Hi Dwight, Thanks for this response.
I think your suggestion of a "NEW" view is the simplest solution for me. Then inbox will become an unused folder (or rather an unused view), since I will never "view" it, I will simply do the instant-add via Android's widget. It still remains an unwieldy "workaround" to me, though...since, often times I have contexts ready to go when entering a task on-the-fly, but, will only really Setup (I used the word "Process" in previous posts) orGTD's "Defer" at a later stage. I agree also with the two-touch and three-touch system, which +Steve also refers to as you do. This is pretty much my way of attempting to work. Again, I then the "new" view is a great workaround, and I'll be using that for sure. On Tuesday, 3 November 2015 15:28:17 UTC+2, Dwight Arthur wrote: > > Hi, Riann. I agree with Nick's point but I would like to take it a little > further. Just getting your tasks out of the inbox will not end the clutter. > You will just be moving the clutter to a different place. If you are not > using folders then you will be moving the clotter to the root level, which > is not a very good place for clutter. > > I have heard several people say that they do not use folders; usually that > means that they have not yet figured out how they want to organize their > tasks; later on it occurs to them that they could find and manage tasks > more effectively if they were organized by some or other principle, and > then they discover folders. > > But if it's not time for you to reach that point, there's no benefit in > rushing to it. So for now, let's agree that you want you pending tasks to > be stored as an undifferentiated tangle. Why not, as Nick said, just keep > them in the inbox? About a third to a half of my tasks are in the inbox. > I'm guessing that the issue is that you want to be able to look at just the > new stuff and you are looking at the inbox to see the new stuff but that > it/x difficult because all the old stuff is mixed in. The answer to this is > to ask yourself, how could MLO know which stuff is new? and then build a > view that applies that rule, whatever you figured out. > > The point (for me) of using MLO is to get stuff done and to spend as > little time as possible arranging and maintaining tasks. So any sort of > regular routine where I am going in and moving stuff around is a drag on my > productivity and something to be avoided. I try to touch each task twice, > once when I set it up and once when I finish it. A lot of the time I am > faced with your fast entry scenario and I dont have time to set the tasks > up when I capture them, and then I go to three touches per task: capture, > setup, and completion. For me, the issue you are facing comes down to > getting a clean look at tasks that have been captured but not set up. > Here's how I handle this (there are many other equally valid approaches, > maybe you will invent a new one, and you should do whatever makes you the > most productive) > > When I do the setup for a task, I always add a context, based on what > event or condition is going to mean that this task is ready to be > completed. I may at that time also add dates, dependencies, importance, > goals and stars. A task that has been captured but not set up has no > context. I am careful never to get a task halfway setup - if it has a > context assigned that means that any dates, dependencies etc have also been > set up. I have a view called "new" that shows tasks with no context. The > task is sorted by modification date ascending, which means that the task > that has been sitting on this view the longest is at the top. When I get a > chance I take the top task, assign any dates, dependencies, etc, move it to > a folder or project if appropriate, and finally assign a context. This is > my equivalent of your activation. The task instantly vanishes from the new > list and appears on one or more other lists when it's ready to get > completed. > > If I just opened up my inbox and looked into it, it would look cluttered. > But my New view and my various To-Do views are pretty much orderly. > > Does that help? > -Dwight > > On Monday, November 2, 2015 at 6:00:50 PM UTC-5, Nick Clark wrote: >> >> If you don't use folders(?) why move them out of the Inbox. I don't know >> what you mean by "activate" a task, it should be active unless something >> like dates prevent this. You can complete them in HD Inbox. >> >> If you are using folders and want to move a task or even a whole tree of >> tasks out of the Inbox to another folder, there are several ways to do >> this, but I find the easiest is often Cut (ctrl-X) and Paste (ctrl-V). >> >> Nick >> >> -- 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/2fafcce7-7a1c-459e-9aed-9d1eced3b17b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
