I agree it is a good idea with this kind of examples. I am still in the process of setting up a lot of structure, so I don't have something very illustrative to share yet.
I assume those "roles" you found are inspired by Covey's 7 habits or something? Anyway, there are many "lenses" one can apply on life. It can be good for focus to make these kind of "silos" such as work/private or any kind of more refined look. This helps in most tools, because some sort of zoom/focus/filtering is available. Also, if one has a job with any sort of administrative- or office element to it, there will be different (types of) communication lines for action items (electronic or physical). E.g. separate mail systems and of course separate ways to receive physical messages and particles too. That speaks a lot for separating work from private. In reality, my "private" is overarching everything else. And a particular work/job would be a subset of it. So I might separate them as "parallel" in a task management tool but in reality they overlap. For work, the high level strategic planning merges with my private career/entrepreneur plans. Anyway - my view is that no matter what silos or compartments are applied, there will always be some level of overlap. And in most cases, it is useful to be able to reflect that. So while an overall folder structure can separate them for "zooming" etc., I use contexts with inheritance to signify it also. This way, if I am doing e.g. a private project with something, I can also tag it with something under "Work" if I find it relevant. The votes are still out on how to do this best with the tool(s) though. The most "practical" would be to be able to completely work with "zoomed views" into each compartment. But I doubt I can "get away with that" because of the overlaps. My personal structure is not final (I start from the perspective of "private" first) - but "Work" will just be one of several "life activity areas". Spiritual growth and family/love relationships are just as important and will have their own area as well. On Monday, 10 April 2017 17:40:37 UTC+2, Michael Mroczka wrote: > > 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/6c539479-a254-4324-8d4e-8460da8db29f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
