Hi SRhyse > For the first part on AoR, you can easily click on any folder and hit 'zoom in'. Okay but that only works on the tab (workspace) you are working in.
Could you explain further how use tabs? I find it very easy to get confused in MLO and wind up doing a large number of mouse clicks in order to achieve basic things. What other views do you regularly use and how do you swap between them? e.g. How for example do you change from filtered view to filtered view - do you: A) Set up a tab for each of them? or B) Save a view for each of them, that you fire up from the same tab? or C) Click on Filter (bottom left) and then click on each filter in turn? (again from the same tab) > MLO has a general concept of a task being 'active'. This means it doesn't start out in the future, > hasn't been hidden from todo views, isn't dependent on another task, and > isn't a task further down in a sequential list. Yes, although surely that blue bit is only true if you are in a Show Next Actions view. Do you use Show Next Actions as your default view then? > The issue you're running into with your 'someday' and 'active' distinction is trying to > handle it entirely with contexts it would seem. No, this is incorrect. I have tried everything Flags, Contexts, Directories, you name it! > Deferring something out with start dates and dependencies is one way. Yes I defer with start dates but intellectually that is something completely different! I use start dates for stuff I am definitely already doing but is waiting for someone/something to happen. Personally I found dependencies too fussy and pedantic/time consuming to set up so I have never experimented properly with them. What I seek is a convenient way to put stuff into a list that won't clutter up my Active screen but which can be reviewed later as a possible task to do ASAP. > It being further down in a sequential project is another. You mean a task is not the Next Action within a Project? I find that slightly clunky because I need a way to push more than one Next Action forward, but without having all the Actions within that project suddenly appearing at once. > And it being in a folder for things you might get to someday that is turned off in todo views is a third way. This works quite well but again it's slightly clunky because you need to create an entire folder each time you have a screen full of tasks some of which you want to put into the SomedayMaybe action status. It would be nice to be able to move stuff to Someday at a single click or single hotkeys interaction. Also if you make the entire SomedayMaybe folder invisible, how do you move tasks into it from the Active tasks view?! My other problem is I want to have a Soon/Later action status that allows me to quickly switch stuff on and off doing literally As Soon As Possible but without having that stuff get lost amongst stuff that is on a more long-term "possibly do at some point" list. > Every week, simply review your outline. Yes agreed. And this is an important habit. > For projects you can put them 'on hold' and 'in progress', which does the same thing on that level. Yes, projects can be of status: "Not Started" "In progress" "Suspended" "Completed" TBH, I had slightly forgotten about that. How do you use those statuses? > For other things, I use iThoughts, but I always treat those mindmaps as disposable. I thought iThoughts is Mac Only. Are you on a Mac? I didn't think that there was a Mac version of MLO(??) > MLO handles relative priority for me, as well as my own decision making when reviewing my actions. To get clear are you using Importance and Urgency only on a very few tasks? And do you achieve most of relative priority by manually changing the sort orders of everything? e.g. Moving projects past each other e.g. Moving actions withing projects past each other. If so within a project are you assigning Importance and Urgency at the level of of the Project or at the level of the task? And either way are you using a hierarchical view? And what are you sorting that view by? > Most of these one off folders have a context assigned so that any time I make or move a > task in there, it's automatically assigned that context. I am confused by this. Are you saying that for each Area of Life (Area of Focus) that you have multiple "one off" folders within each of your Context tags? For projects do you literally create a new "Project" for any task that cant be done in one go? e.g. say "Clean up kitchen" might involve 3 things that you didn't have time to do all in one go: - Do washing up - Wash floor - Wash dish cloths ==> Would you change its name to the desired outcome "Kitchen is clean"? And would you you change it's status to become a MLO project? And would you make it sequential or parallel? (Wait, how to do you make a project parallel in MLO??) Many thanks J > -- 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 mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. 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