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Posted by Dr Andus
Apr 3, 2018 at 10:22 AM
Dellu wrote:
I like this idea of Life Calendar:
>https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html
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>It makes me evaluate my life from the end to the current moment.
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>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.
Posted by Dr Andus
Apr 3, 2018 at 10:28 AM
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.
Posted by Dellu
Apr 3, 2018 at 04:31 PM
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).
Posted by doablesoftware
Apr 4, 2018 at 03:16 AM
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
Posted by Dellu
May 23, 2018 at 04:00 PM
doablesoftware wrote:
that is so cool
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>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.