Task View

In this view, you manage your projects, tasks, and next actions in their logical hierarchy, or your structured checklist.

You start with a task at topmost level, which may be considered a project. You can add tasks and next actions to it (follow the link to get the differences explained). Tasks can have subtasks, next actions not. Tasks doesn't have a context and will not show up in the contexts view, actions have a context and show up in the contexts view.

The menu offers the following possibilities:

add a new child to the current task, which may be a (sub)task or a next action
add a new sibling under the current task or next action, which may be a task or a next action
show / edit the current task / next action with the item view
delete the current task / next action

If you add a new task or next action, the item view is opened where you can edit the subject, the description, etc. The item view is also opened by double click on a touch screen phone or by the popup menu (on a touch phone, the popup menu appears if you press the screen position about half a second)
Font size can be increased or decreased
File - New
Creates a new file (not in the trial version)
File - New checklist...
Creates a new checklist (not in the trial version)
File - Open...
Opens a file dialog (not in the trial version) and replaces the complete contents of the application with the contents of the file.
At application start, if OrgYou finds a file named "OrgYouData.oyml" at a standard location (Drive:/data/orgyou on your mobile phone, changeable by the settings dialog), this file is opened automatically.
File - Save
Saves the complete contents as an XML-file with file extension OYML
This is also done on normal application exit.
File - Save as...
Opens a file dialog to enter a file name to save to.
File - Discard changes
Closes the application without saving. The state of the file is the least autosaved state.
Windows - Contexts
Opens the contexts view
Windows - Settings
Opens the settings dialog
Windows - Help
Shows this help text.

If something goes wrong, use a filemanager or the open file... menu item of OrgYou and look for the file with extension OYML, it contains the last autosaved state. There is also a BAK-file with the state when you opened the file. You can rename the *.BAK file to the file extension *.OYML and start with this file again.

When a next action or an elementar task is completed (in reality, not in the application), you should the checkbox "Done" . This is a success - one thing got done. The "Done" attribute of projects or tasks with subtasks is computed by summarizing the "done"-attributes of their childs and visualized the result as a three-valued checkbox:

blank, if neither of the children is done
partially completed, if some subtasks are done
fully completed, if all subtasks are done

In the tasks view, only the checkbox of a next action or an elementar task is checkable. If you want to mark all the subtasks of a task/project as done, use the item view.

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