[MLO] Re: Newbie Question: Does MLO have 'Areas of Focus'?
John: I'm having a problem with this thread because it has too many open issues. This takes something away from the usefulness of the forum for other users because the result is that a discussion that could be helpful to someone else (eg how to keep certain contexts out of the to-do list) is hidden in the postscripts of some other discussion (eg how to manage an area of focus). So I'm going to respond here to your area of focus question and start new threads for answers to your postscripts. Using nested contexts, as I suggested, is useful if your areas of focus are isomorphic to your contexts, that is, they fall in the same general structure. Your areas of focus are orthogonal to your contexts, that is they go in a different suggestion. In this case I agree with the posts from Richard, Andrei and Pottster that your areas of focus should probably be the basis for your outline structure. So your outline would have top level branches like work, relationships, etc and there might be a next level of branches for each job, each relationship, or whatever. Then, contexts would represent what kind of task, or what you need to do the task, or whatever. You would use context filtering to select tasks relevant to the tools you have and the place you are, and use zoom-in to select the area of focus. Does this sound right to you? Note that you can build a view with a particular zoom built into it, and save it in a tab for easy access. -Dwight On Thursday, November 27, 2014 2:45:11 PM UTC-5, John Smith wrote: Hello Newbie question: Does MLO have an equivalent of GTD Areas of Focus e.g. Work, Body/Mind, Life Learning, Relationships etc ? I guess I am looking for a single-click to JUST see stuff that relates to say Work. Presumably this could be done with Context tags in some way... but that would be clunky. Ultimately I suppose it's about having a second tier of filtering. I see that there was some discussion by in 2005 about this but what is the current position? With thanks -- 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/5fe1049a-4e7d-4898-bd1c-36c56315e1d6%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[MLO] Re: Newbie Question: Does MLO have 'Areas of Focus'?
Hi Dwight Apologies for moving the goal posts mid-thread. I guess I was leary of starting too many threads - it's hard to know how different communities like to work. The more I think about it the more I realise that I have absolutely no idea how best to use either folders or Context tags. Fwiw, the only other system I have used 'in anger' (GTDNext) simply gives you a list of your context tags across the top of the page. And in a single click you immediately filter whatever it is you are looking at to that tag. How much more easy and intuitive compared to MLO is that !! https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-KLIPffjVR44/VH-Y1Z_n2yI/AMU/Nyj3aO6eW3g/s1600/delme_MLO_02b.gif Likewise GTDNext has entirely separate fields for a) Context (tag) b) Area (of focus) c) List (Inbox/Active/Sheduled/Waiting/Someday) And by being separate fields there is a lot less setting up general confusion for the new user. To be honest I still only half understand what you say about how to use/how best to MLO - especially for rapid, as few clicks and keystrokes as possible views of my data. e.g. When you say my Outline would have top branches like... do you mean the hierarchical structure of Folders? And when you talk about setting up some Context filtering how is that best done? Do I need to build and entire view for each Context? If so this is painful stuff, indeed! For one thing if I have too many Context and create one view per Context tag, then they will be difficult to find in the menus on the left... Ah but you can always set up hotkeys to fire them up, I hear someone cry. Yes but there is no very obvious hotkey convention to use. Plus I dont want to have to keep rebuilding these things every time I think of a more easy to remember convention - or indeed a more fully available convention that can be fully used without shuffling around the existing hotkeys And/or I may have made fundamental mistakes with the design of my views in the first place And/or if I accidentally delete some views } all of which do take thought, energy and time! I dont want to push my luck by any chance of some screenshots to see what you mean? To be honest there are so many options many of which may be inefficient that I am floundering somewhat. J On Wednesday, December 3, 2014 9:10:57 PM UTC, Dwight Arthur wrote: John: I'm having a problem with this thread because it has too many open issues. This takes something away from the usefulness of the forum for other users because the result is that a discussion that could be helpful to someone else (eg how to keep certain contexts out of the to-do list) is hidden in the postscripts of some other discussion (eg how to manage an area of focus). So I'm going to respond here to your area of focus question and start