[MLO] Re: A piece of advice on tasks

2020-08-26 Thread robyn...@gmail.com
Hi All, I'm using Contexts for people I assign tasks for. I've deleted all the Contexts I don't use (I don't use them...) and created Contexts with people's names. On Tuesday, 17 April 2018 at 23:37:22 UTC+10 MG wrote: > Hi Aiman, > > For your need I used to add a dependency task, I mean t

[MLO] Re: A piece of advice on tasks

2018-04-17 Thread MG
Hi Aiman, For your need I used to add a dependency task, I mean the task that need to be completed will dependent of specific task. For that, got to Dependencies section in the task properties panel and add the apropriate tasks. On the Delay field set the time for it to wait and, as soon as yo

[MLO] Re: A piece of advice on tasks

2018-04-16 Thread Stéph
Hello Aiman, When I delegate a task or I'm waiting for input from someone, I set the context to "?Waiting" and I put the person's name at the top of my task notes, with a ? tag for example: ?Joe Smith. That way, when I'm talking to Joe Smith about something, I can quickly search my outline for

[MLO] Re: A piece of advice on tasks

2018-04-16 Thread Mun Thung Lew
Hi, For me to deal with those aborted task meanwhile not to delete it, I will use "Hide the branch in To-do" or Alt+E and leave a remark in the note section remind me why I do not complete the task. These tasks will be grey out and remain in the task structure. ^^ Regards, LEW On Friday, 13 Ap

[MLO] Re: A piece of advice on tasks

2018-04-16 Thread Aiman A
This is a very good discussion! Any advice on how do you deal with "Waiting for customer input"? I deal with a lot of tasks/projects, and a lot of the times, I have to wait for a response which can take days or weeks (and I don't have control). I struggle when I try to manage these in MLO. On

[MLO] Re: A piece of advice on tasks

2018-04-14 Thread robisme (Olivier R)
For that purpose, I use to add a subtask to the task, so that it becames unactive. I give that subtask a "waiting for" context. Olivier -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving email

[MLO] Re: A piece of advice on tasks

2018-04-13 Thread Stéph
I agree that it is important to be able to record a task as not done / aborted / superseded. Not many task managers have an easy way of doing that. The way I do it in MLO is to have a category "-Superseded", which I set when I check the task off. I have an autoformatting rule to set a little,