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[John Cesta]

What r some ways of getting tasks out of the inbox? I see them accumulate there n

Thanks

[Dwight Arthur]

One way of doing this is documented at http://stroyan.net/lisasblog/2012/mylifeorganized/ in the section on daily maintenance. There are lots of other ways of handling it, most of them very tightly related to the way each user manages his or her queue of things to do.

-Dwight

[John Cesta]

Thanks. The article by Lisa helped a lot. I appreciate it. 

On Thursday, March 20, 2014 9:28:53 PM UTC-4, John Cesta wrote:

[Lisa Stroyan]

I'm glad it was helpful! Here's another trick. On Windows, or If you have a mobile device that supports creating your own views, you can define your own version of the inbox view that excludes tasks that have attributes that indicate those tasks have been processed . this view becomes " new tasks that are urgent to decide about" . Kind of like a pile of bills  separated out from the paper inbox because the paper inbox has gotten too big . :-)

For example, you can have a view that shows any task that is in the inbox that does not have a context, or any task that does not have a star. Then, you can add all of your tasks to the inbox and once you add the context/star or whatever attribute you choose to indicate that you don't need to see it in that new view anymore, and the task will disappear from that view . You will still want to clean out the regular inbox on a regular basis, but this can eliminate the clutter from your daily view of it.

I've also sometimes used the opposite approach, which is to force the inbox tasks into my daily view so that I have to move the tasks to elsewhere in the tree . But when life gets crazy this sometimes gets overwhelming enough to reduce my use of MLO, which is not a good thing. Right now all of my house remodel tasks are in the inbox, but I'm working out of my active Starred view.

I guess the tricky balance is to find a way that keeps us using the program and yet also supports good long-term habits. I've come to think of evolving our systems as a good thing, because even if it doesn't improve the system all that much, at least for me it energizes my thinking .

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[John Cesta]

This was a good idea Lisa. Only problem is it looks as though custom views do not sync to my tablet. Looks great on the computer. Windows.

Perhaps views do sync I just don't see the way.

Maybe I can change the properties of a folder. I'll check that out when i get home.

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