Hi Joel,
the GTDish way would be to move the "buy milk" into a folder "errands"
and/or context "@groceries". Then whenever you go to the supermarket,
you look up that context as your shopping list. If you tend to forget to
go to the supermarket, you can add a recurrent task with a reminder to
MLO or to your calender.
Generally, the idea of GTD is to not schedule too much. You put
everything that absolutely needs to be done at a certain time (like
meetings) in your calendar. The rest remains flexible.
You pick the things that you want to do based on importance, urgency,
and current context. You also use other criteria such as available time,
you current mood, energy. (MLO has properties for "min time" and "max
time", and you can create contexts like "@tired" "@focused" for things
that can be done with low energy or that need high focus).
MLO helps you with views like "Next Actions by Context" to pick the
right action. If you like, you can pick the things you want to do today
with a star, and then work your day in the Starred View.
-- Chris
Am 02.08.2017 um 03:24 schrieb Holmes245:
My problem with is may lie in the fact that I don't properly
understand the GTD process. As I said, I'm still reading through the
book but here is a simple use-case scenario of what I'm talking
about:
I realize that I need to buy more milk as I'm out so I put that in
my MLO inbox. I know I need to do it this week but I don't know when
at the moment so I enter it in MLO. When I get home and I'm doing my
daily review, I see the 'Purchase milk" task and look at my calendar.
I notice that it's something I can do in the morning since nothing
scheduled until 1pm. What do I do? Do I enter "Buy milk" in my
calendar for a specific time? If so, isn't that double entry? What do
I do with the task in MLO? If the hard-dated task is part of a
project that I did have to schedule, I would have to enter the task
in my calendar. After it was done, do I check it off in MLO?
I guess I don't like the double-entry aspect of anything that I
would need to date on my calendar which is why I wish MLO would 2-way
sync with Google Calendar or Outlook. Is this the proper way though
that GTD would be worked out between a calendar and a task manager? >
> Joel
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