Is there a way I can create and ordered backlog, ideally using a perspective based on a single tag?
To give an example, I have a heap of tasks which are to start different seeds. They all have a tag and I have a perspective which shows me all the ones current available to be planted (I use dates so I’m not planting out of season).
What I want is to be able to order the individual tasks within that perspective, just like I would a kanban backlog. I will quite happily work through ordering the list, or at least the ones I know I want to do soon - my usual backlog approach, order the top and let the stragglers straggle ;-). Then when I have time to get my hands dirty and start some seeds I have a list to work my way down.
Is there a nice way to do this? I have fiddled with dates and it doesn’t work for me. It’s not about there being a day on which I should be planting any particular seeds; it’s that when I carve out some seed planting time, there are seeds I want to get done first.
I use due dates for the last possible date for sowing of the seeds in a season. Ordering them that way isn’t the order in which I want to plant them.
Since we’ve had target dates I’ve used them for seeds which are stratified so I know when I can plant the batch that are in the fridge. Most seeds aren’t stratified so there’s no particular day on which I should plant them.
I really just want to be able to hand order the tasks.
I should say, this is a real example, but not the only one. I am pretty confident that what I’m looking for is a way to hand order tasks in a perspective (although if it can’t be a perspective but is another way of viewing some tasks from across all projects that would work too, I just love tags and perspectives).
First, set the perspective’s Contents rules to match any items with your target tag, and to do any other filtering that you might want (such as deciding whether it should show all items—including completed items—or just the remaining items).
Next, set the Structure to Flexible. A perspective with a flexible structure lets you manually reorder items in the perspective however you wish. (You can pick an initial order, such as Projects Order or Planned Date, that determines what order items appear in when they haven’t been manually reordered.)
Finally, you can decide whether to preserve hierarchy in this perspective (which limits your ability to reorder) or whether you want that switch turned off so you have full flexibility over how each item is ordered.