new threads for answers to your postscripts. Using nested contexts, as I suggested, is useful if your areas of focus are isomorphic to your contexts, that is, they fall in the same general structure. Your areas of focus are orthogonal to your contexts, that is they go in a different suggestion. In this case I agree with the posts from Richard, Andrei and Pottster that your areas of focus should probably be the basis for your outline structure. So your outline would have top level branches like work, relationships, etc and there might be a next level of branches for each job, each relationship, or whatever. Then, contexts would represent what kind of task, or what you need to do the task, or whatever. You would use context filtering to select tasks relevant to the tools you have and the place you are, and use zoom-in to select the area of focus. Does this sound right to you? Note that you can build a view with a particular zoom built into it, and save it in a tab for easy access. -Dwight On Thursday, November 27, 2014 2:45:11 PM UTC-5, John Smith wrote: Hello Newbie question: Does MLO have an equivalent of GTD Areas of Focus e.g. Work, Body/Mind, Life Learning, Relationships etc ? I guess I am looking for a single-click to JUST see stuff that relates to say Work. Presumably this could be done with Context tags in some way... but that would be clunky. Ultimately I suppose it's about having a second tier of filtering. I see that there was some discussion by in 2005 about this but what is the current position? With thanks -- 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/fa5d61d8-9303-4be6-b132-08889481f9b5%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit
[MLO] Re: Newbie Question: Does MLO have 'Areas of Focus'?
OK thanks For the record I am using Windows and Android J On Saturday, November 29, 2014 7:24:28 PM UTC, Richard C wrote: Which version are you using, John (Windows, Android, iOS)? I agree with Dwight that one way of achieving this would be to use Contexts as described. Another option would be to use the hierarchy - create top level items for each Area of Focus and then create Projects and Tasks under each of these as appropriate. You can then use the Zoom facility to Zoom into a particular area of focus by selecting the top level Task and selecting Zoom (Ctrl+R). The Zoom works in both the hierarchical and ToDo views - but you would have to select the Top Level item in a hierarchical view and then switch to a To Do. You could also use this approach (or the Context approach) in conjunction with the Workspaces functionality to create separate tabs for each Area of Focus. The above applies to the Windows version - I don't currently use MLO on my mobile. Hope this helps Richard On Thursday, 27 November 2014 19:45:11 UTC, John Smith wrote: Hello Newbie question: Does MLO have an equivalent of GTD Areas of Focus e.g. Work, Body/Mind, Life Learning, Relationships etc ? I guess I am looking for a single-click to JUST see stuff that relates to say Work. Presumably this could be done with Context tags in some way... but that would be clunky. Ultimately I suppose it's about having a second tier of filtering. I see that there was some discussion by in 2005 about this but what is the current position? With thanks -- 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/63cf1f55-ab95-473f-be36-e22309dbf3c1%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[MLO] Re: Newbie Question: Does MLO have 'Areas of Focus'?
Which version are you using, John (Windows, Android, iOS)? I agree with Dwight that one way of achieving this would be to use Contexts as described. Another option would be to use the hierarchy - create top level items for each Area of Focus and then create Projects and Tasks under each of these as appropriate. You can then use the Zoom facility to Zoom into a particular area of focus by selecting the top level Task and selecting Zoom (Ctrl+R). The Zoom works in both the hierarchical and ToDo views - but you would have to select the Top Level item in a hierarchical view and then switch to a To Do. You could also use this approach (or the Context approach) in conjunction with the Workspaces functionality to create separate tabs for each Area of Focus. The above applies to the Windows version - I don't currently use MLO on my mobile. Hope this helps Richard On Thursday, 27 November 2014 19:45:11 UTC, John Smith wrote: Hello Newbie question: Does MLO have an equivalent of GTD Areas of Focus e.g. Work, Body/Mind, Life Learning, Relationships etc ? I guess I am looking for a single-click to JUST see stuff that relates to say Work. Presumably this could be done with Context tags in some way... but that would be clunky. Ultimately I suppose it's about having a second tier of filtering. I see that there was some discussion by in 2005 about this but what is the current position? With thanks -- 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/335747c4-0244-4758-8551-31518da59af6%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
