Alexis wrote “The option to defer tasks easiliy surely is a weakness of MLO.” . . .
No, I don’t think so. Before I found MLO I was managing my tasks in Microsoft Project and syncing them to my Blackberry. I found then (as I still do) that every day comes with more tasks than I can get done. At the time my tasks were all scheduled, with each one showing when I planned to start and finish it. Every day there would be some tasks that I would have to postpone and other tasks that I would have to re-postpone to make room for the newly postponed tasks. Eventually I found myself spending maybe 25% of my time in any day managing and massaging the dates in my task list. I decided that this was no good, and set out to find a different way to manage tasks that would not lead to this problem. What I found was the “Getting Things Done” methodology with the radical (to me) idea that tasks should not be scheduled unless absolutely necessary. “Lunch with Bill next Tuesday at noon” obviously gets scheduled. I’m allowed to make changes to my health insurance from October 15 through December 7, that should be scheduled at well. But the schedule tells me the period of time when it can be done, not the day on which I’m currently planning to do it. “Buy ink refills” doesn’t get a date, even if I think I will probably get to it tomorrow. After a couple of years of fiddling with importance, goals and flags I am to the point that the stuff at the top of my to-do list is the stuff I need to do today. I spend very little time postponing tasks and I’m really happy to have it that way. By the way, you can quickly postpone a non-recurring task with Ctrl/= or Ctrl/Alt/=, recurring tasks are a whole different issue: are you postponing just the next occurrence or the whole series? -Dwight -- 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/00f701cfe733%248fb36200%24af1a2600%24%40dwightarthur.us. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
