Thanks Lisa I liked MCA's post about using Phraseexpress : I use PE and was going to implement MCA's solution when I saw your post! Much better to get the fundamentals right. I use GTD and your approach will work well for me.
All I need now is to create a system in MLO. I don't use the review system at all - perhaps that will help Steve On Sunday, 5 May 2013 16:15:49 UTC+2, Lisa S wrote: > > Hi MCA, > > Thank you for sharing your Phrase Express tips. > > You mentioned that you have a lot of tasks that you change to future > dates. There are probably much more efficient ways to manage your task list > in MLO, if you are interested in brainstorming them. You might consider a > process where you mark those that you are going to work on rather than > changing all of the ones you are not. Contexts, Flags, and Star are ways to > do this. > > I find it more efficient to use start date only for tasks which are not > available until a particular date, to avoid the cycle of constantly > changing the start date. > > Anyway, just an idea! > > > On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 5:56 AM, MCA <[email protected] > <javascript:>>wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> recently I discovered PhraseExpress - an automating hotkey tool for >> windows, free for private usage. >> Meanwhile I find it really useful in combination with MyLifeOrganized to >> automate specific actions. >> >> An example that I use and see it as quite helpful: >> I have a lot of entries in my MLO database (~3000). >> Especially at the beginning of a month or a week I am facing a very long >> list of entries from which - I have to admit - 80% have to be postponed to >> later hours, other days or weeks. >> Doing that with the mouse is a quite time consuming thing as I have to >> pick a date from the calender or the context menu of the start date field. >> >> Via keyboard it gets better, I can press "ALT+S" to set the focus to the >> start date field and then enter something like Tue (for Tuesday), 5d (for >> "in 5 days") or 3w (for "in 3 weeks"). >> Due to the numerous entries even that takes up some time. >> >> I was looking for a possibility to quickly postpone entries, e.g. to >> Thursday, Saturday or to a later start time, let's say in e.g. 5 hours. >> With PhraseExpress this is finally possible. >> >> I create a folder "MyLifeExtensions" in PhraseExpress, below that a >> folder "postponing to days" and in that folder a hotkey macro "shift MLO >> entry to Fr". >> That macro will receive the following text: >> {#ALT -chars s}Fr >> {#TAB -count 9} >> {#ENTER} >> >> What is simulated? >> 1. Alt+S (--> this sets the focus to the startdate field) >> 2. Fr (--> this text is entered in the startdate field) >> 3. The tab key will be pressed 9 times. This quickly jumps though all >> dialog boxes and the cursor/focus will be in the tasklist again in the end >> so that I can continue without the need to take the mouse. The number of >> tabs depends on the number of dialog boxes and menu items that are >> displayed with your MLO. >> 4. The EnterKey is optional, I found out that I sometimes needed this >> extra key press. >> >> The whole macro is bound the the hotkey Alt+5 as Friday is the fifth day >> of the week. I have similar hotkeys for all days from Mo to Su (Alt+Numpad1 >> to Alt+ Numpad 7). >> The macro is limitied to the MLO application only so it won't be >> activated in other applications than the mlo.exe. >> >> >> Now I can quickly shift entries from my list to other days just by >> selecting the entry and press Alt+ Numpad 1, Alt+ Numpad 5, Alt+ Numpad 3 >> and so on...depending to which day I want the entry shift to. >> >> The same can be used for hours. It works similar just instead of "{#ALT >> -chars s}Fr" I use "{#ALT -chars s}7h" and use the hotkey with Ctrl instead >> of Alt. >> >> >> Using these hotkeys I can quickly set my entries to the right days and >> can do my daily review much faster. >> >> >> Other macros are also possible. Phraseexpress can be used for a lot of >> actions. >> >> I am not affiliated with Phraseexpress or their developers, don't receive >> money from them... I just wanted to share this with you, maybe helpful to >> the one or the other. >> >> >> Greetings >> >> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> >> . >> 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] <javascript:> > -- 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.
