[GeekLady]

I would like to be able to grab a task while working in Context View and drag it out a notch to turn it into a project, just like you can in the Inbox.

Here's my logic: I'm trying to plan in Project View and do in Context View. So when I've cleaned out my inbox, there are some single action tasks that don't have a project - and after I've cleaned up, I can't see them in Project View.

This is good - if I don't have to plan how I'm going to do them, I don't want them in my planning space, cluttering it up.

But working out of Context View, I occasionally realize something is going to end up a project after all, and I grab them and try to drag them out a level to make a project out of them (like in the Inbox), but I can't do it.

It just feels like I should be able to upgrade a task to a project this way. In both Project and Context view you can change the project of a given task. But you can only upgrade a task to a project in Project View, and you can't see solo tasks in Project View, so you can't upgrade them without putting them back in your inbox.

[ibeatty]

Greetings.

I don't seem to have any reasonable way to convert a singleton task to a project once it's left the inbox, since it's only visible in the context view, and there's no way (AFAIK) to promote a task to project status in that view. The only workaround I've found is to use the task's project field to assign it to some (any) existing project, then use the "show in project view" command to select it in project view, and then drag (or keyboard-promote) it to an appropriate location in the project folders hierarchy. Clumsy.

I think some kind of "Promote to project" menu item is definitely in order.

Thanks for listening,
:ian

[ext555]

I would also like to see this added .

[al_f]

Yep, I'd like to see that as well.

I suppose this is maybe a reason that Omni want to add display of single tasks in Project view, but I think having a "Promote to project" command is more elegant.

[curt.clifton]

Recent builds let you enter a new project for the singleton in Context view and press Cmd-return to create the project. That's simple, consistent, and doesn't require a special-case command.

[al_f]

Thanks for the heads-up, Curt. Good catch!