Hi Joel, I use Google Calendar to get an overview of the week's fixed events. I generally don't place tasks from MLO onto the calendar unless I have to, and I find MLO's Date and Goals views sufficient. I have a weekly planning session involving a 2-stage process of situation assessment (i.e. noting important current information which needs to be taken into consideration to meet standards in key areas, based on up-to-date info from various relevant sources and consideration of relevant factors of expected events) and then decision making based on that assessment, from which goals for the week ahead emerge. A mini-version of this situation assessment and planning every morning also, for the day's work, mostly involving checking calendar and due/goal MLO tasks and thinking about the preconditions for goals to be achieved or standards to be met. It can be helpful to keep a detailed Event Log of the day or a period, in which any relevant event or problem is listed with the time. This can be examined afterwards to better understand what went wrong in a day or week and debug, problem solve, and plan better iterations for the following day or week.
Jon. On Saturday, 5 September 2015 05:40:30 UTC+10, Holmes245 wrote: > > Hey guys, I've been using MLO for the past several years, at least since > 2010, I believe. However, I'm at a point where I want to plan out the next > week but I find that it's hard to do with MLO. I recently watched a video > by Brett McKay from the Art of Manliness called "How to Plan Your Week > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNxLNY6yxRI> - private > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNxLNY6yxRI>" which requires one to look > at what needs to be done. One of the tools he used as an example is a > calendaring tool. The benefit of the calendar is that you can see your week > overview. With MLO, I can't do this since one can't see repeating tasks. Is > there any setup or ideas that you guys would have for using MLO with > something like Google Calendar to plan out one's week and what needs to get > done? I wish they implemented together. I have found one web task outliner > that does but have had problems with tasks updating in the outliner when I > change them in Google calendar. This probably indicates that I may have to > move another tool for practical purposes since MLO doesn't have a calendar > but wanted to check in with you all for ideas before I did. I may not be > using MLO the best way. Perhaps I should only be sticking to projects > (tasks with more than one action for me) and try not to use it to keep > every thing I need or want to do in it? > > Thanks. > Joel > -- 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/ae49666c-af20-4f73-a0d0-a12d411f7961%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
