Gads - a lot to digest. Interesting though. Thank you Christoph. I don't know if it's just me but I would very much like to have a calendar view of Goals. It wouldn't even need to be a 'table' structure - one row one day would do me. Complete with Start Date and Due Date for the each Goal.
Is any such thing possible or planned? And in the meanwhile is there any way to export goals into something more visually helpful? J P.S. As things stand, although I do find MLO great for handling details, I find it terrible for *visualising* the big picture/overview of what's going on in my life and making strategic plans. On Thursday, October 22, 2015 at 11:24:41 PM UTC+1, Christoph wrote: > > 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 > -- 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/aee1560a-d1db-4d84-a7e8-22933a7681d7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
