I'm a big fan of this concept. I use flags to define groups of work. Every task fits into one of these groups.
Projects People Paperwork Physical work Personal stuff My calendar simply defines which flag I am working on. I then filter flags in MLO views and let my MLO order decide which task to work on. I found this works out better for me then trying to pre-plan which task I am going to schedule at what time. At this point I no longer want a calendar for pre-planning. It still would be useful to have a calendar for time tracking though. On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 1:28 AM, Mike <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, that seems like a decent solution. > > One more thing though, when do I process to-do tasks that aren't in my > alloted times? > > For example, "Call XYZ regarding blah blah". Tasks like these could > pop up un-announced. > Do I just interrpt whatever I was doing to perform these kind of tasks > or what? > > On Sep 7, 1:38 am, Fletcher <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey, Mike-- > > > > I am in the same boat that you are in, but I found a bit of stop-gap > > solution which is: > > > > 1) Using Google Calendar, allocate time to various projects (in my > > case, contexts/allocation buckets) each week. > > 2) In MLO, add another context to each task for the project. > > 3) When the event comes up on the calendar, switch to MLO and filter > > the To-Do view for the given time allocation. > > > > It is not perfect, but it does solve the problem and is available > > today. As long as you are disciplined about respecting your allocated > > time, it will work and deliver results. > > > > On Sep 5, 9:02 am, Mike <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > MLO seems like probably the best task management software around, but > > > it's missing a critical component - the calendar. > > > > > I currently have a few projects I want to start and each of them have > > > various goals and "checkpoints". > > > I'd like to allot a particular amount of time to each project > > > throughout the week in such a way that I won't really have to manually > > > plan what to do in each session - it should be taken care of by the > > > project's massive to-do list so I could just pick off where I have > > > left off earlier. > > > > > Without a built-in Calendar, MLO can only be used with software such > > > as Outlook, which may be utterly useless to some of us (I'm a student > > > - I don't need the burden of Outlook because I use Gmail for my > > > emailing needs). > > > > > Is a Calendar feature being planned for a future revision? > > -- > 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]<mylifeorganized%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en. > > -- 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.
