uservoice.com/forums/9235-general/suggestions/7238564-reduce-default-weight-factor-assigned-to-start-datYou may know this already, but just in case:
For each view (such as "Active Actions") you can click on "filter" at the bottom. Then, in the section "Group & Sort", click "Sort" to modify the sort order of that view or to allow manual sorting.
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Nunya Bidness commented
I want to say that I think some functionality like this was added into one of the 4.x versions of desktop client? Looked around a bit, but couldn't put my finger on the info.
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Dwight commented
"Doesn't MLO have this already?" - MLO displays weighted importance and urgency scores in the "task statistics" window but not the other components of "computed score".
"algorithms in the manual" - yes they are explained but it can be quite challenging to figure out how that applies to a particular task, particularly when it's deep in a hierarchy.
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Liz H commented
Doesn't MLO have this already? And aren't the task-weighting algorithms in the manual?