Here's a painful lesson I learned after a couple of years of getting myself
organized: if you are spending more than a small percentage of your time
managing your tasks (or worse, managing your task management system) as
opposed to completing tasks, then your system isn't working.
I feel like giving a proper answer to your query would require fully
describing my task management process which, over the years, has gotten
quite complex. That would take more time than I'm willing to spend on task
management, sorry.
I'll just describe one thing, how I have ended up using the star. It is
pretty much the inverse of someday/never. Many of my tasks are unavailable
at any particular time because of dependencies, future dates, closed
contexts, proximity requirements and other constraints. Those that are
available generally have some sense of priority (coded as importance) that
determines what goes first. Looking at the class of all unconstrained
tasks, there are some I would be happy to work on right now provided only
that everything with a higher priority had been completed. Those get a
star. The unstarred tasks will appear on focused lists like waiting tasks,
annual routines, catch up on phone calls but will not appear on everyday
what-should-I-do-next lists.
On November 29, 2019 01:15:49 boatshed36 <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi again Dwight
Sorry, I was sloppy in my request earlier this morning. What i should have
said was "if you are *not* using the control template, or if you have
customised it, would please describe your setup.
Warm regards/gary
On 29 Nov. 2019 at 4:56 am, Dwight <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi, Ken. My daily routine works sort of like what you describe. None of the
tasks are repeating tasks; they are one-time tasks in a repeating folder.
Some of the tasks have a time-of-day context like @afternoon. The
@afternoon context is open noon to 6pm every day, closed all other times.
Every morning when I first access MLO, I mark yesterday's occurrence of the
daily routine completed, and MLO regenerates the tasks, but the afternoon
tasks remain inactive because the context is closed. At noon all of the
afternoon tasks activate. Some get completed and fall off of the list of
active tasks. Other tasks remain uncompleted and fall of of the active list
at 6pm when the afternoon context closes.
The next day the cycle repeats and at noon all of the afternoon tasks
activate, irrespective of how they ended the day before. Tasks that can be
done any time of day do not need a time-of-day context. Others might be
@morning, @evening or even @weekday or @weekend.
-Dwight
On November 14, 2019 11:52:22 Stéph <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello Ken.
In MLO, if you miss a due date the task becomes overdue. It's then a manual
task to reassign a new date.
The only other feature is recurring tasks, so once you check off a task it
can regenerate straight away with the next date in the sequence, or it can
be set to regenerate after a time delay.
I'd love to see some scripting or more options, so that we have more
control over how new tasks are generated and what dates, categories and
flags they inherit, but I don't know of any plans to do that, yet.
Stéphane
On Thursday, 14 November 2019 09:12:02 UTC, Ken Heronheart wrote:
Many todo programs have an "optionally due" option which will automatically
roll over missed tasks to there next due date. For instance, if I miss my
"Morning Exercise" task it will just roll it over to the next morning.
Does MyLO have anything similar?
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