AndreasD Two interesting articles. Thanks for the links.
In terms of the points you make: - a) Unless I'm reading it wrong the proposed change is, in fact, the exact opposite of feeling easy with a bad habit. It's probably not even about feeling bad though, it's about flagging constant postponements and, more importantly, prompting a review of why this is happening. b) Appreciate the arguments about keeping dates for real/hard deadlines but ultimately, if left long enough, most things fall into that category and acquire a deadline even if they didn't start with one - it's the old urgent v important debate. Besides, in my experience, a lot of "deadlines" are actually arbitrary and the imposition of someone else's priorities. So you're really only talking about events but just because something is an event doesn't always mean it's a top priority. Personally, I use dates not to prioritise but to try and plan my workload for the day. If you think about it everybody effectively attaches a do today date (even in GTD) the moment they start working on a task in a list of active tasks. The difference then becomes when and with what frequency you review the complete list rather than whether you date a task or not. Regards, Ken On Mar 1, 2:39 pm, AndreasD <[email protected]> wrote: > As a GTD user and a great procrastinator, I strongly dislike this > idea. > a) > The last thing a procastinator needs is a tool to feel easy with a bad > habit. I have enough facitities to *not* do things in time (and feel > guilty afterwards) by myself, thank you. > b) > MLO is focused on GTD, and in GTD due dates are *deadlines*, not > should-be-done-until dates. If you are able to accomplish a task > *after* its due date without failing, chances are you subliminally > faked a due date to provide *priority*. > Read this article (e. g.) to understand why using fake due dates are > bad for your peace of > mind:http://toddmundt.com/blog/2008/09/01/gtd-priorities-and-fake-due-dates/ > And maybe this about the difference between "do date" and "due > date":http://forums.omnigroup.com/showthread.php?t=2585 > > On 26 Feb., 21:17, dermot <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Many of us have a tendency to procrastinate and not completing tasks > > on due date. I'll like to be able to create a "procrastination filter" > > to know whick tasks I keep putting off so I force attention on them. > > > The implementation would be simple: > > > 1. For a new task set a "bump count" to 0. > > 2. Every time a task due date is moved on or after the current due > > date, the "bump count" is incremented. > > > The "bump count" would be available as a filter or for sorting. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en.
