Ok this one has been bouncing around in my head for a while. To be honest, I'm terrible at time management. I have a lot of trouble deciding what is more important or urgent and seeing as GTD etc are tools to "dumb down" your to-do list and let you focus on Next Actions, rather that the whole picture, I had an idea for a feature to do the same for priorities of tasks, as I get caught up in "Paralysis by Analysis" when trying to decide what is more important.
This is a bit pie in the sky but maybe a neat feature for future versions. I'd love to be able to select various tasks / projects in the outline view and tweak their importance/urgency score with a simple popup that would randomly show me 2 of the selected items and force to to choose which of the two was more important. When faced with only 2 options, it's easy to decide what's more important. When looking at 8 possible actions, not so easy. If I spent one minute looking at 20 different "battles" and picking the priority, it becomes way easier to compute relative "importance" scores and eliminates the need to try to arbitrarily set the importance of a task. Working your way down a tree would give clearer and clearer information on what is most important. Imagine being able to click a "Help me rank my actions" button and it first shows you top level options (First level parents) and you spend one minute refining their importance/urgency scores (Choosing "A is a lot more important(urgent) than B" vs "A is a bit more important(urgent than B" vs "Skip" and the opposites "A<<B", "A<B". Then it would show you match-ups from one level down and working your way down the tree. Spending 5 minutes every few days or once a week would ensure your scoring is still accurate and not out of date, and probably give you more realistic scores, eliminating subconscious bias in your scores set by slider. It's just a thought, but would be a neat little tool. What do you folks think? -- 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/6a221b62-6ef6-4392-8086-f88d6ecd7d22%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
