GTD isn't really a project management system to manage costs and timesheets, it's a task-management system that is supposed to keep you busy working on things that are important. Having messed around behind the scenes with mGTD for a while now, I can tell you that option 1 could probably be done but no one will do it. It would be a huge time investment because there isn't a structure for that sort of tracking. If you really do have all of your Projects completely fleshed out in mGTD with all the Next and Future actions, you could always just put the Costs and Times in your actions and then add them up yourself at the end of the Project. You'd do better with some project management software specifically made for cost and time tracking. I use MSProject but I work for a big company that can afford to buy it for me.
As for option 2, I agree with ike. Tiddlers aren't meant for deadlines; they are meant for tasks that need doing right now/today. For me, that task is one of either "review this S/M project to see if it's feasible now" or "do this quarterly report." I wouldn't dare use a tickler to remind that something is due today. If my GTD is working right, I should be doing all my Next actions until it's done; if my calendar tells me (and ike is right, there isn't one in mGTD) that it is due soon, then I need to re-evaluate some of my unrelated Next actions. On Jan 27, 6:54 am, 4reigner <4reig...@web.de> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm currently evaluating MonkeyGTD. I like it's adaptability very > much, other desktop and web applications did not serve me well in the > past. As I'm not a programmer, right now I feel a little helpless > implementing some of my requirements to my personal GTD-system. > > 1. > I would like to integrate estimated and actual time fields to actions > and be able to do some statistics in project context (total time > estimated total actual time for actions and subprojects). Reading the > MonkeyGTD wiki, this group, the blog and checking google didn't help > me out with that. The only thing in that direction I found was > "TaskMacro" onhttp://tiddlyvault.tiddlyspot.com. Now I don't have > any clou how to integrate that in MonkeyGTD. I would warmly welcome > some hints or kind of a howto! > > 2. > Concerning due dates I read about the approach to use ticklers for > reminding oneself of deadlines etc, but don't like that approach. > Instead I would like to be able to set a due date for actions or > projects via a calendar or via hand input. Is there any way to do > this, that I - as programming greenhorn - might be able to handle? I > don't fear modificating some system tiddlers like TiddlerButtons or > whatever. > > Thanks a lot for suggestions and hints. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GTD TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to gtd-tiddlyw...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to gtd-tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gtd-tiddlywiki?hl=en.
