For me: Folders - organizational/containers and could be areas of life - Work, Personal, Family. At work it could be departments (HR, IT, etc). A folder organizing recurring tasks. This approach is blended with contexts.
Projects - a group of specific tasks. When they're done, the project is done. To me the beautiful secret of projects is encoding the project name. For example, Michael has four weddings to shoot. They all have the same basic tasks but they're in different stages. Tagging the parent task as a project could give you the following in your to-do list due today. [BOC Wedding] - Collect Money [Lisa Wedding] - Verify Reception Location [Robisme Wedding] - Upload proofs to website -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en.