Re: Next Actions - how to use
Ok... First off, you need to get yourself to your local library or Borders if it still exists ;( and get a copy of David Allen's "Getting Things Done" D3 as well as Mgtd are designed to follow this methodology. You don't have do to's in the way I think your thinking. What you need to is to setup up contexts in thinks that you do in your life. For example: @errands @home_reading @home_computer @home_waiting Then what you do is setup a project. For example. Project read David allens GTD in the project you could do the following: ..put gtd on reserve at library|@home_computer ..waiting for ackknowlegement that gtd is on hold|@home_waiting ..pick up gtd from library|@errands ..read GTD|@home_reading Now in the mean time your wife asked you to pick up a dozen eggs. Since this is not really a project you just setup up and action under @errands pick up a dozen eggs. Now if you you look under actions and select actions(with next actions not selected) you will see pickup a dozen eggs pickup up gtd from library. when you select next actions only you will see pickup a dozen eggs Easy enough?? On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:18 PM, kendall vance wrote: > I'm a complete noob, so excuse my ignorance, but how does one use the > Next Action feature of d^3? I have created a tiddler named "ToDoList" > with only "<>" in the body and a tag of "context". All > associated actions are listed correctly but I can't figure our what > the "Review next actions only" is supposed to do. It my case it > doesn't do anything. This sounds like a useful feature, if only I > understood how it works. I'm brand new to GTD, TiddlyWiki, and d^3, > so please go easy. Thanks . . . . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "GTD TiddlyWiki" group. > To post to this group, send email to gtd-tiddlywiki@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. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GTD TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to gtd-tiddlywiki@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.
Question about "Completed projects older than 14 days. (Delete individually)"
Dear Friends, Please forgive me if there is something obvious I am missing. In Cleanup, under projects, it says: Completed projects older than 14 days. (Delete individually). How do you delete them individually? Am I really supposed to open each project and manually delete them as I would any tiddler? I've never cleaned up before so my list is long. I thought unchecking them was how I deleted individually, but that just un-completed them (Is that a word?). Why can't we delete projects just like actions? Thanks everyone for all the work that goes into this tool. Best wishes, BKh -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GTD TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to gtd-tiddlywiki@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: Next Actions - how to use
Thanks - that makes perfect sense. I appreciate the reply. A quick question re the "@" symbols however. Is this just a convention, or is it a syntactic requirement of the TiddlyWiki markup? I see it used anywhere, but have not found any documentation describing its usage. I gather that it is generally used to denote a context, but when you use the "Create new context" button in d^3, it does not enforce this convention. Thanks for for the explanation above - this made for a Aha! moment. Now . . .back to the learning curve. . . . On Mar 29, 12:07 pm, Jonas Thomas wrote: > Sorry about the quick post. I was in an hurry this morning and I > should have reread it before I clicked on the send button. Lets see if > this makes more sense. > > Ok... First off get a copy of David Allen's "Getting Things Done" > from you library or bookstore. > D3 as well as Mgtd are designed to follow this methodology. > > GTD todo lists are organizes actions by context, generally extracted > from a project list. You can have a action my itself that is not > part of a project. > > Below is a quick example to demostrate basic concepts. > > Organize contexts in terms of what you do in your life. > For example: > @errands > @home_reading > @home_computer > @home_waiting > > Create a project: > Project read David allens GTD > in the project you could do the following: > ..put gtd on reserve at library|@home_computer > ..waiting for ackknowlegement that gtd is on hold|@home_waiting > ..pick up gtd from library|@errands > ..read GTD|@home_reading > > Now in the mean time your wife asked you to pick up a dozen eggs. > Since this is not really a project you just create an new action > pick up a dozen eggs. > with the context @errands > > Look under actions and select @errands (with next actions only not > selected) > you will see: > pickup a dozen eggs > pickup up gtd from library. > > when you select next actions only you will see > pickup a dozen eggs > > Easy enough?? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GTD TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to gtd-tiddlywiki@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: Next Actions - how to use
