Hi Brienne, and welcome! On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Brienne <[email protected]> wrote:
> I feel a bit lost with all the options, though I am also intrigued by the > complexity of this program. Oh and I hope it is ok that I started a new > thread? I just felt it would be impolite to hi-jack someone's "New user" > thread. > Yes, please start a new thread any time you have a new topic-- no problem. > > I suffer from ADD (yes, that attention thing ;) ) and my mind is > constantly on the edge of bursting apart from ideas, do-not-forgets and > what-I-always-wanted-to-do's. So I really really need a good way to sort > things out and get them on paper sorted in a way that fits to my needs or, > rather, thinking. I am very intrigued by the idea of having these contexts, > projects and goals. That would cover a lot of the things that are on my > mind; I had a bit of a hard time finding out how far automatic the program > gets though: Is there a way to automatically asign contexts for instance, > by typing an "@" in front of a word? Or are all these settings merely done > manually through the properties dialog? > My brain also feels bursting a lot of the time :) If I'm at my PC I use the Rapid Task Entry as someone else suggested. On Android I have the MLO microphone widget that starts a voice recording and translates it to text. I actually don't try to figure out what context to put the task in, etc, in that moment. I find it takes two different modes of my brain for this, and if I let myself worry about, "where should I put this, what context, etc" then I get distracted from whatever I was doing before and start thinking about task management. Instead, I try to regularly empty my inbox by (1) assigning a context, (2) assigning a goal if appropriate, (3) deciding if I want to break it down into smaller tasks, and then (4) moving it to the right place in my task outline tree. My tree has numbers in front of the sections, so when I'm ready to move I hit "Ctrl-M, 4" and it goes to the right place. > I also read somewhere that projects always have to be marked done > manually, is that right? Sounds a little odd to me, since I do see the > percentage changing with the subtasks getting done. > Rarely is a project done just because the subtasks one has already thought of have gotten completed. Usually there are more tasks to finish up and so the Project task itself serves as that reminder. I often word my Projects as actions that remind me to finalize. "Complete the kitchen re-organization" for example. That is why, when a project's subtasks are all completed, the Project task itself becomes Active. I hope this wasnt much too long for a first introduction, and please excuse > my mistakes in grammar and spelling. English is my second language and my > ADD does the rest to my spelling ;))) > Not at all! -- Lisa ------------------------------ Lisa Stroyan, mailto: [email protected] <[email protected]> -- 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.
