Time to setup EVERYTHING....

[Nigel Peters]

Hi folks

I’ve been a subscriber to MLO for a couple of years, am in awe of its power and x-platform integration, but I’ve only scratched the surface, because of time, but also because I’m a terrible perfectionist. I hate starting things that a I suspect I’ll never get to finish to a certain standard!

So how long to people use to setup a system for ALL your home/domestic tasks. Asking about work stuff probably too specific to be useful - but I am in real estate if there are any realtors out there using MLO.

CHEERS

Nigel 

[Stéph]

Hello Nigel. I can't really measure how long it took to get my system right, because it was done in a series of improvements and tweaks (as all good development projects are). In fact, I think that MLO is probably quite perfectionist-unfriendly, because you can spend too much time modifying everything to be just how you want it. Just remember, though, that the important thing is to capture the tasks. If you find a better way of grouping or categorising them so that you just focus on a manageable quantity at any time, you can then add that category (eg flag, context or text tag) or group your tasks into different folders later.

In my case, I found that what worked for me was to minimise the number of different parameters I set for a task. 

I use contexts to set Contexts as per David Allen's "Getting Things Done" (GTD). 

I use flags just to identify my roles and goals (for my annual review).

My folders and subfolders are organised into four areas of life (personal, home, work, community), then roles (husband, father, friends, home maintenance,,, or electrical engineer, HazOp facilitator, line manager, functional safety engineer), then projects and sub-projects.

I use a fairly limited set of views:

Outline, Task List, projects grouped by project status, tasks grouped by goal, starred or role.

That's pretty-much it. Good luck with setting up your own system - I suggest you only make it as complex as absolutely necessary and spend more of your time doing.

Stéphane

[roland]

yes, I am a real estate agent and I am using MLO since 2006 for business, private and church (I am a pastor too).

Recently I switched to Todoist. Why? Because they have a nice and easy web interface, so I can use it easily with Ubuntu at home, on my Win10 PC at work (I used the portable version from MLO there so far), on my Android phone and on my Android Tablet with an Android client. They have not all the features that MLO offers, but the things I need. It is easy to use and available on all systems I use. 

You have to pay 3,-/per month for Todoist. But I also have to pay for all regular upgrades on MLO for Windows and Android and for the cloudsync, which is about the same price or even more.

cheers

Roland