Thanks for your advice everybody. Eventually I went with Lisa's suggestion of using flags. It's not perfect but it's pretty good. Thanks!
On Saturday, October 13, 2012 10:15:33 PM UTC+2, bs27975 wrote: > > Some additional thoughts, perhaps relevant. > > Dated tasks can help prioritize / focus in some cases. If something can > only be done during a particular time period, you do it then or it can > never be done. (Not doing it, particularly in the presence of an alternate > / competing task for the same period, is a perfectly valid choice.) > > You have to remember there is only so much of you to go around. And things > take as long as they take. (Let alone, sleep is important, if you wish to > be productive the next day.) Try not to beat up on yourself for not getting > # things done today, merely ask yourself - in the time you had available, > were you productive on things that needed doing. And accept that you did > what it was possible to do, and all is well. It's 'OK' if you didn't get it > all done - it wasn't humanly possible to do so. And you are human. And > family and down time is important, too. > > It sounds like you might appreciate the idea of 'next action' (NA). If you > have a goal, and have determined an order, be it sequential, priority, or > most bang for the buck / amount of time spent, the top item of that order > should be the only item you see on your todo list. (All else being filtered > out of display, at that moment.) > > Contexts may also help - you can't mow your lawn when you're at work, so > having 'mow lawn' visible on your list when you're at work is just > depressing background noise. [At home, reverse is true, let alone, if the > problem is bad enough, a viable solution is to hire someone to mow the lawn > for you - assuming you have sufficient competing claims for your time that > you judge them more important than mowing the lawn.] > > On Saturday, 13 October 2012 08:24:03 UTC-4, Dwight Arthur wrote: >> >> Hi, Ram. >> For a three-level indicate you could consider "goal." The there levels >> are defined as weekly, monthly and yearly but you could use them to >> implement your three levels of compellingness for lack of a better word. I >> don't believe you can rename the levels of goal so you would just have to >> think of "monthly" as meaning "moderately compelling" and so on. >> >> Ram Rachum <r...@rachum.com> wrote: >>> >>> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 5:43 AM, Dwight Arthur <m...@grantsmiths.org>wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, Ram. Many people use the Star attribute to mean "must do" - you can >>>> then do stuff like using the sort in your to-do list to put the starred >>>> tasks ahead of the non-starred ones, and you can pull up the starred view >>>> to clean out starred tasks that you have finished or given up on. >>>> >>> . > . > . > >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mylifeorganized/-/tAJdDy_w-b0J. To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en.
