Thanks for the suggestion, Dwight The context approach might work but the problem is that the next 'calm place' may be several days (or even weeks off) and when I am in this Arrgh mode - I need to see an immediate list of tasks from which I pick the most important and postpone (= set start date to next hour/day/whatever) or demote (= drag lower in the list), the remainder Incidentally, are you (& others) aware of Cynefin? Worth Googling. My 'Arrgh' mode equates to the Chaotic quadrant in his model - where it is more important to Act than to do anything else. Richard
On Friday, 28 February 2014 00:49:50 UTC, Dwight Arthur wrote: > Hi, Richard. I'm familiar with the problem of tasks coming at me faster > than I'm able to set them up properly. My solution may not work for you as > i have never used manual sorting. > > Every one of my tasks has one or more contexts. When I'm being overwhelmed > by new tasks I create them without contexts. The next time that I'm in a > calm place I bring up a view of active tasks with context (none) and ove > each one to the place in the outline where it belongs and add one or more > contexts, along with start and due dates, dependencies, importance and > urgency as appropriate. > -Dwight > Mlo betazoid on Android sgn2 > > On Feb 27, 2014, Richard C <r...@rcollings.co.uk <javascript:>> wrote: >> >> I have two modes of working as an IT Consultant: >> >> 1. 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 >> 2. 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 t hat 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/cc49b04b-3406-4735-8ce3-910ca1ece3da%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
