I am looking for advice on creating Daily View with Importance & Urgency

[althegr...@gmail.com]

Hi to Everyone

 

Dwight's posts on his Daily View has inspired my implementation of a Daily View!

 

Here are some of my notes then some questions that have arisen that I would like anyone's thoughts on.

 

Notes:

From the Post: Re: [MLO] Manual sort order sync.

 

Here is how I deal with it. This may not be a good answer for you, but it works for me and it might be interesting for you to think about.

 

I assign "importance" values consistent with the order in which I want things to happen.

 

 

200 is for something that absolutely has to be next.

Urgent things and emergencies go in 191-199.

They are numbered between 170 to 190.  - (My First things in the Morning Checklist)

I have a checklist of things that I want to get done in the first hour of every day before I move on to the day's projects.

 Do you get the idea?

 

Most people only use importance values from 100(default) to 200. I use them all.

Then, if I have something I have decided to work on today I turn on the star.

 

So I might have several un-started projects around #90 priority but one of them, that I want to start today, will be starred.

So when I get to #90 in my list, the starred one stands out.

 

My "Daily" view is sorted

• first by importance,
• then by starred, and

• then by date modified.

 

 

I execute tasks based on my Daily view.

 

There's a context that makes it a part of every to-do list until it's done (?Today)

and one that makes it disappear off of every to-do list until the next review.

 

 

 

My Inquiry:

 

1. Do you use Urgency? If so in what way?

2. Is having a "Default View" as a base to create New Views on a good idea? Like Dwight's idea to have a Context of ?Today  and a Context the excludes tasks, that is in every View?
1. This question comes from how to implement

There's a context that makes it a part of every to-do list until it's done (?Today)

and one that makes it disappear off of every to-do list until the next review.

3. Suggestions on what categories to have in the Important list?
1. This comes from

200 is for something that absolutely has to be next.

Urgent things and emergencies go in 191-199.

They are numbered between 170 to 190.  - (My First things in the Morning Checklist)

I have a checklist of things that I want to get done in the first hour of every day before I move on to the day's projects.

It would be great to have suggestions for the Importance levels to fill out the under 170 portion. I did see that the 40 area includes items to read.

 

4. Should ALL the tasks be in the Daily view OR should they be filtered down to a smaller amount? If so, what criteria might be suggested?
1. This from the idea  interesting things to read are at priority 40. If there are Lots of tasks above 40 how does one ever get down to 40?  :)  Should the amount of tasks be limited in order to get to 40? Perhaps the Start date is what limits what shows up or a context that includes or excludes many tasks.

 

 

 My many thanks to Dwight and all of you! You have really helped my understanding of how to use the many tools in MLO!

Too many inquires? If so, perhaps just a thought or two on any one of them would be appreciated.

 

-Al