Dear Forum,
My question is regarding the ‘best practices’ or setting up To-Do views to manage your prioritized or upcoming tasks. I am a GTD follower & have used MLO off & on since 2015. I recently am moving back to it from Todoist as I think some of the pros which have been outlined in this forum make it more suitable to a GTD approach. However, while the outline feature is amazing, I struggle with how to best manage and sort my upcoming tasks. Part of the issue is the flexibility and that there is just an endless amount of options and methods to use within MLO. I would be appreciative if any of the long-time MLO users could provide which views they use & stick with (with what filters & grouping is used if you can) in order to monitor & manage your prioritized tasks to identify tasks for this week & today. One of my biggest hangups on Todoist is that it was heavily structured around the Due Date concept, which eventually pushed me to stop using it as I had to move-forward my un-completed tasks every day, which really kills your motivation after awhile My current plan is to leverage goal to identify the time horizon & Star to identify items for today. I would then like to optionally use Due Date (for items that really require it) and Start Date in my views for this week/today in order to pull these tasks in (regardless of goal/star). One feature that I do like is to be able to plan for tasks for a weekend or a particular day when I know I will have some time with my kids occupied & have bandwidth to e.g., run errands or complete specific tasks. My folder structure already is split by areas of focus / role with projects underneath. I have never had much need to use Context in the GTD-sense for location tracking as my folders already give me this sense & my ‘work’ can be accomplished at work or home via my laptop. I’d like to understand from others if there are pros/cons that you have seen of using Start Date, Due Date, Flag, Context for the purpose of prioritizing upcoming tasks? Also, do people actually use the MLO prioritization algorithm for prioritizing tasks or typically go with custom defined views? Also, I am not clear from the help material on how the google calendar sync works. Is it required that I maintain both a start & end date in order for my tasks to sync into google calendar? Thanks for any assistance you can give on this topic, John -- 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/6c4d26ce-39cc-4798-aea6-965939c278ae%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
