Question: Only 1 task from the planned list visible at a time

[Krzysztof G]

Hello,

I would like to ask, is there a way in the MLO app to set the list with only one task visible at a time? I want to avoid looking in the morning on the BIG list of tasks, what demotivates me a lot. When I see long list how much I have to do today it's overhelming me and in the and I procrastinate a lot.

I am looking for solution that:
-The day before I can set the list with all my tasks to do for the next day and ordered them by some value like e.g. by importance or priority

- today I open the app and I have visible only one task with the highest priority to do, without needs to look on the whole tasks list,

-When I mark this task as "complete" then the next task (only one) is displayed automatically on my "1 task list" according to the priority/importance that I set yesterday,

The whole idea is similar like in the android app: "One task: Focus and achive your goals" app where you see only one task at a time and you can only focus on it, and the next task from the list is displayed automatically when you mark the previous one as "complete". I looking for similar solution in MLO app because the mentioned one hasn't one percent of features that MLO has.

Best regards,

Christopher

[Richard Emes]

Hi Christopher,

The approach I take is as follows:

1) Pull up list of Next Actions (everything I could do today)

2) Star everything I want to do today

3) Access my view which only shows Starred tasks

4) This Starred view is grouped by Flag. I have three flags; To Do, Ongoing and Complete (a basic Kanban). 

5) I change the flag of the task I want to work on to Ongoing. This highlights the task in Orange.

6) I collapse all the Flag groups apart from Ongoing and then F3 - this creates a new instance of MLO which I drag to my second monitor screen

7) All I can see on my second screen is the highlighted task I'm currrently working on. When that task is complete, I change the flag to Complete which removes the highlight and greys out the task

8) At the end of the day I tick off all the completed tasks (gives me an overview of everything I've achieved that day before I mark them actually complete.)

Hope that helps, sounds a bit complicated but it's quick when you get used to it. Let me know if you have any questions. 

All the best

Richard