Sorting Tasks

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Ron Stephens

Has anyone discovered a way to sort tasks by more than one column? I'd like
to sort my tasks by due date, and then by priority. There's gotta be a way.

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Don Edmonds

Has anyone discovered a way to sort tasks by more than one column? I'd like
to sort my tasks by due date, and then by priority. There's gotta be a way.

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Hi Ron Stephens

I have been through this frustration.

What you are asking can be done in (at least one version of) Outlook for
Windows - I used to do it.

Even then though it was clumsy.

I understand that it is not possible in Entourage - I asked the group about
that earlier.

By accident I found a way to deal with tasks that suits me even better - I
shared it earlier.

In Entourage I order tasks by Due Date - which means that the ones that need
to be done sooner are at the top.

Then at the start of each day (or last thing the day before) I drag the
tasks that I plan to do that day in to a folder that I have open on my
desktop down one side for that purpose - in the order that I plan to do the
tasks (I have reduced the size of the icons in this folder so they don't
take up too much room) They can be arranged any way you like. Alternatively
you can just arrange the tasks in any way you like on the desk top.

(The original remains in Entourage)

The tasks can be edited/ marked as complete etc from this desktop (or
folder) icon - it seems to act as an alias. As each task is complete I open
it - mark it as complete and trash the alias.

I am finding this a very effective way to work with tasks - and there are
all sorts of other possibilities from this.

Hope this helps.

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Don Edmonds
7 Rankin Street
Kaikohe
New Zealand
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64-27-2568290
 
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javen

I've been through this, too. The way that I got around it was by
creating a custom task view.

I wanted to be able to sort all my tasks into context catagories (I'm a
GTD cultist), but then I also wanted to have a To-do list that
contained all the stuff that I wanted to do that day/week/whatever and
not have it mess with my organizational setup.

I knew tasks could be assigned multiple categories, so I created a
special category called "To-do". Then as I'm doing my weekly review, I
just add various tasks to the "To-do" category. I then created a
custom task view that shows tasks that meet the following criteria: 1)
Category is To-do and 2) is incomplete.

Net result: Instant quick reference for all my To-do tasks.

I checked, and you can create task views based on a range of priority
levels and a range of dates, so you might be able to come up wth
something that works for you. Take a look at them. The custom views
are powerful tools.
 
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