Await with interest! On Friday, 28 February 2014 10:29:44 UTC, Joel Azaria wrote:
> 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 <javascript:>> > 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 mylifeorganiz...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to > > mylifeo...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> > . > > 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/1574a2fa-abf2-46ee-9e9c-f839af84d273%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
