Re: GTD process question: Daily todo lists
Hello, At some point in the past, I realized that 95% of my next actions were attached to the context '@work'. I did try to split that in several contexts like '@computer:online', '@computer:offline' and '@office' to account for the fact that I sometimes work from office, from home (both with internet access) and sometimes while commuting without internet access. However this was not enough to reduce the amount of next actions in '@computer:online' (still in the 85% range). Therefore I decided to experiment the multiple-context capabilities of mGTD, and to throw in a few more contexts which are not location based, in parallel of the ones listed above. I tried using for example a '@criticalPath' for actions which will delay other people's work if I do not respect my deadlines, a '@today' (that I daily updated) to mark items I wanted to do during the day (thus making a daily to-do list...), etc... In the end, what I did was having two sets of contexts, one for 'priorities' and the other one for 'physical location', and I used the intersection of the two to reduce the number of actions I have to choose from each day. I also tried when applicable to reduce the number of next actions per project to 1, only keeping as active the one with the highest 'priority', and moving the others to 'future', even if it was possible to do them immediately. I do not know if such ideas will be compatible with your environment, but what is great is that both GTD and MonkeyGTD give you a very broad capacity to experiment :) Best regards, Frederic On 28 nov, 03:21, John Holden j...@holdencrew.com wrote: You can think about using/referring to the 'Completed Projects' and 'Done Actions' lists/ticklers to track what you have done for your boss. This will list things by date and you can review it as part of your Weekly Review. It is 'very GTD' to do a thorough weekly review and I think it makes a big difference. With regard to daily ToDo lists, part of the GTD dogma is do what works for you! If you want to discipline yourself and commit to getting a discrete number of things done - come hell or high water - you can write them in your calendar/diary, allocating them a time as appointments. These tasks are going to take time, so there's nothing wrong in committing to 'an appointment with yourself' to complete next actions. If you're getting lost with context-based next action lists, perhaps you should review your contexts and challenge whether they actually work for you? Are they relevant to how your work/life is structured? My At Office list gets very long and out-of-control, as does my At Computer. This is because my computer is at the office (!) and the risk is that everything gets added to one of these lists. At the moment I am focusing on getting the lists done, rather than worrying about how they should be organised! Maybe you need fewer contexts? Maybe more? Probably different. Worth a think about why you get lost quickly. Good luck John On 28 Nov 2009, at 00:11, Jeff wrote: I'm back at mgtd after trying text files for a while. They're just not as pretty or cool as a TW-based app. Now I'm trying to use mgtd to also track what I have done so that I can easily produce status reports/tasklogs for my boss. Is it contrary to GTD dogma to use daily todo lists? When I use context-based next action lists, I get lost very quickly. -- Jeff -- 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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/gtd-tiddlywiki?hl=en . -- 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.
Re: tbGTD
Tobias, Is there no one-click method for marking an action as done? I'm looking for that in vain. Thanks, Jim On Oct 26, 10:14 am, Tobias beertob...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi everyone, As Mat pointed out here...http://groups.google.com/group/gtd-tiddlywiki/msg/f8f5872345b24e6a ...there now is another GTD wiki called tbGTD, which you find here:http://tbgtd.tiddlyspot.com/ Until yesterday, I didn't even know this group existed ...so you can imagine that so far this is more of a homebrew than driven by expert/ community fedback. But, possibly that wasn't such a bad thing after all, to not be overly influenced when things gets started and to stick to some basic ideas. Anyways... be invited to poke around it and give it a shot and throw back some feedback (pro's/con's). I don't want to go down the 10001 feature road, especially not in a strict GTD sense, tightening up the workflows to prevent people from engaging in bad habits or poking them in the right direction. I want people to be aware of what they do, much more in a tiddlywiki-sense, than a GTD one. But I am well inclined to add certain features, like Simon's quick-add for example might be one of, or my cycleTags from here:http://lastfm.tiddlyspot.com/#cycleTagsInfo enjoy, Tobias. -- 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.
