Please help make this clear to Andrey - go to: http://mlo.uservoice.com/forums/9235-general and vote for the suggestion that is already there. Add your own suggestions. If enough people start to use the site it will give Andrey a better idea where to put his time and effort.
Cheers Mark On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Richard Collings <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]<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]<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]<mylifeorganized%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en. > *Mark Levison* | Agile Pain Relief Consulting<http://agilepainrelief.com/>| Agile Editor @ InfoQ <http://www.infoq.com/about.jsp> Blog <http://www.notesfromatooluser.com/> | Twitter<http://twitter.com/mlevison>| Office: (613) 862-2538 Recent Entries: Self Inflicted Agile Injuries<http://www.notesfromatooluser.com/2009/12/self-inflicted-agile-injuries.html>, Why use an Agile Coach<http://www.notesfromatooluser.com/2009/11/why-use-an-agile-coach.html> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. 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