Thanks for responding Chris. Okay, I see what you're saying. That does correspond to what I've been reading so I will be making more use of the other features that MLO has had for this. I was using the starred view for actions I was currently focused on but I do like that idea of working my day out of the starred view. Thanks again Chris.
Joel On Wednesday, August 2, 2017 at 5:44:32 AM UTC-4, Christoph wrote: > > 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 > -- 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/2f0ba6f9-53b9-4fa7-9e01-01452202d5b7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