It's a convention only -- not part of the mark-up. On Mar 29, 2011 1:03 PM, "kendall vance" wrote: > Thanks - that makes perfect sense. I appreciate the reply. A quick > question re the "@" symbols however. Is this just a convention, or is > it a syntactic requirement of the TiddlyWiki markup? I see it used > anywhere, but have not found any documentation describing its usage. > I gather that it is generally used to denote a context, but when you > use the "Create new context" button in d^3, it does not enforce this > convention. Thanks for for the explanation above - this made for a > Aha! moment. Now . . .back to the learning curve. . . . > > On Mar 29, 12:07 pm, Jonas Thomas wrote: >> Sorry about the quick post. I was in an hurry this morning and I >> should have reread it before I clicked on the send button. Lets see if >> this makes more sense. >> >> Ok... First off get a copy of David Allen's "Getting Things Done" >> from you library or bookstore. >> D3 as well as Mgtd are designed to follow this methodology. >> >> GTD todo lists are organizes actions by context, generally extracted >> from a project list. You can have a action my itself that is not >> part of a project. >> >> Below is a quick example to demostrate basic concepts. >> >> Organize contexts in terms of what you do in your life. >> For example: >> @errands >> @home_reading >> @home_computer >> @home_waiting >> >> Create a project: >> Project read David allens GTD >> in the project you could do the following: >> ..put gtd on reserve at library|@home_computer >> ..waiting for ackknowlegement that gtd is on hold|@home_waiting >> ..pick up gtd from library|@errands >> ..read GTD|@home_reading >> >> Now in the mean time your wife asked you to pick up a dozen eggs. >> Since this is not really a project you just create an new action >> pick up a dozen eggs. >> with the context @errands >> >> Look under actions and select @errands (with next actions only not >> selected) >> you will see: >> pickup a dozen eggs >> pickup up gtd from library. >> >> when you select next actions only you will see >> pickup a dozen eggs >> >> Easy enough?? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GTD TiddlyWiki" group. > To post to this group, send email to gtd-tiddlywiki@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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GTD TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to gtd-tiddlywiki@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: Next Actions - how to use
This example also illustrates something very useful that I had not found in any documentation or examples: the use of the ".." to create checkboxes, as in: ..put gtd on reserve at library|@home_computer Is there a comprehensive guide anywhere delineating usage such as this? Am I missing a manual that I should know about (short of scouring the source code to try and divine what does what)? On Mar 29, 12:07 pm, Jonas Thomas wrote: > Sorry about the quick post. I was in an hurry this morning and I > should have reread it before I clicked on the send button. Lets see if > this makes more sense. > > Ok... First off get a copy of David Allen's "Getting Things Done" > from you library or bookstore. > D3 as well as Mgtd are designed to follow this methodology. > > GTD todo lists are organizes actions by context, generally extracted > from a project list. You can have a action my itself that is not > part of a project. > > Below is a quick example to demostrate basic concepts. > > Organize contexts in terms of what you do in your life. > For example: > @errands > @home_reading > @home_computer > @home_waiting > > Create a project: > Project read David allens GTD > in the project you could do the following: > ..put gtd on reserve at library|@home_computer > ..waiting for ackknowlegement that gtd is on hold|@home_waiting > ..pick up gtd from library|@errands > ..read GTD|@home_reading > > Now in the mean time your wife asked you to pick up a dozen eggs. > Since this is not really a project you just create an new action > pick up a dozen eggs. > with the context @errands > > Look under actions and select @errands (with next actions only not > selected) > you will see: > pickup a dozen eggs > pickup up gtd from library. > > when you select next actions only you will see > pickup a dozen eggs > > Easy enough?? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GTD TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to gtd-tiddlywiki@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: Next Actions - how to use
