I understand that ignoring tasks with a distant due date would be an
adjustment. I think it is beneficial for several reasons
1. The biggest productivity boost I got from adopting GTD and MLO was a
big reduction in the amount of time I spent rescheduling things and
tweaking my schedule. Now, I do not pick a date when something is going
to happen, I pick a start date (the date before which the task cannot be
done) and a due date (the date on which the task becomes impossible or
meaningless.) Between those dates, tasks are picked because of
importance or context, with some attention to tasks with a due date
approaching. I find that liberating and powerful. When things are going
well, everything gets completed well in advance of the due date.
2. Instead of a binary "due date or not" the idea of approaching due
date allows more levels and is therefore a more powerful task management
tool. You can easily use views like "due next 30 days" or "due next
seven days" to filter out the tasks you need to deal with. You can also
use autoformat (on Windows) to raise the visibility of near-due (and
overdue!) tasks by changing the background colour, and you can set as
many layers of this as you like.
3. Once you have mastered treating distant-duedate tasks the same as
no-duedate tasks that opens the door to using MLO to track things that
have an actual but distant due date. I have a lot of tasks that need to
be done a year from now, or next April (tax time), a few tasks as much
as five years out (an investment matures, time for a repeat of a medical
test).
-Dwight
On 11/17/2016 2:04 AM, Alexandre Jesus wrote:
Hello Dwight,
thanks for your answer, but the main problem with that approach is that
in a main task list I will have to start ignoring tasks that have a due
date (even if very in the future). For me, if a task has a due date then
it must stand out in the task list so I can make sure that I'm doing the
right things. If I start ignoring a few due dates here and there, its
easy to start ignoring a few other ones (call it procrastination).
Thanks for the help
Alex
On Wednesday, November 16, 2016 at 7:02:28 PM UTC, Dwight Arthur wrote:
Hi, Alex. The way recurrence works in MLO, the formula (eg recurs the
last weekend day of every third month) describes the due dat; the start
date is calculated by subtracting the lead time from the due date. As a
result you can't specify a recurrence without setting a due date. But
you can set the due date so far in the future that it will never
show up
in your lists of overdue or almost-due tasks.
For example, you could set up a recurrence pattern in which you select
hourly recurrence (because it is the easiest one to tweak) and set the
recurrence interval to be 100y 3m which means 100 years 3 months. Then
you can set the lead time to 100y. The result will be that whenever you
complete the task it will reschedule itself to start three months in
the
future. There is a due date but it is not for 100 years so it should
not
cause you any problems.
Let me know if this helps.
-Dwight
On 11/16/2016 2:50 AM, Alexandre Jesus wrote:
> Hello,
>
> For example, I would like to clean the inside of a faucet usually
every
> 3 months. This task must start counting the next 3 months after I
> complete the first one, so it must start counting the 3 months
after the
> completion of the original task.
> Because this is not a mandatory, must do or something bad will
happen,
> then it must not have a due date, it must only become available in my
> "homeworks" context so I can see it appear in my task list.
>
> So my question is:
>
> Is there a way to have a task repeat itself after completion by
> deferring a start date and without having a due date?
>
> All the best
>
> Alex
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