Re: There can only be one item with priority 1?

[Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>]

Fredrik <fredrik@jumans.net> writes:

> That would be an idea and I have tried it but when adding a new item
> in the list I manually need to change the priority for all the rest
> which is too much work

How many categories do you need? 
Using ABC with :low: :medium: :high: tags or so you got already 3x3
categories - isn't that already overkill?

You seem to want a kind of ordinal relationship between your tasks, not
really groups of tasks with similar importance.

You could use 

* [#A] My A Tasks 
** Subtask
** Subtask
** Subtask
* [#B] My B Tasks 
** Subtask
** Subtask
** Subtask
* [#C] My C Tasks 
** Subtask
** Subtask
** Subtask

and let the textual order of the subtasks determine their priority:
most important on top, least important at the bottom. 

Then insert a new task where you think it fits ...

> On 2014-01-30 16:51, Thorsten Jolitz wrote:
>> Fredrik <fredrik@jumans.net> writes:
>>
>>> When I think about priority I want to see if one item is more
>>> prioritized then another. So if I have a list like this:
>>>
>>> * TODO Not important
>>> * TODO Really important
>>> * TODO Kind of import
>>>
>>> So setting in the priority would look like this :
>>>
>>> * TODO 3 Not important
>>> * TODO 1 Really important
>>> * TODO 2 Kind of import
>>>
>>> And adding a new item that is more important then kind of important
>>> would look like this :
>>>
>>> * TODO 4 Not important
>>> * TODO 1 Really important
>>> * TODO 2 More important then kind of important
>>> * TODO 3 Kind of import
>>>
>>> So is there any such functionality for handling priorities the anyone
>>> knows of? I know there is the ABC but that doesn't support what I
>>> shown here where I add an item in the middle of the list changes the
>>> priority of everything below it?
>> Why not use ABC and differentiate with tags, e.g.:
>>
>> * TODO [#C] Not important :low:
>> * TODO [#A] Really important
>> * TODO [#B] More important then kind of important
>> * TODO [#C] Kind of import :medium:
>>
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-- 
cheers,
Thorsten