Lisa Stroyan's Use Model

[Lisa Stroyan]

I've put together a blog post on how I currently have MLO set up to work for me, in case anyone would like to see it all in one place.

http://stroyan.net/lisasblog/2012/mylifeorganized/

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Lisa

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Lisa Stroyan, mailto: lstr...@gmail.com

[Richard Collings]

Hi Lisa

 

Haven’t read it in full (by Pocket’ed it to read on the bus/tube) but a lot of what you have said chimes with my approach /situation – particularly (and sadly):

 

(4) I have not solved the perpetual “there are too many tasks in my system and I’ll never be able to do them all” problem. My system seems to evolve to pushing more and tasks below the current priority line. The answer to the universe is 42. Other than that, I’ve got nothin’.

 

J

 

Richard

 

 

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[Kent]

Lisa,

Thank you for sharing your approach to using MLO Desktop and Android.  The information was very, very helpful to me.  I plan to implement several of your ideas immediately.  I think the whole MLO community has benefited from your posts on this forum, and I'm grateful that you described your "system" for us.

Kent

[Sean]

Thanks for this Lisa. I am just now evaluating MLO after years of using various apps (Lifebalance, Things, 2Do, Omnifocus) that always seemed to be missing something. I have read and tried various methodologies (mostly variations of GTD). The flexibility of MLO impresses me, and your approach makes a lot of sense to me as well. I will definitely try some of your suggestions.

Sean

[Pgr]

I have a question though...

Lisa states this in the blog entry:

<Inbox> – currently this has Goal=Week set, to force these tasks to show up in my daily lists (more on that later). Since Goal is inherited, as soon as I move new tasks to their proper homes, they will no longer be Week goals unless I manually set it.

I tried this but my new tasks don't get created with (inherited) week-goal flag. I suppose that they will inherit that if they get moved to the Inbox, but it seems newly created tasks don't inherit properties from their parent.

Am I missing something?

Thanks
Pgr

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[Lisa Stroyan]

Perhaps "inherit" is the wrong word. It's more that tasks use their parent's Goal status as their default if they do not override it. 

Tasks only inherit the Goal when they are sitting under a parent with it set and they don't have their own Goal. It's not like context inheritance, where Context is changed on the child tasks. Instead, all children of tasks marked with Week goal will show up in filters that filter Week goals, even though looking under properties on those children will not show it as a Week goal.

If you are familiar with "Hide-in-todo" which hides a whole branch in the todo list, it works that same way. The same as dates also -- MLO uses the parent's date unless the child overrides the date.

The usefulness of my strategy only becomes apparent when I'm looking at the Todo tab with a view such as "Active by Goal".  Tasks in my Inbox will show up here, because Inbox has Goal=Week set, but once the task is moved out of Inbox to a parent that doesn't have a Goal set, it disappears from the Todo view.

Does that help? 

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[Pgr]

Ok, it makes sense now. I tested it on my Android and it works as you explained.

The tasks I create do not have "Goal for week" set, but still show in "Active goals" as long as they sit inside the "Inbox" folder which is marked as a "week goal".

I find this a bit convoluted, but at least now I know how it works... :-)

Thank you for your help.

[Lisa Stroyan]

Exactly. 

Yes, it is a bit convoluted; Inherited goals are designed to use for projects, etc -- it's probably not intended as a property to be used on inbox, I just use it as a trick to force me to process my inbox tasks to get them out of my sight.

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