Olivier As you know the tools in MLO can be used a lot of different ways, and anything that works for you is right, there’s no wrong. So I can’t talk about what “goal” really means or should mean. I can only tell you about how I use it.
For me, start date tells the first day a task *can* be done and due date tells the date after which the task is no longer possible or meaningful. These dates tell when the task is possible, but do not tell anything about when I *want* to do it. For that, I use importance, star and goal. Importance=200 means that this task must be done immediately upon becoming active, in other words I want it to be done within an hour or so. Star means I want it done in a day or so. Weekly and monthly goals mean that I want it done in a week or so or that I want it done in a month or so. I wish that there was a quarterly goal but there isn’t so I use yearly goals to mean that I want it done in a quarter or so. I do most of my work off of a to-do list called “daily” that shows tasks with a star, tasks with the context “☆Today”, anything with a due date in the next 3 days, weekly goals last modified more than a week ago, monthly goals modified more than a month ago, yearly goals modified more than a quarter ago, and some other stuff. It’s sorted by importance, so tasks with importance=200 are at the top. My question to you was based on my perception that you were using three indicators to get only one indicator worth of information. You are (I think) looking for tasks that are goals, divided into brackets based on time remaining until due date. You can already easily divide tasks into brackets based on time remaining for due date. For example, “((DueDateTime on or after Today+7) AND (DueDateTime on or before Today+30))” will show you all of the tasks due in the next month but not in the next week. So all you need is one indicator that a task is a goal and some well-written filters and you have what you are looking for. By contrast, indicators that say “I want to get this done within an hour of when it comes active” or “I want to get this done within a day of when it comes active” or “I want to get this done within a week of when it comes active” or “I want to get this done within a month of when it comes active” or “I want to get this done within a quarter of when it comes active” actually tells me five different things that I cannot record with fewer than five indicators. So to answer your other question, for me a task that’s a weekly goal with a due date in a year would be a task that *could* be done any time this year but that I *want* to do this week. A task that has a yearly goal and a due date a week away would possibly be a task that has been sitting in my queue for a long time and that’s running out of time. It’s a task that I’m not all that passionate about but if it isn’t going to get done soon will become impossible or meaningless. In other words, there’s a good chance it’s a task that’s going to be deleted. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of robisme (Olivier R) Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015 5:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MLO] automatize Goal Hi, In light of your question, I think I'm not understanding this function the right way. Can you explain what exactly is a task with due date next week, beeing a year goal, and vice versa? Shortly : what is a goal? I feel like I "misfire" (is that an appropriate word?) 2 important things in MLO : Goals and Review. Olivier Le jeudi 23 avril 2015 22:02:09 UTC+2, Dwight Arthur a écrit : Hi, Olivier. I’d like to make sure that I understand what you are proposing. If MLO worked as you are discussing, and I created a task with a due date next week and marked it a year goal, would MLO automatically change it to a week goal? How about if I created a task with a due date a year from now and marked it as a week goal, would MLO right away change it to a year goal? -Dwight From: [email protected] <javascript:> [mailto:[email protected] <javascript:> ] On Behalf Of robisme (Olivier R) Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 1:04 PM To: [email protected] <javascript:> Subject: [MLO] automatize Goal Hi, Perhaps have I misunderstood the principle of the Goal functionality, but I'd like MLO to auto change it depending on due date. I mean, when a Year goal is coming next month, mark it as month, and so on for week. 1) is that possible? 2) am I wrong in my use of this function? (not intended to mean "THIS year, THIS month or THIS week as I do, but rather YEARLY, MONTHLY, WEEKLY") Olivier -- 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] <javascript:> . To post to this group, send email to [email protected] <javascript:> . 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/02b3318e-a487-475f-b114-5ce66dad9ccf%40googlegroups.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/02b3318e-a487-475f-b114-5ce66dad9ccf%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. 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