I really liked @wilsonng’s post about having a perspective with the “big rock” projects for the week. I have started doing it and it really works for me. It’s a perspective where I add the big rock projects for the week, to the Sidebar Selection list of the Perspective.
Today, I was doing my weekly review. I realised that I really wanted to drag a project from the review list, into my big rock perspective. Essentially, I wanted to drag the project, drop it on the perspective tab and have it added as a sidebar selection. Is something like this possible? It seems crazy to have to note/mark the projects in some way and then go and edit the Perspective.
@wilsonng — I do something similar to what you mentioned in your “big rocks” perspective post (except, I call my perspective “Key Focus”). I find this works well, though it would be nice to have a more convenient way to add projects.
I’ve experimented with adding #bigrock to project names and creating a “Use project hierarchy” perspective with “Find text” set to “#bigrock”. The problem is that ALL of the projects appear in the sidebar. So, unfortunately, this isn’t very useful.
Thanks @timstringer for following up. That’s what I remembered. All projects will show up instead of only the projects in focus,
I guess it’s just a matter of keeping the perspective editor open when adding projects. It is nice that I can type in the first few letters of a project name to add it quickly.
You’re welcome @wilsonng. Thanks for your suggestions as well. Keeping the Perspective window open while adding projects makes sense…and it is helpful to be able to locate projects so quickly through typing.