Hi Dwight, See below... hope this provides a little more depth as such...
I’m guessing that you are not a user of repeating tasks with subtasks. You described your interests being focused on what’s to come and that you have little interest in what has been done. With repeating tasks, your past tasks become your future tasks and cannot easily be dismissed. This does not sound like you. I use a dedicated section for recurring actions-- which, as you describe, don't have any subtasks. This makes it easier to track the discrete one-off actions from the recurring actions, either in the context of @work or @home. So I’m guessing that you have a lot of tasks that are organized as projects. Because if you don’t have subtasks of repeating tasks and you don’t have tasks in projects, this change does not affect you. For me, many of the things about projects require tasks completed early to stick around into the later phases of the project. For example, you can’t compute a meaningful progress bar or percent complete if the early tasks have been archived. So I’m wondering what you get out of organizing your tasks as projects. Would you mind describing how you use the projects, and what you get out of them that you wouldn’t get from, say, a folder full of tasks. Sort of correct: I have a lot of projects that are organized as projects (building and organizing desk from the ground up (building organzing extensive wall desk, complicated home improvement projects that require a good deal of sub-sections to effectively track what's going on where...), with a good deal of discrete, non-repeating tasks. Once the task is done, I'm never doing it again. For my purposes, I really have no reason to 'track' progress on the project since it's not so much a function of how far along I am (I don't need to track for billing purposes, for example) but rather how much do I have left to complete, what's left on the plate that needs to be done, so I can strike the project knowing the hundreds-- quite possibly thousands (been working on this desk for over a year...) of discrete actions are completed in total before moving on to the next project. By designating projects as a 'project' , it also allows me to set up a dedicated tab that only displays the parent project title which makes it infinitely easier to review projects by upcoming time frame, as well as annual planning to determine which projects get the green light and which ones can be deferred. -- 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.
