Hello Wallace
I organize my desk (task) inorder to find my car wash business card (task / note) so I can wash my car (depented task) I did count it as saperate tasks. With notes to link them together. OR - only one task with note. You are right. It wasn't clear enough. I was thinking of "organize the desk" as a 3 min task (with the help of the seceretery) and not as a 15+ min task. It's a small desk. this way even if I get loucky and find the card after 1 min I'll probably finish the task because only 2 min left. But also because have other reasons to do it. Let's say its a 15+ min task. So "find the card" will be a saperate task for sure. but these tasks are still linked together in a way that makes me want to represent that link in a clear way I can "represent" the "finding the card" as a seperate task which comes as sibiling (without dependencies) of "organize the sesk" but still they have visible connection it's not easy to find the card as it can be anywhere in one of two desks and I don't want to make more mess by looking just for the card without organising the desk.( so I can put notes with referrence in each task). and still the reason that I do it is because I want to wash my car inorder to sell my car. So if I find the card after 5 min and still have 10 min more (or one hour more) I mark this task as complete. Then I can decide I don't need this task asap and defer it OR delete it/cancel it. OR I can see my other priority and the other parents of the the task in a glance and decide to do it any way or defer it. Since in this case I have more reasons to do it I will probably finish the task. Then I can defer the "home desk" task and move it to another parent, exa: to the folder / goal: clear my head / productivity folder. Or maybe it has already been there all the time. If I wouldn't find the card in my office I would "catch" this opportunity to organize the home desk. Since I already find the card, my priority has changed. Sure, maybe the productivity folder is enough by itself to organize the desk. But maybe not. Just an example :) What happens if the insurance guy meets me in a coffee shop instead of the office? In this case, I would quickly look at the insurence task / project, looking at the "organize" task and exclude it from this project as I don't need my desk to be organized any more. Not for that reason, at list. Then the "productivity clear my head folder" will be the only parent because I found the card and the insurance guy don't meet me at the office. Maybe the "clear my head" parent is important enough to do it anyway asap and maybe not. It's easy to prioritize and reprioritize in this way. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/79139d9b-b8a3-4dca-9ac4-7a1d42cfb704%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
