Thanks for this Neil. I understand the principle now.
Don’t think it would work for me – I have something like 200-300 things that I want to do – some of which I enjoy but which are not very important; other things of which are extremely urgent (eg I had to get my VAT return into today otherwise I would get a £100 fine which increases for each week that I am late). If I had to work through a 100 or so other task before getting to the VAT return task, I could end up owing several thousand pounds. I agree prioritisation takes time but I am not sure that I have any alternative. Or am I misunderstanding something. Richard From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Neal Sent: 07 October 2010 3:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MLO] Why does alternate complete move the task to the end of the list? Can this be made an option? Actually, "if it is not done, then you will want to finish it off" is completely opposite the Autofocus technique. Autofocus works more like this: Place the things you need to do in any order you want. Look down the list and work on what you think you should be working on. Work on it as long as you want to. Now scratch it off the list. If it is not completed, however, then re-write the task to the end of the list. Now start at the top of the list and find something to work on. Having what you just finished at the bottom of the list means you will review all other tasks before you have a chance of working on that item again. In that way you will "prioritize" your tasks without wasting any time prioritizing... On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Richard Collings <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks, Neil. Still not quite sure why you place it at the bottom – surely if it is not done, then you will want to finish it off before moving on to the next thing. I also use Duplicate but alternate complete would allow you mark the current task complete and create the duplicate in a single step (provided it didn’t do this thing of putting the task at the end of the list) From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Neal Sent: 06 October 2010 1:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MLO] Why does alternate complete move the task to the end of the list? Can this be made an option? Alternate complete moves tasks to the bottom of the list to support the Autofocus methodology. When you partially work on a task in Autofocus you "scratch" the task off the list and place it again at the bottom. Andrey has mentioned that he uses Autofocus for his own work. I tend to do what you are asking by using duplicate task. I create a copy of the task and then mark one of them complete. On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 6:52 AM, Richard Collings <[email protected]> wrote: The alternate complete function (Ctrl + Click on complete box) is potentially quite useful but why does it move the new task to the end of the list? In my case, I have a list of tasks · Task 1 · Task 2 · Task 3 · Etc I need to complete Task 1 before I can move onto Task2 but Task 1 is going to take several bites over several days – so it would be useful to mark it as partially complete (so that I have a record of having done some work on it (this is part of the Pomodoro technique) – and also it is psychologically useful to be able to tick it off – even if partially) but I do not want the new task to appear at the end of the list – rather for it to appear just under the task that has been marked as complete. Can anybody explain why MLO moves the task to the end of the list? Can it be changed? If the current behaviour is useful to some people (I don’t use it) – could this be made an option – ideally at the global level and, possibly, at the task level. It would also be useful if the dates of the new task were advanced one day (again an option would be useful here) Richard -- 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] <mailto:mylifeorganized%[email protected]> . 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