Is there a good reason for not having Quarterly goals?

[J Smith]

Hello

I find it strange the there are no Quarterly goals. I understand that this has been requested many times already. Is there any good reason for not having Quarterly Goals?

J

[Dwight]

Hi, John.  Do you actually need five levels of [starred+goal]? Or could it be that the four you have are enough,  but you wish the names to be changed. I am in the second group: I need quarterly goal but I don't need yearly goals.  So I treat yearly to mean quarterly,  which specifically for me means that my daily to-do list includes all tasks which have not been modified in the last 91 days and that have yearly goal set.
-Dwight
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[J Smith]

Ayeee....  I'm still quite new to Goals. So I'm not 100% sure how they work in functional terms, beyond that they appear in a section in the Major Goals view if ticked.

> my daily to-do list includes all tasks which have not been modified in
> the last 91 days and that have yearly goal set.

Are you saying that you have created a special view that just shows Tasks ticked as being a Yearly goal, but which have not been modified in the last quarter? Why does it matter if they have been modified?  Does a monthly or yearly goal actually expire a month or year after it was last modified? If so what happens after it expires?

J

[Dwight Arthur]

Hi, John. One of the really great things about MLO is that you can tweak and adjust it to match your own way of thinking about your tasks. "Yearly Goals" is clearly meant to flag tasks that you aspire to accomplish sometime this year. I understand that can be a powerful thing for a lot of people but it really does not do much for me personally, so I used the power of MLO to change what the "yearly goals" attribute does. For me, it means that this is a task that can afford to sit for a while, but if it sits longer then 90 days it would be time to give it a bump. 

It's not that I have a special report just to show me overdue quarterly goal tasks. What happens is that I have a report showing things that I should consider working on today, and any task that's a quarterly goal (which means that I have ticked the "yearly goal" box) and has gone 90 days without being touched gets onto the daily view. There are maybe a dozen other conditions that would get a task onto the daily view, like for example context=@waiting and start date has passed. 

What happens if the date passes? Answer: the task will be on by daily list day after day. I hate things to be on the daily list day after day so, sooner or later I will do the task, or I will give up and cancel it, or maybe I will think of a different way of approaching the project so it will really get done, or maybe I will move it to the someday/never folder.