Since SRhyse your are attacking me personally, I shall put some personal perspective here:
1. I do not pretend to be attempting to set up a "purist" GTD system. I am semi-dyslexic and I read extremely slowly I find the flat-earth system of GTD unusable. I need shape, hierarchy and colour - only then do I become productive. 2. I used MLO for about 12 months last year. During that time I was pretty disciplined whereby I had phases where I would get on with stuff and phases where I would attempt to build something usable using the MLO platform. 3. In hind-sight overall yes I have spent too much time fiddling with the system. But only in phases. 4. I haven't fiddle with the system for several months now. Instead, I have been using some completely different software. But that software has its own limitations that are starting to grate. Given that MLO Windows (finally!) has a new version about to appear thought it would be worth a second look. 5. Yes, I shouldn't have spent so much time on MLO, I should have abandoned it much earlier. My problem was that it was so powerful - there was so much to like, and it just kept feeling like I was just about to crack the problem. Over that time every couple of months or so I tried to get it to handle changes in task status in a different manner. In the end I came up with about 6 completely different ways (using flags, tags, dragging tasks between folders, moving between folders, various types of markup... various types of Advanced filtering.... you name it I tried it) But with each new way of working came some irritating unintended consequence. 6. During my time away from MLO, I have come across a number of people who heartily agree with my take on MLO. In fact, a two different people were so frustrated with MLO (and other existing tools) that they are both writing their own tools from scratch. > You’ve created an aspect of GTD that does not exist, Maybe, maybe not No. I just want to: a) *Create a hierarchy* of task by subject b) For both individual tasks and whole projects, I want an easy way to move them between* different statuses*. c) The ability to extract these tasks into *flat lists.* These lists need to be separated by - *Area of Life*, and by - *Status *and by - *Context*. d) The ability to mark up individual tasks into "*do today*" flat lists which I can *manually sort*. PLUS IDEALLY: e) Some way of marking up tasks that are urgent/very important. f) Some easy way of adding Context (ideally using hotkeys) to a task g) Some way of using colour to show status. etc h) Some way of only showing the next task (or ideally N tasks) per project. Although several have come very close, I have yet to find any software tool that lets me accomplish the above. > and one which no program can deal with because it’s entirely > made up, convoluted, and already accomplished by any > program featuring text entry. SRhyse I think you need to decide whether you are arguing whether what I seek is impossible or already accomplished by any program with text entry. > I said it sounds like you’re futzing around with programs to > avoid doing your work or properly dealing with your commitments Absolutely not. I have spent many months now just doing execution of my commitments. TBH, the personal attack contained in your comments sound borderline hysterical. It's almost as if the existing feature set of MLO is practically a religion - a holy cow that can never be criticised. And any nail that sticks up discussing constructive suggestions is hammered down by the keyboard warriors. J On Sunday, January 7, 2018 at 11:46:39 PM UTC, SRhyse wrote: > > It’s kinda hard to fix a problem that’s user generated. You’re making > distinctions that don’t actually exist in GTD. GTD as written is using a > series of flat lists that are concrete and distinct when it comes to task > management. You group them in whatever way makes it easiest for you to work > with them, and then you work down your lists while adding to or subtracting > from them to keep them current with your present reality and decision > making so you don’t have to store all of that in your head. > > You can set things up in a hierarchy however you’d like in MLO—which is > not a GTD thing because it adds overhead and mixes tasks with project > planning—and then tag them to appear on stand alone generated lists or > across multiple lists. Or you can make flat lists in MLO and move tasks > between them however you’d like. You’ve created an aspect of GTD that does > not exist, and one which no program can deal with because it’s entirely > made up, convoluted, and already accomplished by any program featuring text > entry. > > There are all manner of things I’d love MLO to be developed to do or > handle, but that does not appear to be your issue. I remember before you > joined the beta team, I said it sounds like you’re futzing around with > programs to avoid doing your work or properly dealing with your > commitments. It still sounds like you’re doing that. It’s a problem > everyone can relate to, but that does seem to be the problem. -- 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. 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