The approach of putting an item to sleep is not easy to set up. But it saves a lot of the because I have found that the use of dates is an all-or-non proposition. Sleeping tasks allow me to have non-dated items that a simple Important and urgent.
On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 10:14 PM, Dwight <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, birdvibe. I'm not sure that I follow how you put items to sleep. > Possibly because I have never used autoformatting (because it's supported > only on Windows, which I am using less and less) > > I often find a task which meets all of my criteria for a spot on my top > to-do list but which for some reason I do not want to do today. I would > like to make them go away from my to-do list until tomorrow. For many of my > tasks which have no start/due date, it's just a matter of setting start > date to tomorrow which is only a few taps. But for tasks that already have > start or due dates, especially recurring tasks, that might have undesirable > repercussions. So I keep a task called "wait for tomorrow" with tomorrow's > star date and highest importance. Every morning this task appears at the > top of my top to-do list. I duplicate it, mark it completed (which causes > yesterday's postponed tasks to appear) and reschedule the new duplicate for > one day into the future. Then if I want to postpone a take I add a > dependency on "wait for tomorrow"This whole process seems clumsy to me but > I have gotten fast at it and I only do it once a day. > > -Dwight > > On 8/15/2016 11:43 AM, [email protected] wrote: > >> Hi Chris: >> >> Many months after you wrote that glorious reply regarding, inheriting >> sub-items, I am only now noticing it. Sorry about that. >> >> Yes, I do, do a lot of filtering using custom views, but now it's not as >> relevant as it was back when I initially wrote up that question. >> >> Because of the extra work involved with management of dates, I just gave >> up on that approach altogether...in favor of a this simplified approach: >> >> 1) I categorize all tasks into main categories using color coded >> customer formatting. I run several businesses and each business is a >> main item. >> 2) I flag the items I need to focus on each day ACROSS the main items. >> This way in the flag view, important tasks a projects from each business >> show up. >> 3) I put to sleep items for X amount of time important items that are >> too important to unflag but which I don't want to distract me. I do this >> using Automatic Formatting. Items that are "sleeping" are grayed out >> for anywhere from 15 minutes to 8 hours. >> >> If there's anyone else who uses "putting items to sleep" let's discuss. >> >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 12:27 PM, chrisleeuk <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Many questions on the MLO forum are hard to understand, this is >> because the way people think and organize things within MLO can be >> very different. >> >> As far as I'm aware it's not possible to set a global option that >> will prevent inherited dates in sub tasks. >> You can of course uncheck the 'Inherit parent dates' option, or >> remove the dates , but only after the sub task has been created. >> >> That's not to say such an option wouldn't be useful to your way of >> working. >> >> However beyond this answer, I think we need to look at what the >> alternative options are. >> >> It looks like you are trying to create some kind of list of high >> level parent tasks, without showing all the small detail of the >> individual sub-tasks? >> >> Obviously dates are important to what you are trying to do, as you >> are trying to get a view on today's workload. >> >> From my way of thinking (and this is just an opinion) outside of >> your actual view, it would seem logical that sub-tasks would have >> either the same date as the parent or an earlier date if I set one. >> >> I could be wrong, but I think the issue is, that your trying to >> remove the inherited sub-task dates to achieve your high level view? >> >> If I was trying to achieve this kind of thing myself, I wouldn't >> fight with the dates, I'd probably enable the flag column in the >> outline view (right clicking on column header and select 'flag') >> >> Then I'd flag the important 'parent' tasks that I want to appear in >> my non-hierarchical view (by right clicking the flag column. You >> can manage and create flags from the tools menu. >> >> Then I'd create a custom view, that shows tasks today that are >> flagged with my special 'high level' flag. >> >> This isn't very automatic of course, but your only going to need to >> flag the single parent tasks, rather than each child one. >> >> For me this is the only way it would work, as I have quite a complex >> hierarchy of children of children etc and it would be impossible for >> MLO to know what level the tasks should be shown at. >> >> You could use other ways, such as setting contexts only on the >> parents, or staring items you want to appear and filtering on that. >> >> Another option, is if all your parent tasks are in a single folder, >> or a few folders, you could create an advanced filtering rule, that >> states that in order to be visible in your list the ParentName must >> be a certain value: >> >> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-FGf-HqhxoDw/VlN1o76_ISI/ >> AAAAAAAAGjQ/B-_szN82e-I/s1600/Capture.JPG> >> >> >> That way, anything that does not have a specific parent, i.e sub >> tasks, would be filtered out of the view. >> >> This is of course moving towards the advanced side of MLO, so it >> will depend on how comfortable you are with the software. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> To post to this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized >> <http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/d747913d- >> a527-476c-93af-ddfbec93a7a1%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/d747913d- >> a527-476c-93af-ddfbec93a7a1%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium= >> email&utm_source=footer>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Thanks, >> Eddie >> ------------------------------- >> 818 338-6061 >> Skype: major.bilion >> >> <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/eddie-kwong/4/54a/620> >> >> -- >> 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] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/CALBn8Kp_ >> siSAz6PJE-Em69ssidGHuNdUn%3DrftHFZ7if3Now-Sg%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/CALBn8Kp_ >> siSAz6PJE-Em69ssidGHuNdUn%3DrftHFZ7if3Now-Sg%40mail.gmail. >> com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ms > gid/mylifeorganized/85d21191-3335-4ad7-a4f6-b0ac5d078b8b%40dwightarthur.us > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Thanks, Eddie ------------------------------- 818 338-6061 Skype: major.bilion <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/eddie-kwong/4/54a/620> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. 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