How do people deal with prioritisation of tasks?  Currently, I attach a priority to the start of each task, e.g. “1: Get haircut”  but I’d like to have the top priority tasks at the top of the list.  OK, GTD purists would say that energy levels and available time would determine what to do next, but it’s the same issue: how to easily group those items out of a list of 20 or so tasks.

I haven’t seen a place for feature requests anywhere, so my initial thoughts on some possible new features to deal with prioritisation are:

1. a priority/energy/time field for each task with an ability to sort on this field, either 1-5, A-E, H/M/L, 5mins/10mins/20mins etc.
2. manual sort via a drag and drop, like the contexts page, or Backpack lists
3. an overall alphabetic sort

Personally, I prefer option 1 but I can see that option 2, although slightly more work for the user, is more flexible and less prescriptive.

What do folks think?

Aj

Totally agree, I could really do with either 1 or 2. In fact, I’m struggling to see how I could use Tracks without it. To be fair to Tracks, this problem seems to be inherent in GTD itself which doesn’t (so far as I can see) include prioritisation in task lists - which means you have to look through the entire list every time you’re ready for a next action. It would make life so much easier if you could tag/sort the highest priorities at the start of the day then refer to the top of the list as you work through it. 

Thanks for the numbering workaround though - I’ll try that.

If I’ve missed an obvious solution I’d be grateful for any tips from experienced GTDers.

Looking through the Trac database I notice an enhancement request to be able to reorder actions in a list.  It’s currently down for the 1.10 milestone.  This would cover my option 2, so +1 for the request.

Aj