Re: Manual Ordering and Dynamic Priority

2022-09-10 Thread Eduardo Suarez-Santana
I'd like to show some use cases as examples of long lists that I do not consider micromanagement. I started managing tasks with pen and paper, then Palm, Remember the Milk, and others. None of them worked fine. I reached Org-mode because I have read about it and it was in my try-list. It has not b

Re: Manual Ordering and Dynamic Priority

2022-09-09 Thread Tim Cross
Rudolf Adamkovič writes: > Tim Cross writes: > >> - Life is about getting things done, not planning to get things >> done. Overly complex management of your tasks is very likely to >> result in more time spent managing the tasks than actually doing >> the tasks. > > Let me share a slight

Re: Manual Ordering and Dynamic Priority

2022-09-09 Thread Rudolf Adamkovič
Tim Cross writes: > - Life is about getting things done, not planning to get things > done. Overly complex management of your tasks is very likely to > result in more time spent managing the tasks than actually doing > the tasks. Let me share a slightly different experience. I used to min

Re: Manual Ordering and Dynamic Priority

2022-09-06 Thread Ihor Radchenko
Eduardo Suárez writes: > My main problem is, given a file with lots of tasks, to create a "preorder" of > tasks to avoid the fear of missing out tasks when planning or selecting the > top > priority tasks. To review the full list of tasks takes very long (my estimate > is O(n^2)). Reordering the

Re: Manual Ordering and Dynamic Priority

2022-09-06 Thread Eduardo Suárez
Thanks a lot for all your answers. I've been thinking about it and I've come up with another solution. My main problem is, given a file with lots of tasks, to create a "preorder" of tasks to avoid the fear of missing out tasks when planning or selecting the top priority tasks. To review the full l

Re: Manual Ordering and Dynamic Priority

2022-09-02 Thread Ihor Radchenko
Eduardo Suarez writes: > I have lots of tasks (todos) and I would like to create a long backlog based > on > my perceived priority. > > I was thinking to deal with them in the following way: > > - divide them in groups (categories or similar), > - manually sort priority for every group, > - merg

Re: Manual Ordering and Dynamic Priority

2022-08-31 Thread Tim Cross
Eduardo Suarez writes: > I have lots of tasks (todos) and I would like to create a long backlog based > on > my perceived priority. > > I was thinking to deal with them in the following way: > > - divide them in groups (categories or similar), > - manually sort priority for every group, > - me

Re: Manual Ordering and Dynamic Priority

2022-08-31 Thread indieterminacy
Hello Eduardo, On 31-08-2022 18:13, Eduardo Suarez wrote: I have lots of tasks (todos) and I would like to create a long backlog based on my perceived priority. I was thinking to deal with them in the following way: - divide them in groups (categories or similar), - manually sort priority for