I'm not sure if this has been answered elsewhere but GTD has various fundamental list - Inbox (unprocessed) - Active (do ASAP) - Scheduled (tickler) - Waiting (delegated or cant start yet due to external constraint(s) ) - Someday/Maybe
It bothers me somewhat that MLO does not have a field for these things. I am a newbie, so I am hoping to be able to work around this bit ideally would like to have master buttons to select each of those lists and whist there, that is all I see! And everything else seems quite fiddly and confusing to the uninitiated. (And that is a bad thing for sales!) e.g. Things go straight into Active 'Sheduled' does seem to be implicit in that if you create a Start Date then the Action is moved out of being active - Fine. But (if I'm right) the "Waiting" and "Someday/Maybe" are not implemented AT ALL ! This seems terrible to me. The best I can do is mess about using special tags to simulate these lists. But OMG - considering that it is such a fundamental part of GTD - this is *insanely* hard/fiddly for the newbie. My suggestion (which you won't like) is that you need some structural changes here. i.e. You need to add a new field to the underlying database called List. And have each item only able to be in one of these lists. Then with a single click somewhere highly visible (e.g.Top bar) the user can see ONLY those items that are in the list whose name has been ticked. i.e. You have the 5 GTD lists as tick boxes. What am I missing? J On Saturday, November 29, 2014 11:19:42 AM UTC, Christoph wrote: > > Am 29.11.2014 um 02:16 schrieb Dwight Arthur: > > Some people set aside a time every day for a daily review, others > > might do it weekly. > > This, by the way, is one of the most crucial things in the GTD > methodology. If you fail to do it, GTD and MLO will not really work > properly. MLO supports reviews very well. > > Note that even though GTD uses a single, "trusted system", the MLO inbox > does not be your only inbox. You can also have a physical inbox, or an > additional folder in your mail client. All these are then part of the > "trusted system." You must only make sure that during the review, you go > through all the inboxes. > > It is worthwile to create your own repeating tasks for the weekly, > monthly, yearly reviews and checklists for the things you need to do > during the reviews. E.g. process the inbox, check the "Review" view, > check the progress in your projects, check your goals, etc. > > -- Chris > -- 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/3e447f7e-d584-45cf-a442-d19468e64077%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
