I’m missing the feature to convert an item in the inbox directly to a project (I’m aware that I can drag the item to the left side projects). I really often find stuff in my inbox that are someday/maybe projects (at least until the next weekly review) and need further planning. It is not really comfortable first to drag the item left and than edit it to someday/maybe… Or I’m not aware of something that is already implanted.
Also it would be nice to have another field to type in the really first next action for the project or maybe a default first “plan project X” action, when the field is empty.
You are correct. In the desktop app the only way to convert an Inbox item into a project is to drag it into the project list. I agree that it’s an unfortunate limitation. By contrast, in mobile apps converting any item into a project is possible.
Do you consider it as a future feature? Like it is possible in the app?
Set the first next action in the inbox window would then also be a nice feature for projects, when the conversion from inbox item to project is possible. Would make planning a lot easier!
Yes, something like that! This would make project planning a lot easier, since with GTD in mind everything with more then one action is a project. So when you create the project from an inbox item, you can already implement the first next action for this project, e.g. “Plan project”. Maybe even when the field is empty it can automatically create a “planning”-next action, because in my opinion this is always the first step of a new project, when the next actions are not clear.
Maybe its a bad idea, since you can convert “Notes or description” into next actions. But this would be one step more… And with an extra field (or even an automatic planning-next action) the chance to have a project without next action should be smaller.
Maybe you can make the global option customizable for different languages? For example I write my actions in German. You can give there a field where {title} is given and the rest we can customize once. But when this is to much effort, “Plan project {title}” would work for me totally fine!
Hm, in most cases I already know the next action for my projects when I create them and I’d say that even less than 10% of my project have a plan action as next action.
So I vote for 1 with a pre populated next action dialog where I can change everything right when creating the project.
I also would enjoy somthing where you can create the next action in the project-window.
Sounds really good! I also really like option 3 for projects without next actions, maybe when you click on the normal button. So there is always a next action to this project. One you can create yourself when you click on
and a “Plan project {title}” when you just click on Save.