Re: tbGTD
Hi Jim, That's good feedback... I think that's what others definetely agree to being a much helpful addition. As you probalby know, right now, there's only a two-click (if not even a four-click) way, using x-tag while opening and closing the respective tiddler. I can see how that is not the most efficient way when GTD'ing is what you do all the time. In gerneral, such features shouldn't be too difficult to implement. I haven't yet taken the time to answer the questions of how to implement them. So, I agree, it's probably about time to have another look at ways of assigning GTD tags (once an item is a GTD item). I like the way it is done in GTDinbox for gmail. Meaning, the main GTD action tags are one click buttons in a row right below the header informations of your email (here 'tiddler'). I'll look into ways of implementing the required features into the viewtemplate of the tbGtdTheme and about how to best provide for GTD related actions. I might possibly go for some sort of expandable/collapsible GTD ribbon, providing such GTD tag buttons, auto-expanding if a tiddler is a GTD item. As for GTDinbox, I think reengineering that popup overview allowing you to inspect your GTDaction items via tabbed lists would also be quite helpful. On the other hand, I think it might be especially helpful to be ale to switch GTD status tags right on your desk (or other such lists)... via some dropdown (which would be two-click) or buttons (which would be one-click) or maybe both combined ...in order to avoid having to open a GTD item, then assigning the new status and closing it, which would even be a 3-click-action, involving the whole view to change. Sounds like some sort of MonkeyGTD desk... so, let the flame-wars begin ;o) Lastly, I can very well imagine that some of you guys are adding your own little or big feature-bits to tbGTD... if that is the case and you find your additions to be quite valuable, I am very much inclined to upload or reference test-cases for such features... so that others might benefit from your polishing. Please note that, right now, I really need to start taking a whole lot more time on getting a new job. So, I can't tell you when it will be done, but it definetely will be... and once it is, I'll sure let you know and help you realeave your click-pains. :o) Tobias. -- 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.
Re: GTD process question: Daily todo lists
I haven't found contexts to be that useful. I'm sure they are for others, but that's not just the way my next actions need to be sorted. However I did have the problem of too many next actions. What helped me is making another state for actions and projects which need doing, but are not on my next actions list. I put items on this list until my next actions are down to a manageable number (like five or so) and then daily or weekly or when Next actions are empty, I can get that other list and review it. See http://tiddlywiki.org/wiki/MonkeyGTD/Customization_Guide/Custom_Project_Classifications for details, if you are interested. On Dec 2, 1:03 am, Frederic Aguiard frederic.agui...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, At some point in the past, I realized that 95% of my next actions were attached to the context '@work'. I did try to split that in several contexts like '@computer:online', '@computer:offline' and '@office' to account for the fact that I sometimes work from office, from home (both with internet access) and sometimes while commuting without internet access. However this was not enough to reduce the amount of next actions in '@computer:online' (still in the 85% range). Therefore I decided to experiment the multiple-context capabilities of mGTD, and to throw in a few more contexts which are not location based, in parallel of the ones listed above. I tried using for example a '@criticalPath' for actions which will delay other people's work if I do not respect my deadlines, a '@today' (that I daily updated) to mark items I wanted to do during the day (thus making a daily to-do list...), etc... In the end, what I did was having two sets of contexts, one for 'priorities' and the other one for 'physical location', and I used the intersection of the two to reduce the number of actions I have to choose from each day. I also tried when applicable to reduce the number of next actions per project to 1, only keeping as active the one with the highest 'priority', and moving the others to 'future', even if it was possible to do them immediately. I do not know if such ideas will be compatible with your environment, but what is great is that both GTD and MonkeyGTD give you a very broad capacity to experiment :) Best regards, Frederic On 28 nov, 03:21, John Holden j...@holdencrew.com wrote: You can think about using/referring to the 'Completed Projects' and 'Done Actions' lists/ticklers to track what you have done for your boss. This will list things by date and you can review it as part of your Weekly Review. It is 'very GTD' to do a thorough weekly review and I think it makes a big difference. With regard to daily ToDo lists, part of the GTD dogma is do what works for you! If you want to discipline yourself and commit to getting a discrete number of things done - come hell or high water - you can write them in your calendar/diary, allocating them a time as appointments. These tasks are going to take time, so there's nothing wrong in committing to 'an appointment with yourself' to complete next actions. If you're getting lost with context-based next action lists, perhaps you should review your contexts and challenge whether they actually work for you? Are they relevant to how your work/life is structured? My At Office list gets very long and out-of-control, as does my At Computer. This is because my computer is at the office (!) and the risk is that everything gets added to one of these lists. At the moment I am focusing on getting the lists done, rather than worrying about how they should be organised! Maybe you need fewer contexts? Maybe more? Probably different. Worth a think about why you get lost quickly. Good luck John On 28 Nov 2009, at 00:11, Jeff wrote: I'm back at mgtd after trying text files for a while. They're just not as pretty or cool as a TW-based app. Now I'm trying to use mgtd to also track what I have done so that I can easily produce status reports/tasklogs for my boss. Is it contrary to GTD dogma to use daily todo lists? When I use context-based next action lists, I get lost very quickly. -- Jeff -- 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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/gtd-tiddlywiki?hl=en . -- 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.
