Thank you Christoph for this relevant advice. Olivier Le vendredi 23 octobre 2015 00:24:41 UTC+2, Christoph a écrit : > > Am 22.10.2015 um 18:57 schrieb John . Smith: > > How do you run your Goals? > > I confess that I haven't got a good control of my Goals... > > In MLO, you would create the goal either as a task or a project (if it > is a "completable" goal), or as a folder (if the goal it is not really > "completable", like "becoming a better father to my kids"). > > MLO does not have specific indicators to distinguish goals from mundane > tasks other than the hierarchy. The goals are usually the items at the > top level of your hierarchy, the sub-goals and tasks to achieve the > goals are at the lower levels. You might want to create special flags > for marking important goals. > > When the term "goal" is used by the MLO, it really means a "timeframe" > (and it would have been better if they replaced the term "goal" with > "timeframe" throughout the program). The view "goals" is particularly > confusing, because it does not show only goals, but all tasks grouped by > their timeframes. > > The purpose of the "week", "month" and "year" indicator is only to help > you in scheduling your tasks (all tasks, not only goals). Every evening > (or morning), you go through your tasks marked as goal for the week, and > mark those you want to complete the next day with a star (for "to be > done today"). During the weekly review you will look at all your tasks > marked as goals for "month" and change those that you intend to do the > next week to "week". During a monthly review you will look at all the > "year" goals and change those for the next month to "month". Also, a > weekly goal boosts the computed score, so it appears higher in the todo > list, and it is also marked with a red exclamation mark so it really > sticks out. > > The timeframes of "week", "month" and "year" are tentative and not > absolute. You set absolute dates on tasks only if necessary, otherwise > you determine their order by importance and urgency only. > > The urgency setting and the week/month/year setting are in fact > overlapping, and I think that is a design flaw, since it forces you to > enter redundant information, and makes it possible to enter > contradicting values (for instance a goal for month with a lower urgency > than another goal for year). Anyway, the urgency setting is useful for > the fine grained ordering, the timeframes are for the coarse scheduling > during the reviews. > > You can also set "review" dates. This serves to re-evaluate the > timeframes you gave to your tasks at the given review dates, since your > priorities can change over time, and some tasks become irrelevant if you > just wait long enough. Depending on how "stable" you think a assessment > of the task is, the longer you can set its review interval. It is also > useful for those tasks that do not have any timeframe at all (the famous > "someday/maybe" list). At the review date you will have the chance to > decide whether a "someday/maybe" task should become concrete, within a > timeframe of year, month or week. > > This is how I'm using MLO, in the hope this helps other users. > > -- Chris >
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