Dear all
For me, if a task has a Due Date - when that date comes round, it'll either * get completed, or * get deferred to a future date, or * have its Due Date removed If a task doesn't have a Due Date - it's not time-critical, and is therefore a Someday task I still don't use automatic sorting - figuring out how it works is a Someday task My Outline has some 2,000 active tasks (of about 20,000 in total) Each year I manage 4 or 5 large projects of some 500 tasks each, plus dozens of smaller projects and routines I love that MLO lets me organise my life the way I want to, and doesn't force me to work to someone else's plan Regards Wol From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Elizabeth Lindsay Sent: 30 December 2017 14:29 To: MyLifeOrganized <[email protected]> Subject: [MLO] Re: Newbie question: How well would MLO match my requirements? (list provided) I see a couple of other folks have replied prior to be seeing this, but I felt the need to chime in as well. I've been using MLO for many years, am a BETA tester, and follow GTD. From my perspective: 1. Only a project needs a status, and MLO has that. 2. All tasks availability can be managed either: 1. Using an "@Someday" context to show it is not for now (and I have MLO automatically format them in a color that appears greyed out) 2. Linked to another tasks that has to be done first and therefore this particular task is not active 3. The child of another tasks, therefore this one has to be done first and not the parent 4. In a list of tasks that are checked to be "completed in order" 5. Adding a start date to not show things prior to a particular date/time In all those cases, my list of active tasks is showing me what is available to me. Then I use contexts to provide my GTD contexts. As David replied, I too manage hundreds plus of tasks on Android and Windows and follow the GTD system. I've even added my own custom icons to make it quick for my eyes to see various types of activities. I wish you all the best! Elizabeth On Friday, December 29, 2017 at 7:15:12 AM UTC-6, John . Smith wrote: In the end, having tried MLO in about 10 different ways, and having spent countless hours fiddling and configuring MLO, I eventually found MLO to be unusable for GTD if you have fairly large numbers of tasks (e.g. 200+). In particular the lack of a field that could be used as a Status field (that unlike flags would 'inherit' sensibly) was a deal breaker. It was a huge shame because MLO is astonishingly powerful in so many ways... but there you go. -- 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] <mailto:[email protected]> . To post to this group, send email to [email protected] <mailto:[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/bddb4c46-77a0-428e-aaf7-58 d8db391ce2%40googlegroups.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/bddb4c46-77a0-428e-aaf7-5 8d8db391ce2%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 [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/!%26!AAAAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAAAEAQF7ewp8NNmiMDGuqc/4rigAAAEAAAALYj7YBzWWtLrv6oovHbFhEBAAAAAA%3D%3D%40gilbraith.co.uk. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
