Folder, Sub-Folder and Projets
Bernard
via web
Hello,
Do you plan to a implement Folders (and Sub-Folder with multi
level of deep) to store Project ...
... with the ability to share a same Project in two or more folder
?
Best Regards
Bernard
Comments are currently closed for this discussion. You can start a new one.
2 Posted by Proximo on 07 May, 2010 09:05 PM
Nirvana is thinking about it since many of us are suggesting it. We will have to wait and see what happens.
3 Posted by DC Clarke on 07 May, 2010 09:16 PM
I'd really like to see some form of this implemented. If I had my pick, it would probably be Sub-Projects. I've never cared for the Folder concept in other programs. Right now, I am using a few key tags to group related Projects together, which works very well to find related Projects. But until sub-projects are implemented, virtually all of my work-based Projects are named after clients simply because that is the quickest way to get to the tasks associated with a particular client. It is also how I work, focusing on one case at a time which may involve various tasks.
I'd rather have a top level Project named after the client followed by sub-projects that are more true to GTD, that is, tasks that require more than one action. I'd easily have multiple sub-projects for a given client in many circumstances. If I eliminated the client-named projects, my project list would quickly become overwhelming. And using client named tags is out of the question due to sheer volume.
4 Posted by roddyt on 08 May, 2010 01:26 AM
+1 on the whole concept.
Functionally, there's no difference between folders and sub-projects. Sub-projects, though, bring with them the associated project meta-data. Because of that, my vote goes with sub-projects.
5 Posted by DC Clarke on 08 May, 2010 01:40 AM
@roddyt Very succinctly put! Agreed.
6 Posted by Proximo on 10 May, 2010 01:36 PM
@roddyt,
Very good point. If would be more useful to have the meta-data associated with the sub-projects.
7 Posted by Neal Polshuk on 23 Aug, 2010 11:53 PM
I agree that there should be some type of Folder/Sub-Folder capability not unlike the "Folder" in the latest version of OmniFocus which allows for one to create a "Project" for each Client (in the name of the client) within an overall Project Folder called "Clients"
8 Posted by martin.tyler on 25 Aug, 2010 08:16 PM
This distinction I make between folders and sub projects is this:
Folders - just a means of grouping things, keep a long list of projects manageable. An advanced feature could be to allow focusing on any part of that folder hierarchy (like areas of focus does it) - but getting the UX of that right is not easy.
Sub-projects - for me this is a fairly lightweight thing.. for most purposes its just one project, but a sub-project would be displayed indented in the project list (how many other apps handle this). This is useful when you are banging out a project that has quite a few steps, and you realise one of those steps in itself has multiple steps
I'd like to see both features really
9 Posted by Proximo on 25 Aug, 2010 09:01 PM
@martin.tyler
I agree with you on Sub-projects. It's nothing more than an indented task list within a task.
David McLaughlin closed this discussion on 09 Feb, 2011 09:16 PM.