When you choose to stick to MLO, you choose to act as a power GTD user.
After one year of usage, i'm at 80% productivity level thanks to MLO. I
am tweaking it to reach that 20% more. MLO is very open minded. You
choose your tabs, you choose your rules. Always around GTD.
Of course you can use it as basic too.
Suggestion: Try to use Next Review rule. That is my main rule and my GTD
runs around it.
Francesco Consoli
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Da: "damoski" <[email protected]>
A: "MyLifeOrganized" <[email protected]>
Inviato: 23/03/2016 23:29:47
Oggetto: [MLO] STILL can't get MLO to work for me
Hi,
I've been trying to figure out how to get an efficient daily process
with MLO, but I'm still left with a mountain of tasks and no clear view
of how much I need to do to get on top of my workload, or how I can
plan my days.
It's frustrating, because MLO has so much functionality that it should
be the right tool for me, but I can't ply it to my will.
Right now, I have a number of projects that I want to focus on, some
with due dates, and other with dates that I want to aim to complete by.
When I get a new project, I may flesh it out with some tasks, and put
due dates for those tasks based on when I need/expect to work on them.
That's all good.
I can mark it as a project, so when I view 'projects' I can clearly see
all the tasks assigned to it, and that they should all have dates. I
can then check a 'Due 7 next days' view (desktop), or calendar view
(mobile), to see how many tasks I have from various projects on various
days, and that I'm not over-extended on any one day.
It's just very clunky, and burns a huge amount of time doing manual
sorting and re-ordering to the point where I give up on the overall
daily review process. It's compounded by the fact that it's relatively
clunky to assign dates - ideally you could just drag and drop them
around the days on a calendar just like you can drag and drop
appointments in iOS calendar or Outlook, and then check back on the
project view to see that all tasks are assigned and when the outcome is
going to be. MLO does actually support good drag and drop between
contexts, but not dates.
I'm reconsidering my GTD process, and I'm seriously considering just
using MS Outlook tasks, since they can be displayed inline at the
bottom of each day, and drag/dropped between days easily - but those
don't offer the Project-focused views that MLO offers, nor the same
view as mobile. Another tool I quite like is XMind, which now has
Gantt charts for assigning timeframes for tasks and provides a great
overview of project completion, but unfortunately doesn't offer an
effective 'current task' view. Mindjet does offer a current task view,
and even syncs active tasks with Sharepoint, but costs a fortune.
Anyway - I'd be interested to understand how others perform their GTD
or workflow with MLO, and how that gives you a clear picture of your
task list and your forecast project completion dates.
Damo
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