thanks SRhyse! Well actually it works for me very well. Because part of my Workflow is marking the "must do" of important projects. And then drop them at different days, with other tasks. And mark the priority.
The since each tasks has a guesstimated time, then I know I might have tons of tasks one day, but they are emails so I can get a bunch done in 1 hour, versus 2 tasks that take 2 hours each another day. So number of tasks is really not that important vs duration. Unless it is a meeting or something that needs specific time, I do not assign the time for the task until that days morning, I just let it linger off my to do list until I reach the day I assigned at the begining of the week. Of course sometimes I don't do everything, but since I marked my musts and priorities, if anything is left it is either delegated, deleted or moved to another day. And of course if I finish early then I start planing the next day, of do other day task I feel like doing. The thing is to focus on the musts, and if something comes up then you know your day had an important milestone. I find if I don't assign a day to tasks, they will linger, and if they have a due date I will probably be rushing them at the last moment, and then as you said if something comes up, it falls apart but if instead of putting it on its due date, I assign it a day of the week 1 or 2 days before, if I procrastinate or something comes up, no problem. although I agree that if you try to schedule everything to the minute with no time cushion between tasks and use the 24 hour of the day, you will fail, but if of the lets say 8 hour work, you assign 4 or 5 hours of tasks and plus you know you gave each a bit more time than you really thought, then you have other 3 or 4 hours to deal with other / personal stuff.Or if you have assigned every tasks to your week, and gives you 12 work hours for each then you know you won't be able to do it, either move, delegate, delete or at least know you probably won't finish them all, and you start with your musts, then by priority, and see what you can move at the end. Sorry for the long response. Thanks for your reply, this is my reasoning for wanting to put tasks into week days, not necessarily schedule them to the exact time. Oh, btw I found something that might work, not ideal but could do. open 2 instances of MLO. Then have contexts and folders for days of the week. Copy and paste from one to the other to plan the week, forget about the first one and work with the last one. New tasks or projects come up, either assign them a day or if not for this week you can open the other instance. One would be the weekly 20,000ft view (projects, goals, etc), the other your day to day. Still seems kind of complicated, please any feedback of how you guys use MLO and plan your week would be greatly appreciated. On Thursday, August 18, 2016 at 5:11:17 PM UTC-5, SRhyse wrote: > > Hi Emilio! > > I'm not sure there's any way to assign specific dates to tasks or groups > of tasks other than to select them and then pick them from the > calendar/date wheel depending on what platform you're using MLO on. For > reference, however, how often are you accurate when it comes to things > being done on certain days or at certain times? I ask because one of the > nice things about MLO is that it can easily help you prioritize things and > get to them when you can. In my experience, though I do use start and due > dates to help with that on some things, most things are really 'when I can > get to them and in terms of their importance/urgency', not so much 'this > needs to be done on Tuesday or we're all gonna die'. > > Most of the attempts to precisely schedule things I see people do all tend > to fall apart because things never go as planned. Relative urgency, > importance, and priority, however, are more forgiving, flexible, and > accurate for a good number of things I see people having trouble when it > comes to trying to over structure them in terms of the date they'll be done > on. > > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/d390a783-a78c-4ab8-a30a-cbc7cb7a49a7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
