As one organizer 7 properties helped me put things in order

Meet guest post Alexander Provincial! This is his first article on Layfhakere, and it is devoted to the planning of his life (ideas, problems, cases, goals and so on. D.).

All the people who are planning or just going to plan their lives, are constantly looking for the most efficient case management techniques and time. And this search can last for years. It's hard to argue with the saying "You are either a life plan, or it happens to you."

You know how to plan in the army? Once a month, all the officers seated in the classroom, where they have to write in a special notebook typical problems of the month, month plan, and a plan each week. This all is painted with colored pencils and approved by the unit commander. After that, forget about the plan until next month, and can honestly say, it was only for show. And if even easier, the FIG nobody needs. I'm 13 years as planned ...

Following the dismissal from the army with my wife were invited to the training "Strategic planning of the next year." And the greatest discovery was that everything that I had planned for a year, carried out in three months. Planning is now "present dostigatelnoe" has become an integral part of my life.

At first it was all on paper. With the development of technology began to look for alternative options for the computer and subsequently mobile gadgets.

In the book "How affairs in order"David Allen said that there is no such software, which would have complete control over the processes of life, business, and so on. D. Perhaps, at the time of this writing, the way it was. But not right now…

I like the search for effective methods stopped after exploring MyLifeOrganized (MLO). This drastically affected the quality of my life, and now I'm focusing only on the fulfillment of the planned affairs.

The MLO also differs from other organizer?

Here is a list of the first seven points, which I would like to tell you today.

1. Hierarchy

The appearance of the main window of the organizer is not limited by any templates or rules. You create your own block diagram of goals, projects, and other tasks that are shown schematically in the hierarchy and are organized in a tree structure.

Over three years of using MLO I had too many plans to build a list of cases and eventually settled on a hierarchy based on the "wheel of life". "The Wheel of Life" - a very powerful psychological technique, comprehensive development in all spheres of human life, which does not allow a businessman to be unhappy in personal relationships, and a good family man and father to stay at home without money. That is my circuit begins with the vital areas (of course, everything is painted in different colors):

• Job;
• business;
• house;
• family and relationships;
• Health and Sports;
• the brightness of life;
• personal development and so on. d.

This allows me to see which sector what goals I set myself which need to pull up, and where the bust with an annual load. Yes, and so it is very convenient if you want to focus on any particular sector.

By the way, in such a hierarchy of task will not be active in the To-Do list until you have made all of its subtasks, and for this special thank you to its internal algorithm for constructing a list of cases To-Do, built in MyLifeOrganized.

2. Automatic scheduling of your affairs

The coolest feature MLO, which I have not seen in any of the organizer - is an automatic ordering List your affairs in view of the problem of priority, which is specified by the start date, due date, importance and urgency tasks. You are in the "Scheme" are asking their task settings and everything! Then the program is an ordered list of To-Do for you.

If you are supporter of manual sorting tasks, there is also such for you ...

3. Flexibility. Works the way you need filters, views, focus, auto-formatting

Flexibility in configuration and functions of the organizer is simply amazing. If we compare with the martial arts, the MLO - a "octagon fighting without rules", which allowed virtually everything. The main thing that it was all efficiently and led to the desired result!

Any kind of planning (GTD, Covey, "Autofocus" and others)! current affairs management! Achievements of goals!

You can:

• To create their own kinds of tasks and lists, which can only draw your imagination in the head.
• Decorate your system with auto-formatting (icons, colors, pouring on you specify rules).
• With focus on one focus any particular direction purpose project.
• Using filters to customize the list of active tasks for any necessary conditions (contexts, timing, execution time, the necessary force, compliance with any other parameters).
• Yes, anything you can do with the functions of the program. But most importantly, that all this can be used only when necessary. Need a simple to-do list - please. The program is not overloaded with unnecessary at this time setting.

I am pronounced as a visual! So for me, all that relates to "see", it is very important to understand. And here it is not even in the beauty of your system, and that is all clearly helps me to be more efficient.

The MLO all this is available via auto-formatting functions. And most importantly - no hard and fast rules, just my imagination:

• All important tasks are highlighted in red and bold.
• With the flags I delegate tasks and fully in control (put the task on hold control, expect performance), as well as perform and supervise the tasks entrusted to guide me (waiting for execution by me).
• Folders of various sections have different colors I have, at the same time can be seen, there is in this task folder or not. It is very convenient and saves time job with the tasks and folders.
• Certain groups of tasks assigned its icons (calls, print), and so on. D.

As they say, better to see once than hear a hundred times, so here's a screenshot of my personal workload in all its glory:

4. depending on

There are tasks that can not be made until some other task will be performed:

• We can not hang a picture until it bought a screw with nut and has not yet borrowed a neighbor's punch.
• We can not cook porridge until it purchased grits and other ingredients.

And many such examples. MyLifeOrganized all these dependencies into account, organizes and displays clearly.

Moreover, you can not just set up a task dependency from each other, but also specify the time interval through which will become active the next task.

for example: delivery of goods. We can not just after sending the application to the warehouse immediately get it and send to the client. Assume, for this you need at least 1 day. Asking dependence delay "1 day", and the dependent task will appear in our To-Do list, not earlier than the day after the blocking problem.

5. Overview

There are challenges and ideas that currently can not be met. Such problems in the GTD are classified as "Someday / Maybe", and they are encouraged to browse the weekly review, so as not to miss out on an important idea at the right moment.

For such tasks MyLifeOrganized there is a separate kind of "review", where you can adjust the frequency with where would you like to view them (refresh memory to make a decision to act or delay still).

Agree, it's not all the ideas, dreams and goals for the future require weekly reminders about yourself.

for example:

• What I want to buy some time, I've set up the program to view once a month to pay.
• Those places I want to visit / rest / travel, I set up for the annual or semi-annual review.

6. sentence analysis

For the convenience of quickly entering tasks at once with certain properties in the program there is a syntactic analysis of the input text.

What is it?

Just write when you enter task "run errands tomorrow at 10:00 recalled -v5 @ Work" and press Alt + Enter, and the program itself assign the task "Execute Order" start and due dates, set reminders, assign the highest degree of importance and need context.

And this is only one example, and MLO in such a huge number of options.

Here are some examples of the handbook MyLifeOrganized correct input, which can be converted on a given date and time:

• tomorrow at 15:00;
• in 5 days;
• Friday (Friday the near future);
• W 11:20;
• Yanv26;
• 3 weeks 14:00;
• 30 min;
• 2 months later;
• today through 1h 25 min;
• in a year.

7. Location-based reminders

Reminders on Android- and iOS-devices can not only be time-bound, but also tied to a particular location.

Remember the example of David Allen about batteries for the flashlight? Well, they say that the system reminded of Grounded batteries in the store, but not at home, when you need a flashlight.

So, MyLifeOrganized remind it in the store.

Output

This organizer can be compared with the personal secretary, who is always with you, completely fixes all the issues of your life and everything reminds time.

In this article, I just stayed on the seven most important moment for me this organizer. I am confident that, having mastered the functionality of this program, you will be the most effective, efficient and nothing ever forget.

If suddenly any planning issues you can not resolve with their organizer or used in you have some specific requirements to your planner and write about it in the comments to this article.

I will prove to you that in this respect, nothing is impossible!

Good luck to you and maximize results.

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