Thanks for your comments. The major achievement of Allen and GTD was to emphasise capturing all tasks. No-one had worried about making the task list complete until he came along (they just focused on what was important). He may also have initiated the 2 minute rule but he does not build on earlier time management writers who argued for batching up small and like tasks and thus making them have a time period that counts
I think you were far too quick to dismiss appointments. The kind I was talking about belong in GTD. I wrote: This overlooks the frequent problem that TASKS [emphasis added] have deadlines which are not days but also times e.g., 10am, 4pm that are before or after the traditional close of business time of 6am, midnight etc.This is not just a weakness of MLO but most GTD and I cannot understand why it never gets mentioned in reviews. I cannot understand why developers havent done something about it because all it requires is a field called "time" or "time due" which would make it parallel with TaskDue. Your suggestion to use context flags for "someday" and "wait" is a common work around but it is a work around not a proper implementation of GTD. Someday and wait status tasks still have a context and using context for someday and wait means they do not show up in the location context for serendipitous action and will get overlooked. My simple suggestion was to have them as tags. They really belong in goals which should be called horizon Thanks for your suggestion to try zoom for workspaces and I will do that tonight I am playing with the tickler some more and will hold my comments on that as I may not have been clear On Monday, 25 November 2019 00:00:37 UTC+11, Christoph wrote: > > > Am 24.11.2019 um 03:57 schrieb [email protected] <javascript:>: > > I also have problems and I think it is because the developer has > > fixated on other implementations of GTD and has not thought about how > > their own design can best implement it > Actually, 15 years ago when the first version of MLO was created in the > age of Palm organizers, GTD existed, but was not yet widely known. The > GTD hype only started a few years later. > > But I think MLO is very well suited for the GTD method. You just need to > decide how you want to map the MLO features to the GTD concepts (you > made some good suggestions here!) and then use everything in a > consistent way (I'm usually struggling with that). > > > 3. Use the TAGS field on the right properties for the GTD types > > "Someday/Maybe" and "Wait/Due from others" > For me "Someday/Maybe" is everything that does not have a goal or a > start/due date, so I don't even need to enter anything specifically for > these tasks. And it's easy to create a view for them. I implemented > "Wait" with a context (I also have special contexts for persons I > frequently delegate to). > > > The tabs that allow Workspaces seems to be underdeveloped. I cannot > > select particular folders to appear in a workspace. > Actually, you can create a view that filters certain folders (combined > with OR), and then assign that view to a workspace. A much simpler > solution is to use the zoom feature. You can have workspaces with preset > zoom on different folders. > > > One area also that is weak is review. It needs a user-customisable > > tickler feature to allow selection for the future based on start date > > or due date with or without lead time . For example, I would like to > > be able to see what is scheduled for next month but the rules do not > > allow this to be algorithmically described > That should actually be possible with > "StartDateTime", "in the next ? months", "1". > > > Finally, like many GTD implementations it forgets appointments by > > assuming these are in calendars > It helps that you can now sync with Google calendar. But actually, GTD > does not care about the "hard landscape" (the appointments in the > calendar), it cares more about what you do when you are "free". > > -- Christoph > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/dc5626b4-fb1e-436b-8960-81f6943d55d9%40googlegroups.com.
