Hello Darryl, Here are a couple of thoughts:
I have the top few levels of my outline structured something like this: >Area of Life (Personal, Home/Family, Work and Community) >> Role (Home DIY, Father, Friends, Electrical Engineer, Functional Safety Specialist... etc) >>> Goal or Project >>>>Sub-Project >>>>>Tasks That way, I can align my projects with my goals and my goals with my roles. Depending on whether I'm at work or it's home time, I can be looking in the overall branch for the relevant area of my life. My Roles (the second level in my hierarchy) are all formatted as folders. This gives me an advantage for setting up filtered views. "TopLevelParent" filters will match with my Area of Life, while "TopLevelFolder" will try to match with my Roles. Under a project, my first item is often a folder, for storing reference notes or a list of project contacts, job codes, etc. All my projects and sub-projects are formatted as "Project". Anyway, that's how I've got my outline set up. There may well be as many different set-ups as there are people in the forum. Stéphane On Monday, 11 June 2018 07:25:44 UTC+1, Darryl Brooks wrote: > > I read a thread on this that was several years old with some good info in > it. Since I am just starting out, I wanted to get this discussion going > again to see how others are utilizing these different components. > > In most, if not all, of the other task managers I have used, you had only > one of these; usually project or parent task. So you used what you had for > everything. I am hoping, if I use MLO, to start with a structure I can grow > with. I know I can change things as I go along, but I also know that I have > a tendency to build on the foundation I put in place. > > In addition to how you use these differently, I would like some > perspective on the best way to start entering tasks toward this > differentiation. Dump everything in the inbox and sort it out as I go or > build a structure of folders/projects/ task-subtasks from the start. > > I tend to have more recurring tasks than anything else, but they can all > be grouped in different ways. One thing I have always put in a project in > other systems is called Housework, which contains a long list of recurring > tasks with different periods. But since this 'project' is (unfortunately) > never complete, should it be a folder or parent task. > > All input appreciated. > > -- 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/20ff6ac3-adfd-4d8e-a511-9a4687cc7954%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
