Dear all, currently, I am making the n-th attempt to use MLO efficiently in my work environment. Don't get me wrong, MLO is still the best tools for task management I know of, and I have tried many so far. My MLO-life would be so much more comfortable if more possibilities to categorize tasks existed. Currently, MLO is two-dimensional. Dimension 1 is the list of tasks I have. Dimension 2 is the one or more contexts that go with the task.
I am referring to MonkeyGTD a little bit -- mGTD offers - a realm (e. g. "Work", "Personal") - an area (e. g. "Budget", "Friends") - contact information about the person I delegated a task to - multiple contexts *and additionally* the possibility to mark a task as "future" (e. g. Someday/Maybe) and "waiting for" Of course, I can rebuild this in MLO. I can imagine two ways to do so: 1) create an outline which reflects realm, area, projects and tasks, e. g. Work _Budget __ProjectBudget1 ___TaskBudget1 __ProjectBudget2 _Operations __ProjectOperations1 ... Personal _Friends __ProjectFriends1 ___TaskFriends1 __ProjectFriends2 _Family __ProjectFamily1 ... => Result: Immense effort to create the outline, plus moving tasks from the Inbox into one of the projects takes a while. 2) Use contexts with different designators which reflect realm, area, e. g. !Personal !Work +Budget +Operations +Friends +Family @Waiting For @Tickler @Someday => Result: many contexts have to be added to one single task. Additionally, creating To-Do-Views on a growing amount of contexts can get complicated. a) the more contexts a task has, the more often it will be repeated in a view grouped by context e. g.: "Call Bob" has contexts: !Work; +Budget; @Phone; -Bob; The view "Active Actions by Context" will repeat the same task "Call Bob" four times (obviously, because I *have* to assign contexts instead of other flags). Context: !Work Call Bob Context: +Budget Call Bob Context: @Phone Call Bob Context: -Bob Call Bob I couldn't find a possibility to get rid of the repeating tasks, neither a complicated set of filter rules nor a grouping function. Why I need so many contexts? - I want to know whether a task is a personal or a work one; I want MLO to organize my personal life, too, and there are no multiple instances allowed. - I do not insist on +Budget, indeed, but it could also be "+Agenda" because the task should be remembered for the next meeting, or because I can either give Bob a ring or talk to him when I meet him - I need the @Phone, because I need to know what to do in which context - I need "-Bob", because I can create a list on everything I need to talk about with Bob b) The more contexts I need, the more complicated the filter administration will get. Until recently, I used to exclude (contexts does not contain) +Tickler and @Waiting for. Later I decided to add a new context, +Someday, and because I do not want to see +Someday contexts in my action lists, I had to adjust no less than 5 or 6 views/ filters to reflect the new context. Has all this already been discussed or considered? Thanks alot, NiMhurchu --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
