For me quick informal hierarchies are crucial. Only today I added three thank-you letters that I need to write. And in MLO it was really nice to be able to, having entered each of them as a standalone task to quickly group them into "WRITE LETTERS" (I tend to use caps when something has children) in a matter of seconds.
GTDNext allows for something similar although it has no mobile phone app and after a blazing start about 18 months ago, it seems to have lost development momentum. What drives me nuts about MLO however is the lack of a field for "actionable status". (Do ASAP, Someday, Maybe, Waiting, Soon, Later, etc). [Hence this thread!] Meanwhile, I have been having another look at Trello for using with the GTD-like method. With Trello you can set up a different List (of Cards) for each "actionable status" and because of the way lists are laid out vertically beside each other (i.e. Kanban system?), it's then trivially easy to move stuff between Lists of Cards. I haven't quite worked out how to do thing like Next [n] Tasks per Project... Nor how to create 'focus-on-this-today'... On Monday, November 14, 2016 at 8:34:17 AM UTC, Adam Byers wrote: > > John, > > It's interesting you bring up the pedantic nature of IQTell. I am > encountering the same limitations now that I've been trying it for a few > days. I was excited about the tight integration with email, and cloud based > services, but it is rather rigid. One of the things I love about MLO is the > hierarchical structure it has. I have been looking for the past few years > for a software program that supports this. I used to really love using > Todomatrix on the Blackberry because of this feature. I think my brain > works in this manner for sure. For me, the ability to see all of my > projects and the related tasks that are required to complete them from a > top down perspective is paramount. > > On Thursday, November 10, 2016 at 5:44:12 AM UTC-7, John . Smith wrote: >> >> >> I used to think the lack of a mobile app was a deal-breaker, but >> personally I am so intensely dissatisfied with all the task major >> management systems available (and I have asked around and tried all the >> leading tools) that I would now settle for anything that runs on Windows 10 >> , yes even stand alone software. That said, the obvious way forward >> nowadays would be to have a web application that is customised to work >> reasonably well on a mobile interface. >> >> Yes, I tried IQTell but found it rather pedantic. I particularly dislike >> the fact that as far as I could tell it forces you to decide whether >> something is a project or a standalone task right from the start (i.e. >> there is no easy say to move between a Project and multi-part task and a >> standalone task). As such this simply isn't how the human brain works. >> Most of the time one thinks in terms of desired outcomes and stuff that >> needs to be done, without categorising it artificially into such things. >> >> 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 [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/1cc83d99-1a99-40e9-aea5-6266108b6ecb%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
