Hello Dwight, It is an adjustment but for the whole time I have been using MLO I still haven't gotten used to other views.
All the best Alexandre Jesus On 17 November 2016 at 14:53:54, Dwight ([email protected]) wrote: > 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 > > -- > 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] <javascript:> > <mailto:[email protected] <javascript:>>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > <javascript:> > > <mailto:[email protected] <javascript:>>. > Visit this group at > > https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized > <https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized>. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/4fee35df-9b67-450b-bfdd-caae56ed0d5d%40googlegroups.com > < > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/4fee35df-9b67-450b-bfdd-caae56ed0d5d%40googlegroups.com> > > > > < > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/4fee35df-9b67-450b-bfdd-caae56ed0d5d%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer > < > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/4fee35df-9b67-450b-bfdd-caae56ed0d5d%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>>. > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > -- > 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[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/93b0781c-8153-40e7-bfe8-1a63c9969d30%40googlegroups.com > < > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/93b0781c-8153-40e7-bfe8-1a63c9969d30%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mylifeorganized/mNPr46T9Klk/unsubscribe. > > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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/f1e7ee07-f8d2-9bb0-d9e9-ae8a7ae72118%40dwightarthur.us. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. 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