Hi all Apologies for length of this question- you probably don’t need the context to give best advice, but I felt need to spell out...
How best to combine tasks & events in MLO to stay on top of my highly fluid job? I’m a real estate agent, so therefore “mobile” a large amount of the time and constantly having to accomodate appointment requests that I must input to my iPhone calendar immediately so I don’t potentially end up double-booked or missing an appointment. So those are periods in my week when I cannot be working on “tasks”. The appointment itself often triggers me to create a task to prepare something for it too. I try to keep to an “ideal week” with blocked out times to ring fence certain core activities, but even those can be put under pressure if a crisis erupts. Incidentally I rely on the iPhone calendar for appointment entries as it seems best compromise for dealing with head office meeting invites that come through my Outlook MS Exchange account, and Google Calendar which my family (and sometimes clients) use for their appointments and which I need to see at same time when scheduling my own “after hours” meeting requests. I don’t have a simple 5 day 9-5 work week, So here’s my question... Unless it’s an incidental task that doesn’t require any prep and is no more than around 10 minutes (eg check car tyre pressures), or something to do while doing something else that is a distinct time commitment (eg task to buy birthday card while doing 1hr long grocery shop), how do people record and schedule in a task that requires significant time, but which isn’t an appointment? How to use MLO to block out time for tasks, which time period however does not appear as an event in my iPhone calendar? I’m trying to avoid having to check both MLO tasks coming up for the amount of time I need to do the tasks each time I insert another meeting appointment in iPhone calendar. Phew - thanks for anyone who read through to the end of this and has pearls of wisdom to cut through my muddled thinking and/or inadequate use of MLO!! -- 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/CAA5U%3DSr1Mg%3DB%3D82jo128BO_%2B4Rm_PADWdKLDHEuBmHL1aA0tog%40mail.gmail.com.
