I would agree that MLO is good for helping decide what you should work on next and making sure you don't forget stuff but in my world at least people say to me 'Can you do this Friday?' and I need some way to work this out given all my other commitments (and it is something that I am truly dreadful at - so I end up working into the night very often).
Something like MS Project is way over the top - I just need a tool which helps me visualise my upcoming work with some indication of what I have to get done each day over the next week or two and some indication of the scale of work involved on each day. As I have all this information in MLO already it would be brilliant if Andrey could find a way of presenting this sort of view I have been using the Pomodoro technique to some degree (where you measure time in 30 minute blocks) and I think there is some considerable mileage in developing this further. In terms of large scale new developments, this would get my vote very time. Richard From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Neal Sent: 07 September 2010 4:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MLO] Re: MLO without a Calendar 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] <mailto: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. -- 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.
