To me, a task is a task and only a task. A task is not a meeting, or a haircut, or a doctor appointment, they are calendar events. A calendar never has tasks and a task list never has appointments. A task almost always contains notes, and my tasks are almost always a direct result of an email which almost always has an attachment that could even be part of the task itself like a spreadsheet. So MLO was never "perfect" for me, it was never a one stop shop and I do not think it can ever be a one stop shop. There are just too many choices, and apps, and situations to be all encompassing. So my calendars tell me where I have to be at what time. When I am not involved in a calendar event and have time for "work" then I can only DO 1 thing at a time which means I can only do a task or a next action on a task. A task CAN be time sensitive, but all the task manager has to do is alert me to that fact. To do something, I probably need my notes or email or attachments so they are contained in my Evernote. A third party app (taskclone) allows me to tie together these notes and tasks automatically. So I do not need MLO to be "everything" I love that it works for me the way it does. Consequently I have pretty much stopped exploring what MLO can do and can rarely answer an very complicated how do I do this because I never run into that situation myself. I used to years ago get so frustrated with all any user bashing everything MLO could not do or did not contain and would constantly try to "champion" MLO from the standpoint of; it can only do what it does you just have to figure out how to change the way you do things. However, the developers (in my opinion) embraced all the requests and set about trying to make MLO everything to everyone. As such it is simply remarkable what it can do. I read peoples variations and how they use it for them and marvel at the complexities it will support. I have also grown from the standpoint that I need to be satisfied that my way works for me and I do not need to understand everyone else or why they do what they do. I am much more relaxed and accepting because of this. Mlo and I finally have come to terms with each other on what each of use contributes to the workday. I have no need for anything else.
so my vote fwiw is that you should not keep tasks as notes (unless that works for you :)....) On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Steve Kunkel <kunkel...@gmail.com> wrote: > I feel like I already have too many apps that I use continuously through > the day, so for me, keeping my notes in MLOw makes sense. My own system is > that things are mostly Projects or Tasks. Usually a Project (which is also > a "project" in the David Allen sense) will have it's own notes and have > it's own subtasks. A subtask of a project NEVER has it's own notes > though. This is because I might have 100 or more projects in a year, and I > keep them (and their notes) for archival purposes. I cull off the subtasks > when the notes get archived though. Otherwise I'd have thousands and > thousands of untouched MLO branches in my main working outline. > > I should point out that I don't really use my notes organizing/planning. > Mostly I just use them to track progress on the project. > > -- > 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 mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. > 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/9862361e-a258-40a5-b5c6-a9909c0f6496%40googlegroups. > com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/9862361e-a258-40a5-b5c6-a9909c0f6496%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 the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. 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/CAHmP9kXyGwzFYxyduOJW8mgJokKn9n%2B92xWqdiUsWyF98dSg7Q%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
