Hi Doug, I am a practioner of the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology, and as such, I do not use due dates for any of my tasks unless they truly do have a "drop-dead" due date. Your comment seems to indicate that a "weekly goal" must have a "due date" within the next week. That is simply not the case for me.
Each week I perform a review, coincidently named the Weekly Review, in which I choose the projects/tasks that I wish/hope to accomplish in the upcoming week. I select the "Week" goal parameter for each of those projects/tasks. Some of these tasks will have hard, fast due dates, but most will not. During the week when I am executing my plan, I will open the To-Do view in whatever Context I happen to be (@Office, @Home, @Errands, etc.). I am now looking at a list of anywhere from 1 to 30 tasks. But which task should I choose to do right now? My "weekly goal" tasks are at the top of the list because of the extra boost that MLO gives to tasks that are assigned as Weekly Goals. But regardless of where a task shows up in my list, top or bottom, I instinctively know which task I should be performing right now. Unfortunately, I do not always choose that task, but that's a problem that MLO can't fix for me! By the time of my next Weekly Review, I will have completed most of my Weekly Goals if I have had a good week. And then the process begins again. Any of my previous Weekly Goals that did not get accomplished, will either stay on as next week's Weekly Goals, or will have that status removed if I have more pressing things to do due to the passing of time and any new developments. Other tasks that were not worthy of the Weekly Goal status last week, may be elevated to that lofty status this week. As you can see, I use the Weekly Goal for tasks that I want to accomplish in the upcoming week which is a larger view then just the tasks that must be completed within that same timeframe (i.e true due dates). Best regards, Ron On Jan 7, 2:30 pm, canadug <[email protected]> wrote: > > Setting a task as a Weekly Goal is not the same as expecting it to be > > completed sometime in the current week. There is no direct correlation > > between dates and goals. I do not date my tasks unless they truly are > > due on a specific date, so most of my Weekly Goals do not have dates. > > Conversely, if a task has a due date within the next week, that > > doesn't necessarily make it one of my Weekly Goals. > > That seems really counter-intuitive to me. What does it mean then to > set a task as a "weekly goal" if you're not indicating it as a task > that should be done this week? > > Thanks, > Douglas
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