Wol - I'm afraid I don't really understand. Do you not use the concept of a Someday/Maybe list at all? Or if you do, then how do you flag a task as being in that list?
And likewise exactly what are you using Due Dates for? I mean are you using Due Dates as the date when you want to be reminded to start a task? If so how do you remove them from view until that time? Cheers J On Tuesday, 2 August 2016 00:03:13 UTC+1, Wallace Gilbraith wrote: > > Hi John, > > > > If I recall, GTD was developed as a paper-based system, eg with lists in > sections of a filing cabinet. > > MLO can do it with Dates, all in one list (profile). When do you want to > Do, or Be Reminded Of, a task? > > I found Due Dates alone to be a good way to start, and I don’t mind > postponing tasks. > > I experimented with Start Dates, but don’t use them much, as I don’t use > auto-sort. > > Someday/ Maybe doesn’t have dates. They’re usually whole projects. > > What I do probably isn’t ‘Pure GTD’, but it’s enough to keep me on track. > > > > Regards > > > > Wol > > > > > > > > *From:* mylifeo...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> [mailto: > mylifeo...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>] *On Behalf Of *J Smith > *Sent:* 01 August 2016 16:18 > *To:* MyLifeOrganized <mylifeo...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>> > *Subject:* [MLO] Re: Advice needed on how to use Flags & Contexts in MLO. > (e.g. Can Flags be set to be 'inherited' ?) > > > > Are there any other fields in MLO (other than Context-tag) that a child > task does inherit from a parent task? > > > > For me these are deeply irritating issues, because I still haven't really > managed to get MLO to work properly with the GTD method. > > To be honest sometime MLO feels like "The Monkey's Claw" [GRRR]. i.e. MLO > has so much potential and is so full-featured, but there is always some > unintended consequence of any new way of doing things that I manage to > think up. > > > > My main problem I just cant work a good way move tasks & projects between > GTD 'list'. MLO is such a powerful system and yet I feel stuck in 1st gear! > > > > For my "waiting for" list I mostly live in Active tasks views and just > kick things along the road by putting the Start Date into the future, and > review things then, but that's not ideal. > > > > My main problem is moving things between my "Someday-maybe" and my > "Active" lists. > > > > I have experimented by putting everything into one of 2 folder (i.e. one > called "ASAP" and one folder called "Sometime_Maybe"). I then physically > move the tasks between the 2 folders, but it's very clunky, particularly > when you get into the hundreds of tasks. > > > > To be honest I'm tempted to move back to pen & paper for a while as this > technology is slightly getting in the way. > > > > J > > > > On Saturday, 30 July 2016 22:32:17 UTC+1, Stéph wrote: > > Hello John, > > > > No, I'm afraid there's no way of setting preferences for inheritance. I've > raised it for consideration a few times - In my case, for example, I'd like > to switch off inheritance of contexts and I would like new items to have a > default start date of Today and default end date matching its parent's. All > this was possible back when I was a Bonsai user, but there's no sign that > it's going to be introduced in MLO in the near future. > > > > All the best, > > Stéphane > > > > > > On Wednesday, 27 July 2016 20:43:06 UTC+1, J Smith wrote: > > > > Hello > > > > I still need advice on how to structure things. > > > > I am finding that putting too much information into my Context-tags gets > pretty messy - particularly when I use views like "Active Actions by > Context"(!) > > > > Areas of Life > > I am using top level folders to distinguish my Areas of Life (e.g. Work, > Personal-Admin, Recreation). I think this works well because tasks will > almost never change Area of Life. (Fwiw, I also have some stuff I dont have > to do stored in other different top level folders.) So far so good. > > > > But I can't decide how best to use: > A) Flags and > B) Context-tags > in MLO ... so as to control: > > - GTD "List" (e.g. .Active, .Someday/maybe, .Waiting etc) and > > - GTD "Context" (i.e. "where" type information: @PC, @Errands, > @Phone, @Home... and also "required mood" type information: ~Low_energy, > ~High_Resistance, ~Tiddler ) > > > From first principles, in MLO > > > > A) Flags: > - A task in MLO can only have *one* flag. > > - A new task in MLO will *not* inherit the flag of its parent > > > > B) Context-tags: > > - A task can you have *multiple* Contexts-tags per task, > > - MLO can be set up so that at a new child task will 'inherit' its > Context-tag(s) from its parent. > > It seems to me that any given task, in fact any entire Project, should > only be in *one* GTD "List" at a time. > > This would initially seem to point toward using Flags to control 'GTD > List', but it is a pain when you add a child task to a project that it > doesn't inherit the parent's flag (i.e. what would be the parent's GTD list > status) > > Likewise it would be nice to be able to apply both a "where" type > Context-tags AND a "mood" type Context-tag to the same task. > > For example a task might be say: "Ask boss for pay rise" @Phone > ~High_Resistance > > > > But in general these contexts for individual Tasks are unlikely to inherit > their values from their parents. > > > > So, thinking it all through... > > - Is there any way to get either get Flags to inherit their values > > OR > > - Is there any way to get multiple Flags per task (without needing to > inherit) > > > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks > > J > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/559b8a33-643d-4665-bca1-f90b41c7b31e%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/559b8a33-643d-4665-bca1-f90b41c7b31e%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. 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