Hi Lisa
I've set up my mlo to reflect your ideas and I think it's going to work
well. I love the idea of 'starring' today's tasks. Up to now, I had been
due dates to manage which tasks to do. Of course, they slipped and kept
nagging at me.
Now I can be more specific about what to do each day depending on my
commitments and energy.
I have added "due before today +3" to the un-starred week and month view to
help control dated items. I still have many tasks that I need to assign a
goal to (I hadn't used goals before).
thanks again
Steve
On Saturday, 4 May 2013 13:56:35 UTC+2, MCA 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
>
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