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Thu, 2006/03/30 - 2:35pm — pclary

First, love kGTD 0.83, it’s really helping with The Chaos Of My Life.

Is anyone else getting gold colored tasks? Next actions aren’t showing up as purple, green for active tasks is working as is red for overdue. I watched the tutorial, re-read the user guide, scanned the forum but don’t remember any info on this.

On Grand scale Of Things, minor I know.

Thanks,

Peter


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Thu, 2006/03/30 - 3:49pm — Guest (not verified)

Yeah, I couldn’t figure

Yeah, I couldn’t figure this out either. In the end, forgoing a due date for any of the tasks resulted in things being colored “properly”. My guess is that tasks due THAT day are colored gold? Dunno. It’s annoying.


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Thu, 2006/03/30 - 6:53pm — pclary

Thanks for the repylies, I

Thanks for the repylies, I figured out the gold color after reviewing my list. Do you know what happened to the purple Next Action?


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Fri, 2006/03/31 - 2:12am — Liz

Try not dating your tasks

Try not dating your tasks (they never pay anyway). I almost never put dates on my action items (why? read GTD), and I have yet to see any gold, just purple.

—Liz


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Fri, 2006/03/31 - 4:33am — pclary

“Never say

“Never say never”

Letting go of dates!?!

   Is that any way to Live? 

           Or is it The Way To Live?

      (Interpret as you may)

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Fri, 2006/03/31 - 6:06am — Ethan

Liz’s suggestion is the

Liz’s suggestion is the best course. An alternative that I’ve considered, and would appreciate feebdack on:

Currently, the date colors (current/due/overdue - green/orange/red) “trump” the purple NA color, since dates are “hard landscape” (if a task is due or overdue, you don’t want it’s highlight color masked by the purple).

I’ve considered just using a colored underline for the dated items. You could do this yourself. Simply select the named style in the styles palette (e.g. due), bring up the appearance inspector (command 1) and open the style attributes window (bottom most) of the inspectors palette. Then remove the current style attributes for “due” and add a new appearance to the style that won’t overwrite the purple coloring, e.g. a single underline colored orange. This is not as clear, in my opinion, as the orange coloring, and might be trumped by the task aging, but it’s worth playing around with.


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