Hi Andrei, I completely agree with you. In my opinion people, don't spend enough time developing the structure of their outlines. The outline gives a built-in set of contexts and facilitates review. It shouldn't be "set it and forget it", it should be amended and adjusted to reflect how you want your life organized. As your life circumstances and priorities change then your outline structure should change as well to match it. In eight years of using MLO I think I've undertaken a major overhaul of my Outline about four times and found it well worth the effort. I incorporate goals and projects into sections of my Outline rather that relying on contexts or other tags and that works well for me. It's also been my experience that the better the Outline the easier it is to share with other people e.g. my wife!
On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 09:35:11 UTC, Andrei Bacean wrote: > > Hi John > > The hardest thing, imho, is to create a simple, easy to understand, TREE. > Yes, I say TREE. > The TREE is the base of your GTD system. But views, tabs, contexts are > instruments which u use to obtain more benefits from the tree. > The TREE has to be simple, intuitive and easy to view. You dont have to > feel any discomfort when you look at it. > If instead you think that the tree is complicated then you may STOP at > this moment, don't play with views, tabs and so on. GO BACK to the tree and > try to simplify it, reorganize it. If you think that you achieved what you > want, and the tree is perfect, then leave it for 1 day. Look at it again > the next day in the morning, then in the afternoon and also in the evening. > Do you think it's also perfect as before?? > If yes, then slowly, step by step play with Tabs, Views, Contexts but > remember to not make significant changes to the tree in a hurry. > To create a system that works for you is a hard thing. That's why don't > hurry, but step by step try to improve your tree, and when you think that > it's perfect, only then, play with views and tabs. > > Ps > The Tree may be customized using different fonts for top parrent, using > diffenent colors for urgent tasks, using icons instead of classic folders > example > http://kraevoy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/autoformat_2014_06_26_08.jpg > use CAPITALIZATION for top folders instead of normal text and so on... > But at the base of any tree is the information and not the formatting. > So, try to search in this group for examples of use, to see more examples > of trees. Also play with templates offered by MLO Application(menu file/new > and then choose a template). Browse also the mlo blog, Andrei (the > developer) posted a topic about his MLO tree. Read also more carefully the > MLO help file (press F1). > I wish you to not hurry but to build your perfect system step by step. > Good luck > Andrei B > > > > > > > > -- 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/832e2b71-4e3f-45f2-8671-74019c2c9a4d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
