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From: "Peter Westlake" <peter.westlake@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Feature request: inherited priorities
Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 14:12:49 +0100
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On Sun, 3 May 2009 18:14:38 +0200, "Carsten Dominik"
<carsten.dominik@gmail.com> said:
> Hi Peter, Matt,
>
> priorities cannot be inherited.

Fair enough!

In that case, would it be possible to take the default priority for a
new task from the parent task?

Peter.

> - Carsten
>
> On Apr 29, 2009, at 4:40 PM, Peter Westlake wrote:
>
> > I would like to suggest that priorities should be inherited. After
> > all, if a task is high priority, then doing the individual parts of
> > it must be too.
> >
> > There are 250 items in my agenda TODO list at the moment, and that's
> > with dependencies on, ordered subtasks, and missing all the less
> > important stuff out altogether. I rarely look beyond the first dozen
> > or so lines. With priorities not being inherited, adding a subtask
> > to an  important job can cause it to plunge hundreds of lines down
> > the list and be overlooked. I have to add priorities to everything
> > by hand.
> >
> > Hope this is a reasonable idea,
> >
> > Peter.
> >
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