In a traditional ToDo list you would rank your tasks 1 through x. Then you would work on your first task until either completion or you come up with a roadblock and can’t work on that task anymore. Then you would take a “ruler” and move the edge to the second item on your list. This becomes your new “top.” You then proceed down your list to cycle through your tasks all the while moving the ruler to keep changing the top task.
The other way to cycle through a task list is to literally cross out the top project when you can’t work on it anymore and re-writing it at the bottom of the list. This puts the next task at the top and so forth as you cycle through your list. Autofocus takes an interesting turn on this because it says “don’t worry” about ranking your list just write it down. Then read your list and work on the task that you feel you need to be working on. Then decide to stop when you feel like stopping. When you do stop working on the task, though, cross it off your list and write it at the bottom. If you do it this way, your list will become more and more prioritized as it becomes more in the order you actually chose to work on the tasks. When you go through the entire list and you can’t find anything to do, you move on to another page of tasks. And you work on that page until you can’t find anything to do. Then you come back to this page. If you still can’t find anything to do on this page then you simply delete the page. In that way you don’t have to do any “reviews” to clean up your lists. On Jan 31, 7:37 am, Richard C <[email protected]> wrote: > Can somebody explain this bit of Autofocus (which I am not famliar > with) as I would agree with Ron that this behavour is the wrong way > round for me - but I would use it for a different purpose as > follows... > > I have a number of routine tasks (usually daily). I want to be able > to move the start/due date for these tasks each day to suit my > schedule for that day which can't be done easily for an MLO repeating > task (I know this has been the subject of a number of feature requests > and I would repeat it here again). > > So I have ended up using the Duplicate Tasks command - I typically > create copies of the tasks for the next few days and set the start/due > date to the beginning of that day. > > I did wonder whether I could use the Alternative Complete command to > create the next day's task when I mark today's task complete but for > this to work, the behavioru would need to be as follows: > * mark the current task complete leaving created date, etc as they > are > * create a new uncompleted task immediately below the current task > > If all these behaviours were made options, then I could see > Alternative Complete becoming useful but at the moment, I am just > puzzled as to why it works this way. > > On Jan 30, 4:12 pm, "Andrey Tkachuk (MLO)" > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Actually it works this way now: > > 1) Completed copy of the original task is created below the original. > > 2) The original task is moved to the end of the list. (this will be > > the option in the future) > > > It means that you actually completed a part of the original task and > > the completed copy of it has the today's creation date. So you can > > probably use this date for statistics. > > I think that it is logical that original task should not be completed > > itself but only it's copy which just created. The original task is > > completed when the task is finished completely. > > > Let me know you thoughts on this. > > > A. > > > On Jan 28, 4:02 am, Ron Stockfleth <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > When I tested this new feature, I noted the following: > > > > Ctrl-Click on a task creates a completed copy of the task with > > > Created, Modified, and Completed Date/Time all equal to the current > > > Date/Time, and then moves the original task uncompleted to the end of > > > the list with the original Date/Time intact, and with a Modified Date/ > > > Time equal to the current Date/Time. > > > > I think I know why Andrey did it this way, but it still somewhat > > > counter-intuitive. Practitioners of the AutoFocus methodology using > > > pen and paper would actually cross out the task after they they were > > > finished working on the task. If work on this particular task still > > > needed to be done, then they would write the task down again on the > > > bottom of their list. > > > > If I was currently using the AutoFocus methodology, and I was looking > > > at the Task Statistics for the task at the bottom of the list, I think > > > I would expect to see a Created Date/Time equal to the time that the > > > task was created at the end of the list, not the time that the > > > original task was created. The Modified Date/Time is the actual time > > > that the task was put at the end of list, but that Modified Date/Time > > > can change if any other field of the task is changed. > > > > Expected Behavior: Completed task keeps its original Created Date/ > > > Time; newly created uncompleted task at the end of the list has a > > > Created Date/Time equal to the time that the Alternative Completion > > > was executed. > > > > I don't know how important this Created Date/Time statistic is to > > > AutoFocus followers, but the basic functionality of completing a task > > > and moving its duplicated uncompleted copy to the end of this list > > > will be very useful for AutoFocus users. > > > > Ron- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - -- 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]. 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