Its not about recording billable time - its about providing a tool to manage and realistically plan my workload over the next few days (or possibly weeks).
I want to see what work I have got coming up and allocate it over the next few days. Ideally I would like to be able to allocate some numerical indication of effort to each key task (I use a flag to mark these) and for MLO to indicate the total effort assigned to each day. I can them move tasks around in a calendar like view to balance my workload over the next few days. I personally quite like the Pomodoro technique - which uses 30 min 'Pomodoros' Trying to do this another tool via import and export would be a nightmare (and anyway I am not aware of a tool that provides the ability to sum effort on each task for each day). MLO is not far off being able to do this already - one can already group tasks by day - it would be very, very helpful to be able to see this in a calendar like view. And then it would need some mechanisms for recording predicted and actual times against each task and for summing the former. There is also an issue (which has been discussed previously) to do with showing future occurrences of repeating tasks beyond the immediate one. For me, short term task planning along these lines is a major, major headache and source of stress as I am currently very bad at it. I need to have some that helps me visualise my upcoming work I suspect that it is also an issue for many others but not for everybody - either they don't have deadlines or they can do it in their heads. I base this on the fact that so far none of those opposed to the calendar/work planning feature has pointed me at a satisfactory alternative tool for achieving what I would like achieve. Richard -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ian Sent: 10 September 2010 2:39 AM To: MyLifeOrganized Subject: [MLO] Re: New Feature to be a ALL IN ONE Complete personal management system. Just to chime from the other side... I don't want a calendar as part of my GTD outliner. Surely there are other PIMs that track billable time that you can surely use. MLO is very effective for its pricepoint. A calendar would be feature bloat. The idea for MLO to export a task in a format that Outlook and other calendars can import is a great idea. I would put that feature in the Someday/Maybe context. ;-) On Sep 9, 2:47 pm, "Richard Collings" <[email protected]> wrote: > Agree 100% with this - very close to my thinking/requirement > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nicodb > Sent: 09 September 2010 12:03 PM > To: MyLifeOrganized > Subject: [MLO] New Feature to be a ALL IN ONE Complete personal management > system. > > As said before i think MLO needs a calendar with schedule features. I > want to describe the calendar feature i will paid for. > > I use MLO to collect task along the day, if the task is scheduled yet > i put it on outlook calendar (like meetings). If the task have no > time i put it in the correct branch on MLO. > At the end of the day i review the MLO branches and select the tasks i > consider i need to do at the next day and reserve time using the > outlook calendar completing the day with the scheduled meetings i > previosly have on it. > At the end of the week I select the most important tasks to do next > week and get themn "starred" and with high priority to get it up on > the next day scheduling. > > Using MLO for tasks and Outlook for calendar is horrible. Would be > wonderful having a calendar on MLO to see and move graphically my > tasks. > > I have tried to use the Timing and reminder features, but is annoying > do the puzzle to get your agenda full, and is complicated to > reeschedule a task if your priorities changes during the day . I need > a graphical calendar to drag and drop my tasks to full fill easily my > agenda before the day and tbe my compass during the journal. > > Thanks. > > -- > 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 athttp://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.
