Hi Michael
Same as usual - give it a Start Date and an End date, on say Monday, and set the recurrence to be every 4 days. (Alt-2/ Properties > Timing and Reminder > Recurrence, and maybe set Advanced Options > Do not create a completed copy …, if you prefer) On Mon it will appear on your radar. When you check the task off it will regenerate with a due date of Thu, and won’t show again until that gets near. That’s how I’d do it. But then, I don’t use Computed Score, I use a combination of Due in Next 30 Days, and Starred view with manual sorting. I’d like to get slick enough with advanced filters to trust the computed score but I never get around to it. Regards Wol From: 'Michael Emerald, CFA' via MyLifeOrganized [mailto:mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com] Sent: 02 August 2016 18:33 To: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: [MLO] Re: Advice needed on how to use Flags & Contexts in MLO. (e.g. Can Flags be set to be 'inherited' ?) Hi Wallace. Keep talking. I agree that if something doesn’t have a TRUE due date, then it shouldn’t be shown. But how do you get tasks to sort by semblance of due date? Like, if I need to check the post office box every 4 days or so, how do I implement that task without putting in a due date? I’ve asked, in the past, for another field marked “deliverable”. Your thoughts? From: Wallace Gilbraith [mailto:gilbra...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Wallace Gilbraith Sent: Tuesday, August 2, 2016 12:26 To: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com <mailto:mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com> Subject: RE: [MLO] Re: Advice needed on how to use Flags & Contexts in MLO. (e.g. Can Flags be set to be 'inherited' ?) Hi John Sure I use the Concept, I just don’t use a list for it The concept is, if a task needs to be done (or reviewed) by a certain date, it gets a Due Date If it doesn’t (and it’s therefore by definition a Someday/ Maybe item), it doesn’t Regards Wol From: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com <mailto:mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com> [mailto:mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of J Smith Sent: 02 August 2016 11:04 To: MyLifeOrganized <mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com <mailto:mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com> > Cc: h...@gilbraith.co.uk <mailto:h...@gilbraith.co.uk> Subject: Re: [MLO] Re: Advice needed on how to use Flags & Contexts in MLO. (e.g. Can Flags be set to be 'inherited' ?) 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:> . 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