Very late reply here. I have the same pain - I would like to be able to grab a bunch of tasks from various views and drop them into a timeslot on my calendar. In terms of when I'm planning now/next, the most dominant context of use is the timeslot - I know I'll be in the city "this afternoon" so will focus on some client meetings, or admin tasks at the post office, for example. I know I'll have the house to myself "tomorrow morning", so will select some deep-focus tasks for then.
The new calendar feature in MLO iOS does show tasks from the calendar, and tasks due on that date in MLO, on the view for a given day, but I find I can't use it - if I followed it, then I would only complete each task on the same day it was due! So - what I have working for me is a set of 21 contexts: !11 Monday morning !12 Monday afternoon !13 Monday evening !21 Tuesday morning !22 Tuesday afternoon .......etc !63 Saturday evening !71 Sunday morning !72 Sunday afternoon !73 Sunday evening I then have a view called "Daily tasks", which is a list of Active Actions, filtered for "any" of the 21 contexts above, and also grouped by Context. What that gives you, is a single collapsible view with each timeslot and the tasks under it, with the timeslots in chronological order from Monday to Friday. Hence, if I want to see what I have planned for Wednesday afternoon, I can view "Daily tasks" and expand the "!32 Wednesday afternoon" context in that view. I can keep the current context open, and tick off the tasks as I work on them. This allows me to insert tasks into periods where I think I would be in a position to work on them, but also spot periods that are getting busy. The reason for the "!11", "!12", etc, is that it keeps them all in chronological order in the context list, rather than appearing disorganised if sorted alphabetically. The "!" puts it at the top of the context list, so it is easy to select those contexts in both Windows and the iOS app. The number also means you can click in the context field and type "23", and it will autocomplete as "!23 Tuesday evening" - so you can quickly add the context with just two keypresses, and avoid spending too much time on organisation. I have the view as a flat list aside from the context grouping. The view works fine in both Windows and iOS. Also - if I want more focus than that - say, I go to the shops and want just the tasks that afternoon relating to shopping, I'll just 'star' the tasks, and use the starred list. After that context is over, I'll clear the stars and go back to "Daily actions". Not ideal, but the closest I've found that works - you're "adding" an "I'll work on this at this time" tag to tasks for the upcoming week, but you don't have to rearrange hierarchies, confuse due dates, or modify anything else, and you can add/remove tasks from those timeslots as events transpire. D On Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 6:13:47 AM UTC+10, Robert F wrote: > > Great dialog. Depending on how you define a project I probably use it for > both project and task management. > What I'm having trouble with is how to use MLO to drive my daily actions > without having to do detailed review of thousands of tasks. It's clearly > the most powerful tool on the market. The power and flexibility is partly > what is challenging me. Sometimes when I come up with the workflow and stay > with it I'm able to use the tool to drive my work. The moment I fall out of > step with my plan, it all falls apart and I'm not even aware that is > falling apart. > > Additionally, I have the windows version which is my primary tool, along > with the iPad version, and the android version and I use cloudsync for all > of them. > > I would love to see how people are using MLO on a daily basis to drive > the tasks that they focus on. I understand that that's part of, and > dependent on, an individuals workflow. My struggle is still with using the > tool to drive my work versus its capability of getting everything out of my > brain and tracked into a system. -- 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/c4852ece-28f4-4cac-9a28-d6c048330885%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
