Hi, Emma. You are on the right track. There are a lot of different ways that people have found to use workspaces; assigning a life goal to each is one pretty good approach. But you can't assign a task or project to a workspace just by adding it there. You have to indicate for each task or project, which goal(s) it supports, and then tell each workspace which goal to display.
MLO has a lot of power and offers multiple ways of doing things. This makes for some added complexity, but you will appreciate it as time goes by and you want more power to accomplish more complex things. There are a few ways you can mark which goal(s) apply to which tasks. You could set up a flag for each goal and flag the tasks. You could create a tree structure with a folder for each goal and put the tasks and projects in the appropriate folder. You could assign a context for each goal. And I'm sure there are other solutions. I'm going to work with the tree structure as I think it's an easier way to keep your tasks sorted as you add new ones. If you found that you often had a single task that supported multiple goals I would use contexts instead. Start by creating a tab all the way to the left, called "outline" and make sure it is displaying the "all tasks" view. Starting in this left tab, create your folders, one per goal. You can add tasks and projects to the folders now or save them for later, it doesn't matter which. Now, create a tab for each goal. Give each tab a helpful name and make sure that the two checkboxes about sync are both cleared. For each goal, make sure it is showing the "all tasks" view. Find the folder for this goal, right-click on it and select "Zoom In" from the menu that pops up. One last thing: right-click the tab and select "set as default for this tab" That's it: each workspace is now zoomed in to one of your goals. Anything you add will go into that goal's folder. If the tabs get messed up and start showing the wrong thing, check in the Outline tab to make sure your folder are still correct. Then double-click any messed up tab, and it should reset to the correct view. -Dwight From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Emma Sousa Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 9:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [MLO] Can you help understanding the workspace? Just started using this as a trial...wanted a tool which I could use to set some life goals and thought if I created a workspace for each of my areas and add the projects/tasks it would work well. The problem is when I create a workspace all tasks from all areas show in every workspace...I can't seem to get them to stay separated. Am I misunderstanding how the workspace tabs work? Not sure if I'm making this more complicated. -- 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. -- 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.
