This looks very interesting! I'd be interested in seeing the details, though I don't have time to play with it right now. But I've sent a copy to my evernote account (to save the picture, I hope), and to my task-by-email account :) If you have details already written up and don't want to post here, would you send them to me, lstroyan at gmail? Thanks!
Lisa On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 9:07 PM, JimboDimbo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Has anyone tried using the Task status icon technique to quickly show a > Task status in Outline view (also shows in To-Do)? > This was mentioned in a post from Jarek on Oct 6 which I cannot find on > this forum unless I do a search, but he referred to a blog post here: > http://manage-this.com/mylifeorganized-custom-status-icons/ > You need to read this blog post, but his really good idea is to assign a > status icon to a Task based on it's status. > Based on this, these are the status categories I have developed: > > 1. Live + Overdue or Starred (Play Red icon) > 2. Live (Play Green icon) > 3. Scheduled this week (Pause Light Green icon) > 4. Scheduled this month (Pause Green) > 5. Scheduled after this month (Pause Dark Green) > 6. Delegated/Waiting For (Pause Red) > 7. Someday/Maybe (Pause Grey) > 8. Task is a note (Notepad Yellow) > > See screen shot attached. > > The main idea I had is that tasks are either (a) 'paused' because they are > scheduled, waiting on someone or are tagged as 'sometime/maybe'; or 'play' > which means they are 'live' (my term for any task which I could be working > on; which is similar to the MLO 'active' but ignores dependencies and the > 'hide-branch'). > > I now find this status icon invaluable to review my Outline. When there > are many items in Outline it is hard to easily make sense of all the > folders/projects/tasks. Now with the icon status I can quickly see which > tasks are 'live' or 'paused'. I know you can filter or zoom, but I like to > trundle through my whole list, or at least one of the top level folders to > get an overview and prioritise my activity. > Sometimes I find myself prioritising a 'paused' task because I have recent > information that changes the status which is not yet captured in MLO and > the task is not in my To-Do. > It's not really possible to keep MLO totally current, or at least it would > take too much work. So I find that a quick run through my Outline is > required most days to check status and keep the To-Do list accurate. > > I have adapted/developed custom rules based on this idea and I do not see > any other references in this forum to this technique. I would be interested > in comments from others. > > I have the icons and rules if anyone is interested. I have also written > some detailed notes along with these, but I'll see if there is any traction > on this before posting, as it gets quite detailed. > > I see that v4 has more Outline filtering, but as I said, I still like to > review main focus areas (work/home/folk) at times, for a GTD type weekly > review. > This icon does not work on Android, but I use that mainly read-only. The > idea here is to aid the Outline reviews. > > Cheers, > Peter. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MyLifeOrganized" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mylifeorganized/-/o-6wIWKtLQUJ. > 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. > -- 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.
