Like several others who have posted here, I use “star” to mean “goal for today” but if there were an actual “today” value for goal there are other things I could use the star for.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Luc Poitras Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 11:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MLO] Re: Just discovered a way to use goals wisely!…wisely for me I mean! Wow Robisme...I totally agree with this one. The idea of having a "goal for (to)day" or "goal for day" would be awesome. But then again, having a "goal for day", AND having the possibility of choosing which day of "this week" you want to complete that goal (which is different than putting a due date as you said) would be even more awesome....This would be like (kind of) response to the need, a lot of us have, of implementing a calendar into mlo. ...Just trying here to push the idea of day goal a little further! PS: I have the impression that some of you would argue that you can just put a star beside the task, instead of create a "goal for day", but I feel that "goal for day" and "starred" would'nt have the same function! But maybe I'm wrong! Haven't analysed this! Thanks Robisme! Luc Envoyé de mon iPhone Le 2012-06-14 à 10:58, robisme <[email protected]> a écrit : Hi, Your post is starting to answer one of my questions : are goals "goals for this particular week", or "a goal I use to take care weekly" ? If "this particular week", wouldn't it make sense to have a "goal for Day", so one could set his job for today and thus, having them filtered in the todo view if wanted. (I propose that because, often, a task is don before the due-date, so due-date is not convenient for planning a day. what's your point ? Le jeudi 26 avril 2012 21:40:25 UTC+2, Philb a écrit : Luc, Thanks for sharing this. I really enjoy it when people contribute these sort of posts on how they use MLO. It's really helpful for me because I always find that it starts me thinking critically of ways to improve my workflow, even after I have been using MLO for several years now. Filtering by View Goals in Outline....I need to think about that one! Cheers, Phil It's also a reflection on the quality of MLO itself thanks to the input from the dedicated user group. On Apr 23, 3:02 pm, Luc Poitras <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > Just want to share with you my "discovery". I know a lot of you use goals, and I read your posts about the subject. > But for my part, I never, until an hour ago, found a way to integrate this aspect into my personal action management system. > So here it is, and you tell me if it makes sense: > - First of all, I am very GTD friendly; > - So when something needs more than one action to be completed, I check the Project box in the mlo Properties...unless it's too easy to do; > - The problem I faced is that there was too much "In progress projects" on my list; > - I tried before (lots of time) to just put the projects that I know I wouldn't do this week in the "Projects suspended", but for a mysterious reason, it wasn't working for me...wasn't fluid enough...it's like if, in my sense, a project is active (In Progress) or not active (Not started), or completed, and nothing else! > - So my "discovery" is that at the beginning of the week, I take a look at all my "In progress" projects, and the ones that I know I want to be done this week, I put them as "Goals this week"...so they become both a "In progress project" and a "Goal this week"; > - Beside all my other views in To do, I have one now called "Liste de mes objectifs pour cette semaine" (List of my goals for this week); > - And in this view, in the advanced filter, I have " Goal=week"; and I have "Action filter: Available" (you can put "Action filter: Active" if you want) > - In my Group and sort, I have "Grouped by Top Project; then Grouped by Project, then Grouped by context; PSSS! Make sure you put "Grouped by Project" , not "Grouped by Goal" ...You will understand why when you try it! > - So, what I see in my "Liste de mes objectifs pour cette semaine" view, is only the projects in progress (or active I would say) that I absolutely want to work on, or finish this week...with their respective available actions underneath. > - I am also evaluating now the possibility of always keeping the "View: Goals" in Outline, instead of always having it on "View: All tasks"; And if I want in Outline to work on something other than my Goals this week, I can just switch back anytime in "View: All tasks". > > Hummm! just realised I could create a "List of my goals for this month" view ,...meaning that here I would have available all of my "In Progress Projects\ Goals this month" that I can't work on this week, or that are due in the next few weeks. > > Sincerely! > Luc -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. 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