I too have been using the David Allen GTD 'on-the-fly' method. But I have to admit that it hasn't been working particularly well for me.
On balance I think the there definitely *IS* some merit in putting certain things into a calendar of some sort - and it needs to be something that lets you generate an nice *visual overview* of what I've got coming up, as I find that helps me generate energy(!) To be fair to GTD, without any doubt I am not executing GTD very correctly. Nonethlesspersonally I find with GTD that it's far too easy to get sucked into details. And although I have started getting into MLO's Goals more (which definitely helps) I would definitely appreciate much better calendaring functionality. Personally I still use Outlook (2013) with MS Exchange which after many years of use I am now used to. But I find it to be a pretty hateful application. Although it's great to sync emails across all my devices... what I dislike about Outlook is: a) Use of colours is extremely primitive - limited range; limited syncing; hard to see visually what day it it. Even seeing which row you have selected is stupidly hard. b) After *several* hours of research over a number of years it turns out that if you have a high resolution screen and have therefore increased the Windows 'DPI' in order to make text legible, then Outlook deliberately blurs any inserted into the email. Unthinkably, it actually blurs the original image! Even more unthinkably, there is absolutely nothing you can do to stop Outlook behaving like this. [groan] Microsoft have had this problem for over a decade and apparently are not going to fix it any time soon. c) Fwiw, the big problem with using Exchange for email is that there is a very limited range of mobile phone email apps that work with it. J On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 7:14 PM, Elizabeth Lindsay <technotig...@gmail.com> wrote: > My reply is quite late, but hopefully you might still find it useful. For > me, it would be a disservice to all I have on my plate if I made a weekly > plan. I much prefer to follow Getting Things Done (GTD) and make decisions > more on the fly after each completed task. The closest I come to a weekly > plan is that on Friday when I do my review, I star items that need my focus > the following week. Each time I'm ready for a new task, I look at the tab > by due date first to see if I have anything critical due that day or soon. > Then I look at the starred tab. Lastly, I use the context tab. This way, > each time I am deciding what to work on, I'm getting the most bang for my > buck. > > On Friday, September 4, 2015 at 2:40:30 PM UTC-5, Holmes245 wrote: >> >> Hey guys, I've been using MLO for the past several years, at least since >> 2010, I believe. However, I'm at a point where I want to plan out the next >> week but I find that it's hard to do with MLO. I recently watched a video >> by Brett McKay from the Art of Manliness called "How to Plan Your Week >> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNxLNY6yxRI>" which requires one to >> look at what needs to be done. One of the tools he used as an example is a >> calendaring tool. The benefit of the calendar is that you can see your week >> overview. With MLO, I can't do this since one can't see repeating tasks. Is >> there any setup or ideas that you guys would have for using MLO with >> something like Google Calendar to plan out one's week and what needs to get >> done? I wish they implemented together. I have found one web task outliner >> that does but have had problems with tasks updating in the outliner when I >> change them in Google calendar. This probably indicates that I may have to >> move another tool for practical purposes since MLO doesn't have a calendar >> but wanted to check in with you all for ideas before I did. I may not be >> using MLO the best way. Perhaps I should only be sticking to projects >> (tasks with more than one action for me) and try not to use it to keep >> every thing I need or want to do in it? >> >> Thanks. >> Joel >> > -- > 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 mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/cdb754be-7670-4263-a8db-7c1d022a99eb%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/cdb754be-7670-4263-a8db-7c1d022a99eb%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. 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