Interesting idea. I might play around with this concept at some point.
On Thursday, 15 February 2018 12:25:17 UTC, John . Smith wrote: > > Hello > > Here is a little tip for you GTD method users. > > Problem: > In order for GTD to work well, it's important for all your actions to have > at least one Contexts. But during a busy day, it's easy to forget to do so. > > Solution: > What I do is work from the Active Actions and make them *slightly hard to > read* until they have a Context. > This keeps visually reminding/nagging me to add a Context until I have > done so. > > > Details: > > 1. I set the base colour of my tasks to a pale, slightly annoyingly pale > colour. > Tools ==> Options ==> Themes and Formatting ==> Task Format ==> Active > Tasks ==> Font ==> Font colour ==> something pale (i.e. pale green would be > "$0099DD99") > > 2. I also set the automatic formatting to a more readable colour if the > task has a context of any sort. > Tools ==> Options ==> Automatic Formatting ==> Add [Add a new rule fairly > high up the list of rules] ==> Condition ==> "(Context is not empty) AND > (ActiveAction)" > Format ==> Font colour a darker colour (e.g. "$00007700" would be a dark, > easily read green) > > ALSO > I have now set up a hotkey for almost every Context-Tag. They all start > with "Control+Alt" as there seemed to be fewer default MLO hotkeys using > that space. > e.g. "Control+Alt+E" toggles the Errands context on/off. > > If you have forgotten which Context-Tag hotkeys you have set up, they are > all visible when you right-click the Context column > > Fwiw, because I sometimes use several Context-Tags at once for my tasks, I > find it easier to see what's going on visually, so I use the Icon column > for this - which is also set up withing Automatic Formatting. > a) Tick "use icon" > b) Click icon to select the icon you want > c) Set "Icon type" to "Custom" > d) Set the icon position number if you want to space the icons out > e) Set the icon hint to remind yourself what context each icon was for. > (e.g. "@Errands") > > FINALLY > In order to scoop up any tasks that have slipped through the net, I also > have a view to just show tasks which have no Context-tags. > Personally I use: > - Show Actions: Active > - Show hierarchy: No > - The Advanced Filter "Context is empty" > > > Personally, all of the above has rather transformed my MLO life :^D > Hope you find useful. > > J > -- 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/12cc65f1-ba98-47f3-b36c-3bf9e21e41bd%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
