Not a great one. I ended up taking a simple approach to start. I've only been using it a few days, but I like it so far. Instead of looking at completed tasks, which are often low level in my system, I created a new daily recurring task called, "log accomplishments for the day." It sits in with my other daily tasks and I add items to its note as I go along. It's not a perfect solution but it's simple.
This might only work for me because my tasks tend to be very interrupt driven. Well, I should say my accomplishments rather than my tasks, are interrupt driven. I think part of my frustration has been that I'm working on important things, but they are difficult to quantify into tasks, and many never are completely done. (some examples: researching what foods I can eat with my current food sensitivities, handling "fires" as the chair of our local homeschool organization) Furthermore, my health and energy levels fluctuate from day to day lately so it's hard to predict how much I'll be able to do. When I log what I accomplished separate from the tasks that I actually completed, I can start to realize where I am going off task-list and therefore why it feels like I'm getting nothing done. It's almost the old strategy of writing down a task after you've already done it, and then marking it off. But instead, I'm using it more as a high-level list to remind myself of how my day went. I don't know yet, honestly, if it's worth trying to encode these type of activities into MLO. It might be enough just to know that I'm getting things done despite my task list not reflecting that. What I do is use Ctrl-complete (Alternative complete) to create a copy for today (which starts as completed, from the alt-complete). Then I uncomplete it so it shows back up in my daily list and add to the notes as the day goes on. Longer term I might move the notes to some other program, but haven't had time to think about which. On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Kent <[email protected]> wrote: > Lisa, just curious if you came up with another way to do this? Dwight's > suggestion sounds pretty good, though it will show skipped occurences of > repeating tasks. I struggle with wanting a record of what I've > accomplished, but 1) like you, I don't want the clutter of dozens of > "completed copies" of recurring tasks and 2) I often "skip occurrences" of > my repeating tasks, as many of those are "want to" rather than "have to" > tasks. > -- Kent > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MyLifeOrganized" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Lisa ------------------------------ Lisa Stroyan, mailto: [email protected] <[email protected]> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
