Over the weekend, I wound up doing much what you are suggesting, right down to starred items for the daily outcomes! However, I am not yet versed in the Automatic Formatting, so I will take a look at that! I think I will try that along with Elizabeth's suggestion about using contexts.
So each of my "Rule of 3" Outcomes for day, week, month, would be set up as a goal for that timeframe, and then assigned to contexts "W-ARR3 Planning" or "J-ARR3 Planning" depending on whether Work or Personal (J). ARR3 MLO template, coming up any week/month/year now, LOL. I will share how it's going periodically. One huge problem I am having so far is keeping work and personal separate in MLO. Things like Outlook Sync (Work) that I want to keep confined to Work tasks, and the views between Desktop and Mobile... a separate Work Inbox and a Personal Inbox... If there are any really useful discussions of setting up MLO to keep Work and Personal separate, I would appreciate links to them anyone can share. My inclination for now is that I would like to keep work and personal in the same MLO file. I have considered setting up two separate files, one for work, one for personal, but am thus far holding out on doing that, trying to make a single MLO file work. James On Monday, November 18, 2013 5:35:52 AM UTC-8, Philb wrote: > > James, > > Another way you could implement this is using MLO's built in Goals > feature. You can set goals for Week Month and Year, and using the > Automatic Formatting Feature, assign your choice of icons to them. Perhaps > you could use the Star feature for Daily Outcomes. That way, depending on > how many projects you have, and how big or complex your outline is, you > would not have to start moving stuff around to maintain those Folders, as > Elizabeth said. > > I have read through JD's stuff which pulls together from many views on > personal effectiveness. I think he is on to something. After all, it's > nice to know you can set yourself up to win daily. > > Good luck, and let us know how you decide to implement. > > Phil > > On Thursday, November 14, 2013 8:18:38 PM UTC-5, James D wrote: >> >> >> Greetings, >> >> I am looking for guidance in implementing the Agile Results >> methods/approach within MLO. I am coming back to MLO after a couple years >> away, and in truth I didn't really master much the first time because I >> wound up going back to Ecco Pro, an excellent 1997 outline-based PIM. I'm >> back for good. I will just call the system I'm implementing ARR3, as in >> Agile Results/Rule of 3 (J.D. Meier should come up with a catchy acronym, >> for marketing purposes certainly!) ARR3 is a hybrid of Covey, GTD, ZTD, and >> Agile. I am liking very much so far, and can see it as my long-term >> approach, and that it will scale. It also seems like MLO has an excellently >> match of features to the approach of ARR3. Below is some summary >> information about ARR3. I am currently working on setting up, in MLO, the >> 3 results for the day, 3 results for the week, 3 results for the year >> areas. I currently have a set of 3 for Work & Personal.I will focus on the >> Work and Personal here. >> >> Right now I'm just trying to get the right "feel" for working >> productively in MLO with this setup. So far, in MLO, I have separate >> outline folder branches set up for Work, Personal and RoadMap (my analog to >> ARR3 "Hotspots" and Areas of Focus/Roles and Goals). I primarily work in >> the Personal and Work areas. >> Under each Work/Personal branch, I have the following 3 folders set up: >> Daily Outcomes, Rule of 3; Weekly Outcomes, Rule of 3; and Yearly >> Outcomes, Rule of 3. (With a "W" or "P" prefix in front of the folder name) >> >> Then, under each Week/Month/Year "Outcomes, Rule of 3" folder, I created >> 3 folders, for each of the three "Projects"/Outcomes I want to create >> within the time period. On the outcomes folders for week, month, and year, >> I marked each subfolder/project as "Goal" for Week/Month/Year, as >> appropriate. Then, under each folder, I place the >> projects/subprojects/tasks that support accomplishment of each goal. >> >> I would like to just work with Goals, Projects, and Tasks in outline >> view, and perhaps have a Goals view I can look at that would show me only >> my Rule of 3 outcomes for week/month/year, and not have to have these items >> under a "Weekly Outcomes, Rule of 3" or "Monthly Outcomes, Rule of 3" >> >> That is where I am right now. I am curious if anyone else has tried >> implementing this ARR3 system, or something very similar, in MLO, and what >> advice they have to share. The trick is to capture things to be done in a >> trusted system, that then helps you remember and execute them in a >> productive way. The challenge for me is spending too much time creating >> and managing lists of what "could" be done and not enough time "doing" it. >> That is where a tool like MLO comes in as effective, to help help keep >> focus on the "doing" >> >> James D. >> >> AGILE RESULTS SUMMARY >> =============================================== >> Agile Results: >> http://www.30daysofgettingresults.com/2011/10/day-1-take-tour-of-getting-results.html >> Essential Principles: >> *The Three Key Parts of Agile Results* >> Here are the three key parts to Agile Results: >> >> 1. *The Rule of 3* >> 2. *Monday Vision, Daily Outcomes, and Friday Reflection* >> 3. *Hot Spots* >> >> In Agile Results, we use The Rule of Three to map out what we want to >> accomplish in sets of three’s: >> >> - *3 results for the day* >> - *3 results for the week* >> - *3 results for the month* >> - *3 results for the year* >> >> >> =============================================== >> >> BACKGROUND >> Recently I tried a bunch of GTD-focused tools and chose Nozbe, which >> works quite well for people with shorter lists of projects, but bogged down >> badly as my list of projects grew, and does not support breaking projects >> and tasks down (outlining), and does not have any linkage between projects >> and the goals they support. It does many, many things well though; possibly >> a different post to contrast/compare what MLO could learn from the >> GTD-Cloud-Crowd apps like Nozbe, NirvanaHQ, etc. In Nozbe (a cloud GTD >> app) it was simple enough to set each up as "Projects" and each result as a >> "Task" under that project, but of course with no outline capabilities and >> no linkage of goals & priorities to projects that support those goals, it >> broke down. So I came running back screaming to MLO. I am back to MLO to >> stay, and committed to learning it well this time. (The availability of >> Android and iOS apps was the key to coming back, that and especially the >> active, communicative development leadership, that I can bet on continued >> existence and improvement of the MLO toolset.) >> >> I have tried tons of different approaches, from Covey to GTD to ZTD to >> Agile/Scrum to Kanban to Forster's AutoFocus to Flylady to you name it. >> (And tried tons of different tools, too distracting to mention here.) The >> approach that seems to work best for me is a blend of GTD, ZTD, but also >> broken down by areas of life, like Covey's approach. I also find I really >> want to keep my personal and work mostly separate. As I am also involved in >> software development, at my work we are recently emphasizing agile >> methodologies and Scrum in particular. I recently happened to run across >> J.D. Meier's "Getting Results the Agile Way". I will just call it ARR3, as >> in Agile Results/Rule of 3 (he should come up with a catchy acronym, for >> marketing purposes certainly!) ARR3 is a hybrid of Covey, GTD, ZTD, and >> Agile which I am liking very much so far, and can see it as my long-term >> approach. It also seems like MLO has an excellent match of features to the >> approach of ARR3. >> >> >> LINKS >> ZTD: http://productivemag.com/1/zen-to-done-ztd >> >> http://zenhabits.net/zen-to-done-ztd-the-ultimate-simple-productivity-system/ >> >> http://zenhabits.net/minimal-ztd-the-simplest-system-possible/ >> >> -- 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. 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