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There's a position 4? So there is! I'd neglected that one. Thanks - I may well start to use that for some kind of category of information. Might be for my !Learning Notes category. Glad my icons are finding uses. My personal favourite might just be the Someday/Maybe flying pig, because it sums

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On Sunday, January 24, 2021 at 4:16:20 PM UTC-8 Stéph wrote: > I'm glad you like the icons. I used to do a lot of trips, for a while, and > spent a bit of the time creating my own, custom icons. I used simple shapes > with specific colours for particular groups of icons, so that they would be

Re: [MLO] Re: New to MLO

Thanks Dwight and Stephane. Very helpful. Peter On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 7:03 PM Dwight Arthur wrote: > Another reason for starting a context with a character other than "@" is > to allow some natural groupings whenever contexts are shown alphabetically. > For example, five or six contexts tha

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Another reason for starting a context with a character other than "@" is to allow some natural groupings whenever contexts are shown alphabetically. For example, five or six contexts that I use constantly start with "*" or "#" which puts them to the top of the lis

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& is a hashtag for me, for searching or filtering my outline for roles. (Why use & as a tag - just because "& here's another thing I do"). Similarly, I use "?" to tag a name of someone when they are the prime contact or given responsibility for a task. So, typing &SCADA in the search box takes

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I thought the same when I saw your outline. I have been using these areas for years and it seems to work well for me. I was curious about how the “&” functions in your outline? I have taken the plunge now that my trial period is over and bought the pro versions for windows and iOS. Looking forw

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Interesting. Pretty similar in structure to my own outline. Thanks for sharing. On Saturday, 13 February 2021 at 18:41:04 UTC petervan...@gmail.com wrote: > Thanks for this amount of detail, Stéphane.Very interesting and > helpful.I suppose what I meant by loose tasks is tasks that do n

[MLO] Re: New to MLO

I'm glad you like the icons. I used to do a lot of trips, for a while, and spent a bit of the time creating my own, custom icons. I used simple shapes with specific colours for particular groups of icons, so that they would be quick to recognise at a glance. Back when you could get a Google Grou

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Stéphane, where do you get those awesome custom icons? I would love a phone or computer icon to show the context - really good idea! I tried to download and import some but they didn't seem to work. What do you do when a task has multiple contexts each with icons? On Thursday, January 21, 2021

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Good question. Generally, I don't have any loose tasks just related to an area of life. The tasks are all related to some kind of Role or Goal, so are in a folder. To give you a feel for the kind of structure, here's a selection of the Roles and Goals I've set for myself in each Area of life: P

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Thank you for this, Stéphane. Much appreciated. One question: if I would drill down into one of your area folders, do you keep single, non-project related tasks just loosely in the area's folder or do you have another folder for just single actions? Or perhaps you don't have non-project re

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Welcome to MLO, Peter. You'll find that MLO is very flexible, so there are lots of ways to achieve almost anything you want. I've just posted a note about my outline structure in Joel's recent thread, here . I use GTD contexts (I was th