Jay, Yea, ya know if you look at it long enough you begin to realize this. I guess it took my second go round to see it clearly.
I loaded up the GTD template and it makes a l lot of sense to me. Thanks, John On Saturday, November 8, 2014 10:41:58 AM UTC-5, Jay wrote: > > John, > > Anything you delete from MLO is gone from all views. The "project area" > you refer to is actually a view of all your tasks and folders marked as > projects. Views are a powerful part of MLO to visualise your tasks and > projects. > I would suggest you take a look at the demo template in MLO which will > help you understand the task organisation better. In MLO, click on File -> > New and select the "MyLifeOrganized - Demo File" from the drop-down (see > screenshot). > > Hope this helps. > > Regards, > Jay > > > On Saturday, 8 November 2014 14:45:16 UTC, John Cesta wrote: >> >> >> I think I get the inbox thing. I create tasks on my tablet and phone and >> they end up in the inbox (like any gtd app I used in the past) Then i need >> to actually move it to another folder. My original problem was I didn't >> have another folder OUTSIDE of the inbox now I do as in figure MLO 1A >> >> Now however there are some projects in my inbox I can't seem to get rid >> of. If I delete them from the inbox they delete from the projects area. >> It's as if they are LINKED to the inbox. see the images MLO1 and MLO2 >> >> Thanks >> >> On Saturday, November 8, 2014 9:18:22 AM UTC-5, Jay wrote: >> >>> John (Cesta), >>> >>> Do you mean your active/open actions when you say Inbox? In MLO, the >>> inbox is just a folder of tasks. You move a task out and it stays there >>> until you manually move them back in. >>> >>> In case you are synchronising between devices, there is a special folder >>> called <Inbox> in which the tasks you add are stored initially, until you >>> manually move them out to different projects or folders. I usually do not >>> keep anything in my inbox for more than a day at the most. >>> >>> Perhaps a screenshot of your setup would help us understand your problem >>> better. >>> >>> Thanks and regards, >>> Jay >>> >>> >>> On Thursday, 6 November 2014 21:48:04 UTC, John Cesta wrote: >>>> >>>> This is my second go round with mlo. I stopped using it in March. I >>>> like it but it was getting difficult to use. >>>> >>>> Now I'm back. The inbox thing still puzzles me. Number one, why is it >>>> so difficult to get items out of the inbox? It seems no matter what I do >>>> they are always there. >>>> >>>> I have resorted to creating a seperate folder in the inbox to store my >>>> items so the inbox doesn't get cluttered. But this doesn't seem too >>>> efficient. >>>> >>>> I don't know. I'm not at wits end yet but my GPS is set for it. >>>> >>>> I see there are lots of methods and theories especially Lisa's. >>>> >>>> Is there not a flag or property available to set a task to to put it >>>> somewhere? Am i missing something? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> John >>>> >>>> PS: I use android tablet and phone and PC. >>>> >>>> -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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/ea9bc208-1902-497e-8875-26744b299ab6%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
