I like this idea of Life Calendar: https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html

It makes me evaluate my life from the end to the current moment.


Do you guys know any calendar application that helps schedule task (life) on a top down basis?

Thanks for bumming me out.
;)

Jon

I am sorry...
Just fact of life that we have limited time on this earth. It is sometime wise to know what to prioritize; details suck our lives that we lose the big picture....might feel bad when we latter evaluate our life's journey.

Not helping...
:o))

Jon

Ha. Looks like I'm entering into the last few lines of that calendar, so "life planning" doesn't seem like a fruitful activity. Funny -- when I was 18 I had no interest in planning anything beyond lunch. Now that the sunset is over the horizon, I have no interest in planning anything beyond lunch.

Jon Polish wrote:

Not helping...
:o))

Jon

Dellu wrote:

I like this idea of Life Calendar:
https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html

It makes me evaluate my life from the end to the current moment.

Do you guys know any calendar application that helps schedule task
(life) on a top down basis?

It should be possible to recreate that in a Google Sheet, then make the Sheet open automatically as a tab when Chrome is launched, so you can be faced with it every day.

I'd reverse the order though in ascending order, so you could always face first the time remaining, rather than having to scroll through time elapsed.

WorkFlowy's tags could be used for this as well, such as this implementation of Seinfeld's Don't Break the Chain method:

https://youtu.be/QaAeWI0JR_A?t=4m59s

But it would be a rather manual process.

Dr Andus wrote:

It should be possible to recreate that in a Google Sheet, then make the Sheet open automatically as a tab when Chrome is launched, so you can be faced with it every day.

Exactly, I tried a bit on the a spreadsheet.

I am able to emulate the life-plan calendar with the spreadsheet. One issue I have with it is I cannot plan and zoom into the week that I am in right NOW. The detail become harder to zoom in.

I am now experimenting with Aeon Timeline 2 and Tinderbox. Aeon Timeline specially seems capable of displaying the big picture (life-time calendar) as well as zoom into the individual pieces (weeks and days).

that is so cool

what i would do is ask myself if something is helpful to do and if it would affect the next 10 years in a significant way

still would need some notification or reminder software for that however

doablesoftware wrote:

that is so cool

what i would do is ask myself if something is helpful to do and if it
would affect the next 10 years in a significant way

Exactly. That is the whole point: not to spend time on tasks that would have little contribution to the bigger effect (evaluated in 10 years). Prioritization.

still would need some notification or reminder software for that however

I have been thinking of ways to sync Aeon with either the Todo apps or the calendar apps.

The TODO apps like Things have a fundamental problem of scheduling. You cannot plan your day and week with those apps; they are just not fit to it. Omnifocus can do it, but I find the process untenable in the long run (so painful process to insert starting and ending/due date)--kind of work around; not natively supported to schedule the day. 2DO has a better system to schedule my days and weeks. Again, not very fluent.

Aeon is still the best choice for scheduling the week or the day. But, it cannot remind me.
I wish Aeon can sync back and forth with the calendar app.

Today I learned the existence of a complete system of project management by starting from the big to the small. It is called WBS (work breakdown structure).

I always felt the need to look from the bigger picture to the small details. But, I never knew people have developed a complete system to it.

A WBS is a standard procedure for project management. E.g., see the guidelines from the Project Management Institute (PMI) in their Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK). PMI-certified project managers are tested on WBS and other standards. Government agencies (Defense, Transportation, etc.) require contractors and others to follow prescribed work breakdown structures -- which at times can reach very significantly granular levels of detail. Project cost estimates and performance tracking are at the WBS level.

Dellu wrote:

Today I learned the existence of a complete system of project management
by starting from the big to the small. It is called WBS (work breakdown
structure).

I always felt the need to look from the bigger picture to the small
details. But, I never knew people have developed a complete system to
it.

Paul Korm wrote:

A WBS is a standard procedure for project management. E.g., see the
guidelines from the Project Management Institute (PMI) in their Project
Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK). PMI-certified project managers
are tested on WBS and other standards. Government agencies (Defense,
Transportation, etc.) require contractors and others to follow
prescribed work breakdown structures -- which at times can reach very
significantly granular levels of detail. Project cost estimates and
performance tracking are at the WBS level.

Interesting. I never heard of this methodology. i have heard of Agile, Kanban, Scrum and of course GTD. These methods are good for some cases. But, I felt that they have inverted the steps by focusing on the details without showing the big pictures (general purpose; or object that one want to accomplish; then break it down to components so that they will be finally "tasks"). Just starting to collect tasks before figuring the core directions to focus on felt incomplete,directionless journey.

Thank you for explaining Paul, as always. I have to look into WBS.