Interesting discussion :).
My persona conclusion in short - to this intent for getting M-L-O ;):
*Recommencation *- keep all within one system, keep your current tasks and
history in separate files; do analysis with XLS based on exported stuff
from the history
*Precondition*
- you have folders set up which model your "life" - i call this the
"garden of my life"; most methods recommend something like 7-13 areas
- define with the folders sub-folders for the main stable things you
want to have in your life - i.e. house, fitness, health, good relationship,
...
- have no more than 2 layers.. deeper stuff i would defer to
Mindmanager or similar as this is more tactical not MLO stuff
*Implementation - tracking*
- create repeating tasks for habits you want to form - frequency
depending on the kind of habit
- in the recurrence advanced options disable the checkbox "do not create
a completed copy of this taks on recurring"
- by this you get a log of when you performed the habit
- do you thing with the task
- every morning archive all tasks starting from yesterday... or later
into an archive.ml file
*Implementation - analysis*
- export all archive into an XLS file
- and start your analysis magic - by using a pivot-table to drill into
the data as needed
- by this you can create any sort of views on your past "performance"
and get ideas across all areas of live
- reason for this recommendation - habits typically either support or
contradict themselves, but one can only "see" this if you take a look all
areas at the same time and look for the balance
..
My journey ;)
I landed with MLO as having all strategic things in one system is kind of
key.
i did start with XLS, the switched to mindmapping, then built my own access
based application to even integrate the file-system and other resources and
then simplified by to MLO.
As MLO has a really good master - based on observation of the software -
who is using MLO for himself and that is perfectly observable.
For example the views and how they enable the slicing and dicing of "your
life" is genius. And the dashboard - although the name is missleading
somehow ;) - is great too.
As you can for example define something for your idea as:
- top view all habits which are at hand for today
- bottom view - all related tasks which are derived or needed to perform
the habit in a best possible way
- ... and so on
If you want to talk about the analysis part and what magic you can do with
XLS to create great insights into your habit performance - happy to chat.
Most of the tracker apps have some sort of analysis means, but as soon as
you want to leave the mainstream questions to your history you mostly end
up lost in space ;)
Laurence Glazier schrieb am Mittwoch, 17. April 2024 um 10:32:54 UTC+2:
> I am doing this in an Evernote table, and the iPhone app "Routine". Will
> take a look at ATracker Pro, thanks.
>
> On Saturday 13 April 2024 at 10:10:04 UTC+1 Kini Man wrote:
>
>> I just used the ATracker Pro, thanks it's good app for Make up for the
>> shortcomings of MLO
>>
>> 在2019年1月17日星期四 UTC+8 05:57:48<Stéph> 写道：
>>
>>> I've previously set up recurring tasks for some habits I want to
>>> develop, like exercise. You could track it by making MLO keep a copy of
>>> completed tasks (an option somewhere in the set up for recurring tasks),
>>> but I don't find that particularly useful for checking how regular my
>>> habits get.
>>>
>>> In the end, for time tracking and habit formation, I've started using a
>>> completely different app which is set up more specifically for such things
>>> - It's an iOS app called "ATracker Pro". I can view nice pie and bar charts
>>> to work out how much time I'm spending on my trumpet practice and sleep,
>>> for example, and I can export to a csv file for spreadsheets. There are
>>> loads of apps out there that do similar things, or ones that try to get you
>>> to gameify getting streaks of successfully doing whatever your habit is on
>>> consecutive days. I like ATracker because it doesn't follow a subscription
>>> model. Meanwhile, I keep MLO for planning and task management in home and
>>> work projects.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, 16 January 2019 19:32:55 UTC, c.k. lester wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm certain there are recurring tasks I can set up to help me track
>>>> habit development. For example, let's say I want to get in the habit of
>>>> drinking a glass of water every morning. I would make it recurring, and I
>>>> would be able to check it off each morning as the activity is completed.
>>>> The goal is to eventually make the activity a habit and, therefore, no
>>>> longer need the reminder.
>>>>
>>>> How would I organize that? Should I set up a folder for these
>>>> activities, or maybe a context or ... what?
>>>>
>>>>
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