Alright, so I know some of us have private things in our MLO lists, but I'm looking for this post to open up the secrecy of how you structure your personal MLO. In an effort to share I've provided some pics to get an idea of how I personally use it. You can always blur tasks that you want to keep private with a quick online tool like this ( http://www196.lunapic.com/editor/ ).
It took me forever to figure out how I wanted to structure my Projects and Folders so that they weren't a total mess. I finally stumbled across this amazing post <http://andrewminer.tumblr.com/omnifocus> showing how to use Omnifocus effectively by setting up folders by ROLES in your life. See the picture below. <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-iEw6mHDA8xA/WOuhwbHklHI/AAAAAAAAAxM/zmiPbXsEsCUezB0t6Tw-ZBk_Dccg1keRQCLcB/s1600/omni.jpg> After I had that revelation, I modified it slightly to better fit my life's priorities and ended up with this... <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-yAM6I5j3ryQ/WOuiQkbMKKI/AAAAAAAAAxU/5hxL9F940A47tLpZTL4nHn0X9teQovpEACLcB/s1600/mlo.jpg> This is a cool configuration I've used for the last 2 years. The best thing about using this type of folder hierarchy is that if you prioritize these top level folders into what is most important to you then all your tasks in your default views will 'default' to this priority. So for example, if I looked for tasks due in the next 7 days it would first show me my '12 Week Year' tasks, then my 'Husband' tasks, then my 'Spiritual' tasks, etc. That is super cool! With this said, however, I've seen other people use simpler structures like just 2 folders Work and Personal with much success and many variations apart from this. The biggest drawback I've found with using this folder hierarchy is that there are many cases where a task could easily fall into more than one folder and you're left with either needing to duplicate the task (BAD) or only seeing it in one of the folders. For example, I may personally want to work on "Improving my Python coding skills", but should that go in the Hobbyist folder? Or perhaps Career Development? Or maybe Education? And if I need to "Do the dishes", should that go into the "Husband" folder or the "Owner" folder, or the "Misc" folder? I also found a problem with identifying tasks that were relavant to do NOW vs. seeing things that I may someday want to do. Grouping them by context can work, but for me using folders seemed to work better, so in each major folder I have a 2 sub-folders. I keep projects and single tasks that I'm actively working on this week inside the major folder and then sort tasks/projects that are not in progress into a folder called "Someday/Definitely (But Not This Week)" folder and tasks that I have not started or even committed myself to doing into the "Someday/Maybe" folder. I then hide the 2 sub folders from the task list using the "Hide branch in To-Do" option so that none of those tasks show up in my views unless I move them into the active workspace in the folder. See below for a better understanding. <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-H4a8UL-YBHs/WOumfL74klI/AAAAAAAAAxk/eTR2XTlbAbIUewb2F9K5ycVByo9QDhl-QCLcB/s1600/mlo%2Bsubtasks.png> Please post a picture on how organize your MLO tasks folders so we can get some other ideas! Do you organize by ROLE like I do? Maybe by EFFORT? Or perhaps by TIME? Let us know! Share your structure! :) -Mike -- 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/efb98d18-7c74-4d48-be13-11be77e43b77%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
