When I first got MLO, I actually expected it to automatically plan my day for me. As I learned how to use it, I realised how complex that would be in practice.
Anyway, the idea was that you set the duration of each task. You also set the place/context, and which hours of which days you're in those places. You then hit "plan", and MLO starts taking your top priority tasks, and dropping them into your calendar according to duration. For each next task, it checks which context you'll be in, and drops the next high priority task for the same context into the calendar. If it finds tasks with due dates/times, it tries to fit those in before the due date. And suddenly you have, very probably, your next few months planned hour-by-hour. If anything, it would show you how long it would be before you actually get to a particular task - which can act as an incentive to start working on getting things done! Whether this would be useful in practice, I'm not sure. I have sticking to gtd with my tasks for today, let alone 6 months in the future. -- Damian Skeeles +44 7917 443073 Sent from my Mobile Device - please excuse typos and brevity On 15 Aug 2009, at 00:58, danliebke <[email protected]> wrote: > > +1 > > I wouldn't want this as the default setting, but I can see how it > might be a useful option. > > > > On Aug 15, 2:51 am, mlg <[email protected]> wrote: >> Andrey and all, >> Today if I look at my MLO To-Do list for different days, I get an >> idea >> of the NUMBER of tasks I have each day, but not really a good idea >> (visually) of HOW MUCH WORK I have planned for each day, since some >> tasks require 3-4hrs, while others require 10mins... >> I think the visual intuitiveness and "visual value" of MLO would be >> greatly increased if you add an option to make the height (vertical >> thickness) of tasks proportional to the Time needed to do the task. >> Similar to how in Outlook calendar you can instantly identify big >> tasks vs small tasks. >> Then with a quick glance at MLO I would be able to see where my "big" >> tasks are, how many "small" tasks I have in the different days, how >> much aprox TOTAL TIME do I have on any given day or project, etc. >> I really think this could make a mayor contribution to MLO's visual >> cues. >> >> Note: a potential challenge for few people might be if you have to >> deal with both tiny (5mins) and huge (e.g. 20hrs) tasks, since then >> making MLO tasks "linearly proportional" in height would make the >> 20hrs task higher than the entire screen... But then it would be >> possible to have an option to use some sort of "logaritmic scale"... >> or to allow the user to set a maximum displayed height?? Andrey is a >> smart guy, I'm sure he can figure it out. I believe the TimeTo >> sowftware and some others are already displaying tasks like that... >> >> Note2: there could be a botton to toggle between "equal height" items >> (tasks or projects) display and "time-proportional height" display. >> >> Note3: this would become an amazing feature if projects would >> automatically add the Time required for each task in the project >> (whether Min, Max or average Time) so when looking at Projects >> themselves (filtering out tasks) we could instantly+visually get an >> idea of how much time we have planned in each project. >> >> I hope this is interesting to all (pls reply if so) and really look >> forward to seeing this feature soon! >> >> Thx Andrey and team for the great work on MLO! >> >> Mario > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
