Hi Regarding your first question. Here is a simple trick which i use. All tasks which have to be done today/tomorrow/asap are marked with STAR. Then in the starred view, i can rearange them.The tasks which require my imediate attention i put to the top of the list. When a new urgent task appears, i just add it in the starred view directly to the top of the list. (to do that: go to the starred view, select a task which is at the top of the list, tap + button, enter the task name. save. your new task will have the second position from top. just move it to become first. that's all). br Andrew
Issues with short-term handling: As new urgent tasks come in, I don’t > trust MLO to help me fit them into my day. I think this is because if I > quickly add them to my inbox, i may not review and file tasks in my inbox > on a busy day until well after the task was due. Also, if I DO file it, I > again am almost certain it’ll disappear into a big backlog of overdue > forgotten tasks, and again, I won’t complete it in time. So how can I keep > ‘new, current tasks’ in view and still trust in GTD? > среда, 5 сентября 2018 г., 9:39:58 UTC+3 пользователь Damo Skees написал: > > I love MLO, and keep coming back to it, whatever else I try, but wonder if > anyone has any tips on how to address my remaining process issues. > > As a quick background, I only use the iPhone app as I moved from Windows > to MacOS. Most of my time is spent throwing tasks into the inbox from email > triage via the email parser, or via the pop-out Add to Inbox button. > > Issues with short-term handling: As new urgent tasks come in, I don’t > trust MLO to help me fit them into my day. I think this is because if I > quickly add them to my inbox, i may not review and file tasks in my inbox > on a busy day until well after the task was due. Also, if I DO file it, I > again am almost certain it’ll disappear into a big backlog of overdue > forgotten tasks, and again, I won’t complete it in time. So how can I keep > ‘new, current tasks’ in view and still trust in GTD? > > Issues with high-level view: I can’t really get a sense of the overall > progress and forecast effort of a project, or all my projects. Yes, I know > there’s a project type, and a progress bar, but that’s just for one > project. I’d really like to be able to look top-down at my > work/life/personal development/admin folders and see for my projects for > the week/month/year, where I am and where I have to go. I do also > appreciate there are Goals, and I do use them and find them effective, but > only at a tactical level, not at a high-level planning/accomplishment view. > > No month-by-month goals: I do use goals, but it’s notable that the > “month” goal is only for the current month. I would love a way to view the > monthly goals for the previous and upcoming months - both for planning, and > for tracking/achievement. I’ve thought about using a mind map view with a > parent node per month in something like MindMeister/Meisertask, or > Asana/Trello Kanban boards, one per month. It’s like having 13 of the 43 > folders - one per month. As before, MLO is very tactically focused, and > doesn’t have a top-down view. > > Planned vs due date: I’m currently using SkedPal, and it does have a > “plan for today/tomorrow/etc” setting AS WELL AS due date. Many task > managers do, these days. So how do people do this in MLO? > > Clunky date setting: I find that I can’t really use due dates proactively, > such as setting which day I will do the task on in order to use the > calendar view in the iPhone app for ‘loading’ each day, because it’s > relatively slow and clunky to set due dates (compared to many apps having a > “defer until tomorrow/next week/etc) quick button. I therefore find that if > I did try setting due dates for, say, 20 tasks, and the times start to blow > out, I now have to spend time going through each one of 20 tasks and > manually try to move the date back to a realistic timeframe, for every one > of those tasks. Granted, it is easier to do this visually with the Gcal > sync, using the calendar to drag and drop - MUCH easier, in fact - but it’s > still an effort that’s increases with however many tasks you have dates > for, in each daily review. How do others handle this? > Many thanks, > > > Damo -- 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/9f0117cd-4680-4120-845e-56d7dd1bdc5c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
