Hi, Richard. I'm familiar with the problem of tasks coming at me faster than I'm able to set them up properly. My solution may not work for you as i have never used manual sorting.
Every one of my tasks has one or more contexts. When I'm being overwhelmed by new tasks I create them without contexts. The next time that I'm in a calm place I bring up a view of active tasks with context (none) and ove each one to the place in the outline where it belongs and add one or more contexts, along with start and due dates, dependencies, importance and urgency as appropriate. -Dwight Mlo betazoid on Android sgn2 On Feb 27, 2014, Richard C <r...@rcollings.co.uk> wrote: I have two modes of working as an IT Consultant: Planning mode: when I am working at home, most of the time, I tend to be working in quite a structured way - I won't go into the detail but this involves heavy use of MLO to plan and manage my timeArrrgh mode: (I don't have a good label for this) but it typically occurs when I am on a client's site where I have back to back meetings, workshops, hand holding sessions, etc. When I am in this mode, I normally know what to do next by looking at my calendar - ie I have a meeting/workshop/event or something; or I have to prepare for the next meeting/workshop/event. This is when my use of MLO goes out of the window. This is not necessary a problem except that people are throwing new things at me that I need to remember to do (and I keep thinking of things that I need to do). It is this that I want to focus on. When I am in Arrgh mode, I don't have time to add stuff into my MLO Outline in the right place so I could be using the Inbox. The only problem with this is that new Tasks go to the of my To Do list (which is manually sorted) where I don't see them. So one solution to this would be to have a flag on a folder which says (in a shorter form that this) 'New sub-tasks added to start of manually sorted To Do lists'. If this was ticked on the Inbox, any new items added would immediately appear at the start of my To Do list which I would see the next time I looked at my To Do list. I can then immediately decide what to do with them (action, delay, drag to their correct place in the MLO hierarchy, whatever). That's one suggestion but if anybody has another way of dealing with this 'Arrgh' mode of working, I would be very interested to hear. Richard -- 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 mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/dc5fe02f-fbff-4918-a81a-d6c1a5950780%40katmail.1gravity.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