The @ is a trick that I picked up from reading David Allens GTD. Basically, he was using it for naming outlook folders. When you put on a @ on the prefix it bubbles up the top. So.. at work, when I get an email, I try to either respond immediately or put it into a folder call @action req'd for @waiting for response. The are at the top of my email personal folder. Anyway... I use the @ convention in my d3 as an easy way to discriminate between contexts and tags. For example here are some of the tags I use hm_repair hm_family hm_ebay etc... hm_c++ If you tag our projects it another way of finding it quickly. On the right hand side of d3 you see some tabs... Click on the tab called tags. Contexts called @... will be at the top, then you'll other tags. Lets..see, what else... Something I still need to work on... When you create a project you need to define what is done. Projects can be multiple steps, but they need to have an end came in site. That's more of a gtd thing.. (highly recommend the book ;) Anyway... the ..blah blah |@errands thing is buried within the d3 documentation somewhere I think... It's been a while... Tom0? On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Stephanie Butler wrote: > It's a convention only -- not part of the mark-up. > On Mar 29, 2011 1:03 PM, "kendall vance" wrote: > > Thanks - that makes perfect sense. I appreciate the reply. A quick > > question re the "@" symbols however. Is this just a convention, or is > > it a syntactic requirement of the TiddlyWiki markup? I see it used > > anywhere, but have not found any documentation describing its usage. > > I gather that it is generally used to denote a context, but when you > > use the "Create new context" button in d^3, it does not enforce this > > convention. Thanks for for the explanation above - this made for a > > Aha! moment. Now . . .back to the learning curve. . . . > > > > On Mar 29, 12:07 pm, Jonas Thomas wrote: > >> Sorry about the quick post. I was in an hurry this morning and I > >> should have reread it before I clicked on the send button. Lets see if > >> this makes more sense. > >> > >> Ok... First off get a copy of David Allen's "Getting Things Done" > >> from you library or bookstore. > >> D3 as well as Mgtd are designed to follow this methodology. > >> > >> GTD todo lists are organizes actions by context, generally extracted > >> from a project list. You can have a action my itself that is not > >> part of a project. > >> > >> Below is a quick example to demostrate basic concepts. > >> > >> Organize contexts in terms of what you do in your life. > >> For example: > >> @errands > >> @home_reading > >> @home_computer > >> @home_waiting > >> > >> Create a project: > >> Project read David allens GTD > >> in the project you could do the following: > >> ..put gtd on reserve at library|@home_computer > >> ..waiting for ackknowlegement that gtd is on hold|@home_waiting > >> ..pick up gtd from library|@errands > >> ..read GTD|@home_reading > >> > >> Now in the mean time your wife asked you to pick up a dozen eggs. > >> Since this is not really a project you just create an new action > >> pick up a dozen eggs. > >> with the context @errands > >> > >> Look under actions and select @errands (with next actions only not > >> selected) > >> you will see: > >> pickup a dozen eggs > >> pickup up gtd from library. > >> > >> when you select next actions only you will see > >> pickup a dozen eggs > >> > >> Easy enough?? > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "GTD TiddlyWiki" group. > > To post to this group, send email to gtd-tiddlywiki@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. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "GTD TiddlyWiki" group. > To post to this group, send email to gtd-tiddlywiki@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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GTD TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to gtd-tiddlywiki@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: Question about "Completed projects older than 14 days. (Delete individually)"
I think this is like this because a project is often a tag in many other tiddlers. When you delete a project and those tags exist, there is a pop-up message asking if it's OK to delete a project tagged in X other tiddlers. So if you were to delete lots of projects at once, you'd get a lot of dialog boxes and it would be confusing and irritating. So to avoid that, you have to delete the projects individually. [This is just an educated guess, so feel free to correct me if you have better info]. Jason On Mar 29, 11:47 am, bkh wrote: > Dear Friends, > > Please forgive me if there is something obvious I am missing. > > In Cleanup, under projects, it says: > > Completed projects older than 14 days. (Delete individually). > > How do you delete them individually? Am I really supposed to open each > project and manually delete them as I would any tiddler? I've never > cleaned up before so my list is long. I thought unchecking them was > how I deleted individually, but that just un-completed them (Is that a > word?). > > Why can't we delete projects just like actions? > > Thanks everyone for all the work that goes into this tool. > > Best wishes, > BKh -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GTD TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to gtd-tiddlywiki@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.
