MLO: weekly planning
I will begin to grapple with the topic of task planning techniques with my approach to planning for the coming week.
Tools: GTD (Getting Things Done) , MLO (MyLifeOrganized) .
"Infrastructure"
As a template in MLO (despite the persistent recommendations of old-timers and gurus of GTD communities, to create the structure of their system independently from scratch), the “GTDZoom4FocusedAction” was used.
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Postponed projects vs Plans for the week
For short-term planning (for example, for the coming week) within the GTD system, it is important to set up a filtering system for the ToDo list.
It should not get things that are not necessary to perform at the moment (the moment of viewing the sheet or the time of activity of the context).
The second important aspect is the distribution of tasks and projects into groups:
- current tasks (scheduled for the next week) - are divided into sections (SingleStep, QuickList ...) (with appropriate contexts assigned) ;
- “I want to do” (what I WANT to do) - the section is hidden from ToDo
- “must do” (obligations to someone to do something) - get into ToDo by passing a filter by date (DueDate or StartDate);
- “someday” (“it would be good if it were done”) - the section is hidden from ToDo ;
- “Incubator” (here the projects are “ripening” and are preparing for the transition to the sections “for execution”.
Weekly review
Planning involves deciding which projects and tasks will come to the fore and will be completed in the next period (in my case, a week).
I do this:
- I focus on domestic (or work) affairs
- I expand all the branches
- I move the right things from the "archival" branches to the "active"
- open ToDo
- I put the date on "in a week"
- I correct dates in which it is necessary to solve this or that problem.
Then during the week I just open ToDo and see the entire list of things planned for a particular day.
If necessary (I didn’t have time or circumstances have changed) I transfer tasks to other days.
Hint:
If project tasks clog up the list with a large number of items, you need to check the “Complete subtasks in order” box.
Then the project tasks fall out in ToDo in turn.
Tools: GTD (Getting Things Done) , MLO (MyLifeOrganized) .
"Infrastructure"
As a template in MLO (despite the persistent recommendations of old-timers and gurus of GTD communities, to create the structure of their system independently from scratch), the “GTDZoom4FocusedAction” was used.
')
Postponed projects vs Plans for the week
For short-term planning (for example, for the coming week) within the GTD system, it is important to set up a filtering system for the ToDo list.
It should not get things that are not necessary to perform at the moment (the moment of viewing the sheet or the time of activity of the context).
The second important aspect is the distribution of tasks and projects into groups:
- current tasks (scheduled for the next week) - are divided into sections (SingleStep, QuickList ...) (with appropriate contexts assigned) ;
- “I want to do” (what I WANT to do) - the section is hidden from ToDo
- “must do” (obligations to someone to do something) - get into ToDo by passing a filter by date (DueDate or StartDate);
- “someday” (“it would be good if it were done”) - the section is hidden from ToDo ;
- “Incubator” (here the projects are “ripening” and are preparing for the transition to the sections “for execution”.
Weekly review
Planning involves deciding which projects and tasks will come to the fore and will be completed in the next period (in my case, a week).
I do this:
- I focus on domestic (or work) affairs
- I expand all the branches
- I move the right things from the "archival" branches to the "active"
- open ToDo
- I put the date on "in a week"
- I correct dates in which it is necessary to solve this or that problem.
Then during the week I just open ToDo and see the entire list of things planned for a particular day.
If necessary (I didn’t have time or circumstances have changed) I transfer tasks to other days.
Hint:
If project tasks clog up the list with a large number of items, you need to check the “Complete subtasks in order” box.
Then the project tasks fall out in ToDo in turn.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/21446/
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