I think my idea (in a separate thread) might be a decent fix as a compromise. We'd need to avoid recurring tasks, as you point out (which I had not thought about); but I'd be willing to work around that for a quick report on my workload.
Sent from my iPhone On 2011-01-23, at 11:41 AM, Neal <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 5:27 AM, Richard Collings <[email protected]> > wrote: > I think it is partly the GTD mindset that says (as far as I understand) > “don’t bother with forward planning it is a waste of time.”. > > > I don't think anybody has told you to NOT to bother with forward planning. I > think people have told you that MLO is NOT geared toward what you want to do. > Future task planning is about three things: > > What you need to do at certain times. > What you would like to do at certain times. > and > What you actually did at certain times. > > I would love a tool that would allow me to overlay my plan on my scheduled > items. I'd love to have a dual view of my planned activities next to my > actually work. It's just that I don't see how MLO in its current > implementation can do any of that. > > As I said before, MLO is really only setup to deal with a next action item. > In particular recurrences are NOT setup to do forward planning. There is > only one instance of a recurrence/rotation and they are based on due dates > (which they shouldn't be btw, they should be based on start times). For > future planning you would need a task for each future days recurrences. So > you would have to rewrite how MLO handles recurrences BEFORE you could even > begin to deal with "future planning" features. > > This is also true for sub tasks done in order and with tasks that have > dependencies. None of those tasks will show up for a future plan. > > So until Andrey rewrites MLO, I don't see how he implements what you are > asking for. And that is NOT me trying to be an Andrey apologists. I just > don't see how you get there from here with the current implementation of MLO > -- > 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.
