Thanks so much for this clear, detailed explanation, Dwight. I've been running this "system" now for a couple of days to test it and it seems to work perfectly - actually better that I could have imagined that MLO could do it.
This approach also seems to provide a few unexpected bonus side-effects. One is that tasks that have been queued into the future stay coloured black while tasks that are active are green (Next Actions) so there is an automatic visual separation between the two. Additionally, I've found that I have the possibility now of clearly tracking how far ahead I am which means I can safely take extended breaks with reliable indications of when I need to return to work to stay on track. Also, I've discovered that I have many tasks in my business that actually fit nicely into this "getting ahead" category and by assigning the "Future View" context to them (that's my renaming of the +GettingAhead context), I can start to intuitively balance and plan my upcoming workload without needing to resort to project management software and Gantt charts. This last point is really transforming my usage of MLO. Another interesting little trick I'm trying is that of "incremental goal-reaching", for want of a better phrase. For example, if I need to, say, do a list of 28 identical activities in two weeks in order to achieve a particular goal then I know that by creating a daily repeating task telling me to do 2 of them, I will reach my goal in the required 14 days. But now I have automatic flexibility. Some days, I can do more, other days I can do less but, with this approach, MLO is automatically providing guidance to keep me on track without me needing to think day-to-day about how things are going. Have just started doing this and am finding it works surprisingly well. Being able to "push" recurring tasks into the future provides extra motivation to do a bit extra each day so that there's a buffer of time off later if I want to use it while still staying on target. I've also added a couple of extra filters to the right side of the advanced "OR" filter you've suggested - not(HasIncompleteSubtasks) - to allow hierarchies of "Future View" tasks - not(HideInToDo) - to allow myself to be able to hide branches that contain "Future View" tasks I've attached a screenshot to this message with the full filter set-up I'm using in case anyone else wants to replicate the view I'm working from. On Wednesday, 17 April 2013 04:28:28 UTC+1, Dwight Arthur wrote: > > Hi, Joe. You are asking to have a recurring task where you can "get ahead" > by completing future recurrences of the task. In order to have the future > recurrences appear in your active tasks list, you are looking to have the > tasks with no start date, or at least to have each new recurrence have due > dates stepping out into the future but the start date stays on today and > the lead time gets longer. > > I don't think you can do what you are asking but I think there are other > ways to handle it. -- 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.
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