I’ve been using SchedPal for a few weeks now - or trying to. DIslikes: maybe it’s not my app choice, maybe it’s just me - I still find myself overshooting the time slot deadlines and rescheduling tasks on a regular basis.
LIkes: It does a really good job of quantifying and giving a reality check of what you can do in a day. You have all your work tasks, you press the “schedule” button, and then you see that not everything fits within the time available, deadlines and due dates that you have. So you prioritise, or set expectations. That takes a lot of cognitive load off me. However - due to my human nature of pushing stuff back and pressing the ‘reschedule’ button, I was pondering on the difference between this, and the manual scheduling nature of MLO with Gcal. I think I still like the SkedPal approach because it does do the organising for me - and time spent in the tool doing task organisation is a major issue (or lack of time, which then means the tool becomes disorganised and you then lose trust in it). It means I can trust the system - press the button, hit reschedule, if it flags up anything that doesn’t fit, then I can drag stuff into my evening , push back some due dates - and not worry about going through everything again to check that it still all makes sense. On the downside, as you say, it doesn’t prioritise dependencies before the dependant task, and it also shows both tasks and sub tasks. So in a large volume of tasks, that’s going to be a major stumbling book. OTOH, I do keep coming back to GTD and next task in context in MLO. It is so quick to use. It’s great on ‘next task’ action, it’s just frustratin that it offers no ability to check everything fits in he schedule. Fd -- 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/29fce077-0b21-4a81-945a-a446c8814e5c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
