Hi Sylvia I can remember feeling exactly the same when I started using MLO - it is a bit daunting. But 7 or 8 years on, I am still using it and couldn't manage without it.
>From what I can remember, I started by creating an empty file and just using it to manage a few tasks to get a feel for how it works. And then later on, looking at the different templates to try and decide how to organise a larger number of tasks. One of key (but difficult) decisions is whether to use the automatic sorting of tasks in the To Do list (based on the Computed Score) or the Manual sorting where you just drag and drop tasks into the order in which you want to do them. I could never really get the Computed Score mechanism to work and use the manual sorting. To switch to manual sorting, you just start dragging and dropping items in your To Do list. I am not a big fan of Getting Things Done but it is probably worth reading because a) there are some good ideas there; and b) it is the approach that MLO was originally based on. BUT (and it is big but), the beauty of MLO is that it is very flexible so that you can build your own way of working Hope this helps and good luck. Regards Richard On Tuesday, 3 June 2014 00:04:12 UTC+1, Sylvia R Flores wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I decided to get organized and eagerly decided to purchase the software, > but now that I have it installed on my PC and iPad I am starting to feel > overwhelmed. Any tips and/or ideas are more than welcomed. Where do I start? > > Thanks in advance! > Sylvia > > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/6a35700c-5832-4f35-b9ad-7f75f5992404%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
