activity journalling / task management - strategies and tools?

Posted by John
Sep 19, 2011 at 02:32 PM

I do keep a journal of all my activities:- on for work, one for personal, one for a particular topic etc
I am using MyLifeOrganized which is a task outliner, with categories etc. However I can use it as a text outliner also.
If I don’t want these Text outlines to appear tasks, I categorize the To-Dos with TASK. I use the filter
to exclude Text outlines when I want to see only To-Dos
http://mylifeorganized.net/

There are other alternatives, but I prefer MLO because it has an Android version
If you have used Ecco, you will like the flexibility of MLO. You add multiple categories to any outline, move, cut & paste them, use saved filters etc

John

jimspoon wrote:
>I keep a detailed journal of my activities. I wonder if any of you do the same? I have
>found it to be a very useful habit. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve needed to
>remember something, and then gone back and found the information in my daily journal.
>Without my journal, my life becomes one big confused blur.
> >Now the trick is to find
>the best way to tie in my journalling with task management. Practically everything I
>do is in some way related to some project or task I’m working on. Ideally, every journal
>entry would get filed under the project and task and subtask to which it relates. That
>way, I could easily review my hierarchy of project / tasks / subtasks, and see the
>related chronology of activities. On any task, I could readily see what I had already
>done, where I left off, and where I needed to pick up again.
> >I need the ability to make
>my journal entries in one big chronological list, and then to be able to go back later
>and categorize each action to the appropriate project / task / subtask. Ideally -
>there would be some intelligence in the program, so that it would monitor what I’m
>typing, and figure out the related projects / tasks and let me confirm them. (I know,
>that’s asking a lot.)
> >I’ve been using Ecco for my journalling, but haven’t yet been
>doing much in the way of categorizing the journal entries. (For me a major problem with
>Ecco are the limits on the number of items. With my heavy journalling, I am very rapidly
>hitting the item number limits and getting error messages.) I’ve experimented a bit
>with InfoQube, but haven’t been able to find the time to work on learning it.
> >So, I am
>just curious regarding what you all might be doing in the way of recording your
>activities, and tracking your status and progress on your various projects, and what
>strategies and software tools you are using for that.
> >Jim
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