Thanks Andrew, That's assuring, that is pretty similar to what I do....
D On Wednesday, 5 September 2018 08:59:44 UTC+1, Andrei Bacean wrote: > > 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/5574baa1-c873-4cd1-866e-df6fcf942d26%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
