Hello everyone,
I just joined this forum after following it for several weeks. I am currently on the fence as to whether GTD via OF style is for me or not. Like most, I've looked at most task/list tools and have been gravitating toward OF as of late. However, I just discovered a feature of ToodleDo that really impressed me (more like blew me away). I'll describe this and I would appreciate your thoughts and comments on whether this is possible (and if so, how it works) in OF.
I was looking at my tasks in ToodleDo and noticed a grouping by Importance. I couldn't find anywhere where importance was a field that I could edit. I finally learned that the system calculates the "Importance" of a task based on this formula: Importance = 2+P+S+D where P=priority, S="is it starred (0 or 1)", D=0 if due-date is non-existent or further than 14 days out, 1 if due-date is between 7 and 14 days out, 2 if due-date is between 2 and 7 days out, 3 if due-date is tomorrow, 5 if due-date is today, and 6 if overdue, and some other criteria. This hints at workflow processing.
So this "Importance" rating then gets assigned to all tasks and is used as a basis for including certain tasks on a "HotList"
You don't put things on the HotList directly, the app does it based on the Importance rating.
The key thing is that the importance of a task is dynamic and increases as the task comes closer to becoming due.
So the end result is that tasks will automatically pop into your HotList as their importance rating gets higher and you can then act upon them. It requires no further input from you.
I found this feature to be incredibly useful and was wondering how this would work in OF for iPad.
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
George
I just joined this forum after following it for several weeks. I am currently on the fence as to whether GTD via OF style is for me or not. Like most, I've looked at most task/list tools and have been gravitating toward OF as of late. However, I just discovered a feature of ToodleDo that really impressed me (more like blew me away). I'll describe this and I would appreciate your thoughts and comments on whether this is possible (and if so, how it works) in OF.
I was looking at my tasks in ToodleDo and noticed a grouping by Importance. I couldn't find anywhere where importance was a field that I could edit. I finally learned that the system calculates the "Importance" of a task based on this formula: Importance = 2+P+S+D where P=priority, S="is it starred (0 or 1)", D=0 if due-date is non-existent or further than 14 days out, 1 if due-date is between 7 and 14 days out, 2 if due-date is between 2 and 7 days out, 3 if due-date is tomorrow, 5 if due-date is today, and 6 if overdue, and some other criteria. This hints at workflow processing.
So this "Importance" rating then gets assigned to all tasks and is used as a basis for including certain tasks on a "HotList"
You don't put things on the HotList directly, the app does it based on the Importance rating.
The key thing is that the importance of a task is dynamic and increases as the task comes closer to becoming due.
So the end result is that tasks will automatically pop into your HotList as their importance rating gets higher and you can then act upon them. It requires no further input from you.
I found this feature to be incredibly useful and was wondering how this would work in OF for iPad.
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
George