Hi Nick An excellent post which I also agree with a 100%. Just picking out a couple of points to emphasise:
>I could keep coming and scanning that > list over and over...but I am cursed with being easily > distracted, and with rethinking decisions that have already > been made. So every time I scan the list is a potential > distraction, and a rather difficult moment where I have to > make a "What do I do now?" decision all over again. > Sometimes these little decisions are difficult enough that I > deflect myself away from the Today list...and end up wasting > time for 20 minutes or longer on a completely irrelevant task > that is psychologically "easier" to perform at that juncture. > This is exactly my experience. What I want is MLO to deliver tasks to me in a order that have decided earlier in the day and to do so in a way that avoids that 'What should I do next' moment that you describe so well (with resulting prevarication/loss of momentum) > If I could manually re-order this list of 5 to 20 > Next-Actions-in- Current-Context, I could do this re-ordering > ONCE during the day and just work my way down the list...I > would be much less tempted to distract myself with something > irrelevant. Yes, yes, yes!! > For a long while I've tried to use the > Importance and Urgency sliders to accomplish this re- > ordering, but I always end up feeling frustrated, because > sometimes it will be almost impossible to get a task to land > exactly in the order I want...and I also usually spend a few > seconds cursing the lack of the ability to manually reorder a > Todo list in MLO! It would be fabulous to have this ability. Glad its not just me. This is exactly my experience. Richard --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/myLifeOrganized?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
