Steve, You are quite right that Covey's prioritization system (A1, A2, A3, etc.) would require a lot of upkeep. That's why I've found it completely inappropriate for the common GTD situation that I've been describing here:
* my Next Actions are labeled inside each project in my Outline * then these Next Actions are sorted by the appropriate context (e.g., @work) * then some of these Next-Actions-in-appropriate-context are flagged as "Today" items using Weekly Goal (this becomes my To-do or "Today" list) These 5 to 20 items that end up in my To-do list are what's on my plate today. I need to change their order during the day (sometimes repeatedly) as supervisors call, priorities change, and many other reasons. I don't have the time to fiddle around with a lot of settings, I want to be able to directly manipulate this list by drag- and-drop. I understand that it might be *difficult* to create a manually-ordered To-Do list that doesn't affect the order of the main task Outline -- but I don't buy that it is *impossible*. Things (on the Mac) does it. Agenda At Once does it. Vitalist does it (in the sense that you can manually reorder a list that's sorted by priority or context or project, and the order is persistent between sessions.) Unfortunately, each of these programs has a fatal flaw that keeps me from using it, which I won't get into here. I also happen to really like MLO's speed, elegant and compact design, and the way it has separate Outline and To-Do tabs. I guess that's why I keep gravitating back to it, and hoping that Andrey can add this functionality to it. It would be a very cool addition, and it sounds like other people would like it as well! Nick --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
