Hello John, Welcome to the MLO community. Regarding folders:
Firstly, I structure my outline into areas of my life (personal, home, work, community), then roles (&Father / Family, &Earner / Finances, &Home Improver, &Engineer, &SCADA Specialist... - don't worry about the & prefixes - I just use a range of hashtags to help narrow down text searches), then my projects and tasks under each role. So, in summary, the first three levels of my outline are Area of life -> Role -> Project To make the most of some of the advanced filter options (TopLevelFolderName, TopLevelParentName, TopLevelProjectName), my areas of life are tasks, roles are folders and projects are... projects. That way I can use those filter terms to narrow down my view to a particular area, role or project. The other thing I use folders for is for keeping notes, links and information related to a role or project, distinct from its tasks. A folder item can also be thought of a note item, with no start or due date and which won't get completed and checked off. Hope you manage to up a system which works for you, for maximising ease of use and productivity. Stéphane On Saturday, 30 October 2021 at 19:06:38 UTC+1 jkel...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello all! > > I just finished my trial and am literally "sold" on MLO! :) I am pretty > clear on when is the best time to make a task a Project and when to just > leave it a task (regardless of whether it has subtasks or not), but am > curious how people use Folders? > > I've read through the Guide and they only reference how to create, modify, > etc. a folder, but doesn't talk about why you would want to use one vs. > just making the task a project or leave it a task. > > I am using the FranklinCovey template and that prepopulated Roles (Father, > Boss, etc.? and Sharpen the Saw (Physical, Social, Spiritual, etc.) as > folders. This seems odd to me as when I use them, I tend to put things on > my calendar (e.g., schedule time to workout) or put a task in (e.g., buy > running shoes). > > Would people please share how they use folders? What do you put in them? > Do you stack them (i.e., folders within folders)? > > Thanks, > > John > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/6ec0f56c-75f9-4337-bc45-b54212e23416n%40googlegroups.com.
