Manish <mailtomanish.sha...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> This is for the GTD orgers out there. I've taken the article written by >> Charles as a basis for my GTD implementation. In the end, it's all about >> what works for you, but I'd like to get some insights/opinions from you: For >> Next Actions, are you using a single list OR you organize them >> hierarchically under each project (in the projects list)? >> >> I started with the second one, putting each next action (TODO) item under >> its correspondent project, however, it quickly became too bloated, and a mix >> of projects, sub-projects and next-actions. Of course, org helps there with >> sparse trees and other functions to filter trees, but still, I found it was >> too complex, albeit more specific and I did felt I was more "organized", >> even though I was getting lost. >> >> So, I just let go of my obsession about the perfect thing and decided to try >> a single Next Actions list, together with a Projects list. The next actions >> is a single list with all the actionable items from all the projects. I've >> lost the relationship between a next action item and a project, but I can do >> this easily by just looking at the action, having the system tell me is not >> that important. > > Usually, you define all actions for a project under the same hierarchy. You > can decide how you want actions to be designated "next" (and projects to be > designated "project") -- using keywords or tags and have a custom agenda > command collect the next actions for you from all agenda files in a single > list.
I define NEXT actions as a tag on some TODO item under the project hierarchy. I then pick NEXT actions off of the custom agenda view for NEXT actions using agenda filtering to limit the total number of things I'm looking at. -Bernt _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
