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What is Mentor?
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Mentor
The future of task management
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We all have the same amount of time available to us each week:
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The first step in achieving what we want from this time is to consider how we want to spend it. Mentor uses contexts for this -
you might choose:
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On Monday, for example, much of your day might be spent at work. You might make some time available in the evening for home tasks.
Within Mentor, you allocate time to your different contexts by creating time slots - chunks of time dedicated to tasks within that context. Your week might look like this:
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All your tasks are then recorded against a context, along with their importance, urgency and size.
This is similar to the way you might record a task in Agenda or other "task list" tools, but
Mentor makes it easy to enter information by using categories each of which has its own symbol.
The size of a task, for example, is defined as:
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It's easy to decide which of these categories a task falls into.
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Mentor has powerful features to display your tasks including filtering, sorting and the
ability to view task lists in many different ways.
Where Mentor really wins over other tools, however, is that as well as managing all your tasks,
Mentor considers the time that you have available to do them,
by making sure that each task is scheduled to an appropriate time slot.
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Inevitably, there are times which are not available to do tasks - Mentor calls these appointments.
In your Agenda, you might have meetings at work on Tuesday and Thursday, a Dentist appointment on Wednesday night, and plans to go shopping on Sunday.
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Mentor synchronises with Agenda to merge these with your time slots, reducing the time available where it
overlaps with an appointment in your Agenda.
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In this way, Mentor helps you to build a credible schedule, assigning tasks to dates only when you have time available
to complete them. As your schedule changes - adding more tasks, changing appointments, and as time moves on - Mentor
reschedules, automatically building a new schedule incorporating all the tasks that are not yet complete.
When tasks are overdue, or there are too many to fit into your available time, Mentor alerts you to this fact
and helps you to make a decision on how best to deal with it.
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Investing a small amount of time each day recording your schedule in Mentor can reward you many times over with
completed tasks and saved time, helping you to achieve what is important in your life.
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Getting Started
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All the different concepts and features in Mentor can be daunting at first.
This web site contains a lot of material help you release
the power of Mentor step by step, as you exercise more of its potential.
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the quick start section takes you through your first steps with Mentor
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within Mentor there is context-sensitive help to explain what symbols mean.
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the manual, available on-line, describes the method behind Mentor,
as well as how to use the software.
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the FAQ answers many questions that other users have asked over the years
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the discussion group let's you have your say, and ask questions
and opinions of other Mentor users
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you can always email WuLiSoft with questions, suggestions or comments
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