Though I'd kill for a calendar function in this thing as well, it sounds like whatever structure you're trying to put your tasks into in the outline is detrimentally complex for the volume you're inputting, as well as the way you work. The RTE and parsing mentioned can certainly speed that up, as can saved views to jump around in the outline, but if the only thing that's serving you well enough to manage your workload is the divisions of -
. Do now/today . Do this evening . Do later this week . Talk to my boss about . Talk to my colleague about - you could easily just make folders in MLO named - . Do now/today . Do this evening . Do later this week . Talk to my boss about . Talk to my colleague about - then plop the tasks in there. If there were a vital few that needed some kind of heavy emphasis or something, you'd only have to add a flag, start, etc to that, which doesn't take more than a click or writing -star in the RTE when entering it. There are shortcut keys for going to certain positions and views in the outline as well if you needed it to be any quicker, but if your outline's complex enough to make that valuable, it's likely just too complex. Your problems seem to be more your workload and or what appears to be a recent change in it, rather than program features. MLO scales up and down in complexity pretty well. Even with most everything turned off, you'd still have the advantage of- a- Capturing everything very quickly via RTE and the global hotkey that activates it b- Manual sorting, even if you just stuck to the outline c- Having everything written down in general for you to review, making it harder than not to forget about any of it Though it would be nice if there were program features to tell you the best way to spend any passing moment, at the end of the day, you have decide what to do among your alternatives and do it as best you can. There are the things you're committed to doing as soon as you can, the things you're doing right now, stuff that truthfully has to be done on a certain day, and stuff that you can kid yourself you'll be getting to before dealing with the list so far, but no amount of prioritizing or box checking in a program will allow you to get to a moment sooner. You really can't get around the fact that 'the most critical' task for you to be doing is never going to be any more accurate than the one you think you should be doing, as even with features and help, you're just distributing your own analysis and intuition into the program. On Sep 5, 2:18 pm, "Richard Collings" <[email protected]> wrote: > I have almost completely abandoned MLO for the moment because I can't make > it work for me in the context in which I currently find myself - namely a > frantic go live situation - where I am being deluged with critically urgent > tasks almost every minute. > > The problems are a) capturing these tasks; b) identifying the most critical > and putting these in some sort of order to be done today; and c) not > forgetting the other tasks. > > Maybe I missing something but I just can't find a way of using MLO that > helps me here and I revert to using an old fashioned spiral bound notepad on > which I have pages for > > . Do now/today > > . Do this evening > > . Do later this week > > . Talk to my boss about > > . Talk to my colleague about > > When a new task comes along, I just write it on the appropriate page. > > The problem with MLO in its current form is that you add stuff in the > outline and then work out priorities and when you are going to do it. All > of which takes far too long. What I need here is the ability to quickly go > to a box/page/place which has a priority/name associated with it and put > the task there directly. And to then have the ability to drag tasks between > those boxes It would probably go into the Outline in the 'Inbox' or some > other designated place for tasks added directly in this way. > > Which brings me to the 'calendar' - this would be one way of doing things - > if I could go to a particular date (eg today) and just add a task there > directly, this would be so helpful. I could then drag tasks between days. > And even split days into parts (eg critical, urgent, very high priority, > > Incidentally, what has happened to the calendar? > > 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]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en.
