I have long been arguing in the beta group for a List capability like
Trello.
The combination of a hierarchical task list and lists would be a killer
USP in my view.
Richard
On 2016-11-16 12:59, John . Smith wrote:
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
[1].
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Links:
------
[1]
https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/1cc83d99-1a99-40e9-aea5-6266108b6ecb%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer
--
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/578aeaa94233e99aa6e675ec838108db%40rcollings.co.uk.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
