Hi John,
If I recall, GTD was developed as a paper-based system, eg with lists in sections of a filing cabinet. MLO can do it with Dates, all in one list (profile). When do you want to Do, or Be Reminded Of, a task? I found Due Dates alone to be a good way to start, and I don’t mind postponing tasks. I experimented with Start Dates, but don’t use them much, as I don’t use auto-sort. Someday/ Maybe doesn’t have dates. They’re usually whole projects. What I do probably isn’t ‘Pure GTD’, but it’s enough to keep me on track. Regards Wol From: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com [mailto:mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of J Smith Sent: 01 August 2016 16:18 To: MyLifeOrganized <mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com> Subject: [MLO] Re: Advice needed on how to use Flags & Contexts in MLO. (e.g. Can Flags be set to be 'inherited' ?) Are there any other fields in MLO (other than Context-tag) that a child task does inherit from a parent task? For me these are deeply irritating issues, because I still haven't really managed to get MLO to work properly with the GTD method. To be honest sometime MLO feels like "The Monkey's Claw" [GRRR]. i.e. MLO has so much potential and is so full-featured, but there is always some unintended consequence of any new way of doing things that I manage to think up. My main problem I just cant work a good way move tasks & projects between GTD 'list'. MLO is such a powerful system and yet I feel stuck in 1st gear! For my "waiting for" list I mostly live in Active tasks views and just kick things along the road by putting the Start Date into the future, and review things then, but that's not ideal. My main problem is moving things between my "Someday-maybe" and my "Active" lists. I have experimented by putting everything into one of 2 folder (i.e. one called "ASAP" and one folder called "Sometime_Maybe"). I then physically move the tasks between the 2 folders, but it's very clunky, particularly when you get into the hundreds of tasks. To be honest I'm tempted to move back to pen & paper for a while as this technology is slightly getting in the way. J On Saturday, 30 July 2016 22:32:17 UTC+1, Stéph wrote: Hello John, No, I'm afraid there's no way of setting preferences for inheritance. I've raised it for consideration a few times - In my case, for example, I'd like to switch off inheritance of contexts and I would like new items to have a default start date of Today and default end date matching its parent's. All this was possible back when I was a Bonsai user, but there's no sign that it's going to be introduced in MLO in the near future. All the best, Stéphane On Wednesday, 27 July 2016 20:43:06 UTC+1, J Smith wrote: Hello I still need advice on how to structure things. I am finding that putting too much information into my Context-tags gets pretty messy - particularly when I use views like "Active Actions by Context"(!) Areas of Life I am using top level folders to distinguish my Areas of Life (e.g. Work, Personal-Admin, Recreation). I think this works well because tasks will almost never change Area of Life. (Fwiw, I also have some stuff I dont have to do stored in other different top level folders.) So far so good. But I can't decide how best to use: A) Flags and B) Context-tags in MLO ... so as to control: - GTD "List" (e.g. .Active, .Someday/maybe, .Waiting etc) and - GTD "Context" (i.e. "where" type information: @PC, @Errands, @Phone, @Home... and also "required mood" type information: ~Low_energy, ~High_Resistance, ~Tiddler ) >From first principles, in MLO A) Flags: - A task in MLO can only have one flag. - A new task in MLO will not inherit the flag of its parent B) Context-tags: - A task can you have multiple Contexts-tags per task, - MLO can be set up so that at a new child task will 'inherit' its Context-tag(s) from its parent. It seems to me that any given task, in fact any entire Project, should only be in one GTD "List" at a time. This would initially seem to point toward using Flags to control 'GTD List', but it is a pain when you add a child task to a project that it doesn't inherit the parent's flag (i.e. what would be the parent's GTD list status) Likewise it would be nice to be able to apply both a "where" type Context-tags AND a "mood" type Context-tag to the same task. For example a task might be say: "Ask boss for pay rise" @Phone ~High_Resistance But in general these contexts for individual Tasks are unlikely to inherit their values from their parents. So, thinking it all through... - Is there any way to get either get Flags to inherit their values OR - Is there any way to get multiple Flags per task (without needing to inherit) Any suggestions? Thanks J -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. 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