RE: [MLO] Preventing bottlenecks due to conflicting/crashing project deadlines

2011-01-23 Thread Richard Collings
Thanks for the update on SmartPlans - won't waste time on that one in the short term. Toms Planner does not provide any mechanism for entering times and calculating day by day or week by week workloads. It is just a visual planner but I find having a visual plan which I can eyeball to see

[MLO] Bug (possible): Completing a task for which there is an open reminder causes MLO to lose focus

2011-01-23 Thread Richard Collings
One thing that is very irritating about MLO is that if a reminder fires so that you have the reminder window open and you then switch to the main MLO window and clear the item which has caused the reminder to fire, the main window loses focus (it disappears). It doesn't always do this (can't

Re: [MLO] Preventing bottlenecks due to conflicting/crashing project deadlines

2011-01-23 Thread Neal
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 5:27 AM, Richard Collings r...@rcollings.co.ukwrote: I think it is partly the GTD mindset that says (as far as I understand) “don’t bother with forward planning it is a waste of time.”. I don't think anybody has told you to NOT to bother with forward planning. I think

RE: [MLO] Preventing bottlenecks due to conflicting/crashing project deadlines

2011-01-23 Thread Richard Collings
A question and observation... Question: so how do you do your forward planning? Observation: I agree all the issues you identify are issues which would need to be addressed in some way but those ways include not using the facility. For example, I have significantly reduced my use of

Re: [MLO] Digest for mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com - 4 Messages in 2 Topics

2011-01-23 Thread DD's Gmail
Dont know if this will help, but has anyone tried an MLO / OUTLOOK /TASKLINE combo? http://www.taskline.com/ On 23 January 2011 21:34, mylifeorganized+nore...@googlegroups.commylifeorganized%2bnore...@googlegroups.com wrote: Today's Topic Summary Group:

[MLO] Re: Preventing bottlenecks due to conflicting/crashing project deadlines

2011-01-23 Thread Mike T
On Jan 23, 3:27 am, Richard Collings r...@rcollings.co.uk wrote: I think it is partly the GTD mindset that says (as far as I understand) don't bother with forward planning it is a waste of time..   This works fine for things like household tasks where there are no particular deadlines but

[MLO] Re: Preventing bottlenecks due to conflicting/crashing project deadlines

2011-01-23 Thread Mike T
On Jan 23, 6:22 pm, Mike T kenr...@gmail.com wrote: In fact Allen says that one reason people are so enthused when they first start down the GTD path is that for perhaps the first time they actually see all the things they have committed to laid out in front of them. To make this clearer, I

Re: [MLO] Re: Preventing bottlenecks due to conflicting/crashing project deadlines

2011-01-23 Thread Dwight
I'm not much of a GTD expert. But I believe that there's a misunderstanding or misquote. I believe that GTD suggests a better way to do forward planning, and that better way is to collect all your tasks and obligations in one place, identify those that have actual timing constraints, identify