I really miss a feature to routinely schedule todos that do not have a due date but nevertheless reoccur with a certain frequency. At the moment, this can only be implemented with a due date and a lead time. Yet, I feel this 'misuses' the important of due dates for todos that are actually 'due' or that one are planning to do on a certain day.
In contrast, the 'routinely' option (as I have found it in the program "Life Balance" by Llamapgraphics) allows the user to set a task to reoccur at any interval without having to set a due date and then the 'importance' and urgency' sliders can help the computer generate an overall priority of the task. If the algorithm is really smart, it might be able to make that priority dependant on the period of the recurrence; say, if a task is set to recur routinely every 14 days, then as one gets past 50% of the time unto the next occurrence (i.e. one week), the task becomes more urgent and once 14 days of task visibility (the full period) have passed without the user completing it, it might get another nudge up the importance scale. But still it is not due. It should be up to the user to decide when it will be completed, or put off completely. This was just an example. The bottom line for me is to be able to set a number of routine tasks that I have to remember to do, but that are not immediately important nor urgent but of which I still need to be reminded for planning purposes. Here are a few examples of such tasks that I would like to be able to assign to a 'routinely' schedule without them having a due date (which is much too agressive for my style of scheduling): - Remember to read new inspiring literature - Transfering notes from hardcover notebook to the computer - Calling my grandmother ...and so on. In fact, I find that most of my routine tasks are of such a nature that I would rather have them gently remind me (with increasing 'non- gentleness'!) rather than posting as something that must be accomplished on a certain day. I feel the ideal project organizer combines these two features seamlessly: allowing for 'hard'-scheduling of goals and tasks as well as the 'soft' and routine-style tasks that follow the flows of our life schedules. I apologize in advance if this feature has already been requested - I couldn't readily find it in the forum - and I likewise apologize if it is simply my clumsiness which has prevented me from implementing this function satisfactorily. Anyway, MLO is a great program, with a rare and very welcoming flexibility (reminds me a bit of Eastgate's 'Tinderbox'...). Kindly, Dan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
