I've worked and work now much as I suspect you do: spurts of days to maybe weeks on end in the office, spotted days and/or spurts of days "in the field". My current position is just that but my "field" time often takes me to construction/renovation projects rather than office buildings. I understand things coming fast and furious and needing to capture them all.
I think I have a better way. It's a concept I'm carrying from when I was a Life Balance user that I call the Speedbox which leverages contexts heavily and makes possible to do a limited but near instant "pre processing" so key items get to key lists immediately. I'm trying to reimagine it a bit now for myself on mlo so it's kinda work-in-progress right now. I'd actually started a post a few nights ago about it and didn't finish because I need more time to flesh it out, take some screenshots and get it out of my head in a sensible way.. It might take a week or so. Hang in there and I'm hoping this will be worth it for you On Feb 27, 2014 3:08 PM, "Richard C" <r...@rcollings.co.uk> wrote: > > I have two modes of working as an IT Consultant: > Planning mode: when I am working at home, most of the time, I tend to be working in quite a structured way - I won't go into the detail but this involves heavy use of MLO to plan and manage my time > Arrrgh mode: (I don't have a good label for this) but it typically occurs when I am on a client's site where I have back to back meetings, workshops, hand holding sessions, etc. When I am in this mode, I normally know what to do next by looking at my calendar - ie I have a meeting/workshop/event or something; or I have to prepare for the next meeting/workshop/event. This is when my use of MLO goes out of the window. This is not necessary a problem except that people are throwing new things at me that I need to remember to do (and I keep thinking of things that I need to do). It is this that I want to focus on. > > When I am in Arrgh mode, I don't have time to add stuff into my MLO Outline in the right place so I could be using the Inbox. The only problem with this is that new Tasks go to the of my To Do list (which is manually sorted) where I don't see them. > > So one solution to this would be to have a flag on a folder which says (in a shorter form that this) 'New sub-tasks added to start of manually sorted To Do lists'. If this was ticked on the Inbox, any new items added would immediately appear at the start of my To Do list which I would see the next time I looked at my To Do list. I can then immediately decide what to do with them (action, delay, drag to their correct place in the MLO hierarchy, whatever). > > That's one suggestion but if anybody has another way of dealing with this 'Arrgh' mode of working, I would be very interested to hear. > > Richard > > > > -- > 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/b353b382-4f55-44c6-8231-42eedcdcd7bc%40googlegroups.com .. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- 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/CAK9DN2q7Hsu-v0WOXi0hAGofOkR8qZXyZdbycDbP3uiiCac0ZQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
