Thanks for sharing your wife's link. Here is how I handle the weekend queue where it actually works for me. It's kind of my way of time blocking like tasks that aren't really huge projects.
I use this for my small annoying network issues that need to be fixed at work but aren't emergencies. I have a parent task called Small Network issues. In that I have subtasks of all the small network issues prioritized in whatever way according to what I want done first whether it is most important or time required. I set that parent tasks to complete subtasks in order. Then in my routines I make a task that reoccurs once or twice a week on a certain day with a link in the notes to this queue. As new tasks come up I make sure that went I add to the queue they go in with the correct priority to the others already in there. You could also hide the queue but I like the top one to show on my list in case I get a minute at another time during the week and want to finish something quick and easy. I also see where that context closed hours would work great here and you wouldn't need the trigger task. I also use this for things like areas I want to declutter, website updates I want to make that are not time sensitive, improvements to my system, procedures I need to document - really any kind of long term maintenance or goal task. I also use for learning - I'm trying to build out text expander so as I come across ideas of how people use it I add to the queue and then I have a trigger tasks for once a week. I'm trying to use Evernote so I have the same thing for that with a queue of tasks of things I want to add to it or something I want to learn about it with a trigger of once a week. I have one for bugs or broken links on our website or company database. I have one for MLO - right now that context closed hours is the first thing in the queue. I have these learning things each set to their own day and I try to move each one forward one day each week. At some point Text Explander will be a team rollout and that will not go out in this list but be a full blown active project. I hope that helps. This works pretty well for me but I would love to hear some other ways people handle this. Thanks, Susannah On Tuesday, July 14, 2020 at 12:35:08 PM UTC-4, Mark Levison wrote: > > Andrey - thanks. > > My naive leaning would be just give me an option not to sync start dates > with the calendar at all. The challenge is that when I use start dates even > my most trivial tasks appear in the calendar. > > I think the bigger issue is that I have over used dates at all in MLO. I > notice that I plan a number of tasks for a weekend. Maybe half of them get > done and then I have to spend time rescheduling them for the next weekend. > Really the weekend task list is a queue, get some stuff done around the > house/garden until we have either achieved something major or we've spent > 4-5 hrs, then relax. In this world view I just want a well ordered queue. I > was using dates as a quick and dirty way to force items to the top of the > queue. > > Much deeper issue - the challenge, I've always had with MLO, its an > incredibly flexible tool that you can get lost in. In an ideal world you > would pay some people to document their personal organization systems that > they have created. Food for thought my wife: > https://yourfinanciallaunchpad.com/ in the context of her business is > helping women create systems to organize money (income -> spending -> > investments). She sees me using MLO and asks should I share it with my > group. Part of me wants to shout from the rooftops yes. The challenge is > that these are normal people - not recovering software developers like > myself. They would get lost. > > I look forward to the MLO guides/stories/scenarios with enough depth to > help people see how to use the app in real life. > > (It is good to be back - don't think I will ever be forum moderator again) > Cheers > Mark > > On Monday, 13 July 2020 at 06:58:56 UTC-4 Andrey Tkachuk (MLO) wrote: > >> Hi Mark, >> >> Welcome back! Nice to see your in the group again :) >> >> Yes for now start/due date/time of the tasks are synced to the calendar >> as start/due date/time as well. What would be your proposition? An option >> to not sync start date and use mlo due as start and due for the calendar? >> I.e. create an appointment with zero length? >> >> Thanks, >> Andrey. >> >> -- 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/3b0d09a5-a1de-47c9-86ab-603e93ec1501o%40googlegroups.com.
