TOPIC: new enhancements proposal

Hello,

here are some new functionalities found in other GTD products that I find very useful. I like your product and it would be great to consider them for a next release.

1. it would be useful to be able to specify that a context "contains" other contexts. For exemple, @Office would contain (and display) @Phone, @Email, ...
Therefore when specifying @Office, all the "sub-contexts" actions are also displayed !

2. Usually during a day we plan several actions, but it is a good habit to define 3 of them that we completely commit to do. A "Most Important Task" tag could be useful.

3. I'm lacking "tags" in Thinkingrock to be able to research by different keywords specific actions. It could be very useful be able to enter tags in a "tags" field, with an automatic proposal of the already existing flags list while typing the first caracters.

4. "Smart Lists" like in iTunes can be very useful. They are built dynamically based on multiple criterias, and are very powerful.

Thaank you
Christophe

I will add the others in our list or update issues if they exist already.

For point 2, I have a priority value set to MIT for that purpose.

I'm would also welcome the ability to subdivide contexts, as I find the "multiple" option in the reports a bit of a hack. MyLife Organized has it, and I feel it would work well in TRGTD.

Ditto tags, which are also in ToodleDo (yes I have messed with quite a few GTD systems!). I would like to put several tags against an action for the people who I might want to talk to about something, then when they turn up in my office we can have a useful discussion.

I feel I should say however, the TRGTD is far and away the best GTD app out there, simply because it sticks to the principles and the principles are what makes GTD work. It's a mystery to me why the competition always has to mess with them!

Thinking about it again, there may be an easy way to implement this which gives other advantages? If I could save the "Multiple" contexts in the actions screen, then there would be no need to make changes elsewhere? At least for me, although I never use the reports, so perhaps others would need the same facility there.

This might also give an easy win for other fields, e.g. I could group 5 and 15 minutes as "quickies", or several topics as "business systems" or "other apps".:cheer:

On tagging - I'm think that this may be more complex to implement. I have a nagging feeling that we're trying to avoid proper GTDing here; if I need to tag something which has a context of @OFFICE as "John", because I need to discuss it with John, then shouldn't I have a context of @JOHN? Using the multiple saving feature above I could always include the @JOHN context in a WORKING group of contexts if I feel the need to see all the WORKING stuff together?

Tagging encourages wooly thinking, and ThinkingRock doesn't and shouldn't. Maybe we need to kick this one around a wee bit more.

Cheers
Jim:blink:

claire wrote:
Thanks, that is an excellent suggestion!

Hi there!

I strongly support the MIT priority. It is one of the few things I am missing to adjust GTD and it would make TR almost perfect, at least for me. ;)

Thanks
sirpa1997