From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com>
Cc: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>, Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [off-topic/GTD]Only Next Actions list to rule them all ?
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:48:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k4yo6vwj.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1e5bcefd0910211515t33557025yf786665834d3184a@mail.gmail.com> (Marcelo de Moraes Serpa's message of "Wed\, 21 Oct 2009 17\:15\:10 -0500")
Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com> writes:
> I have one question, though. There are actions that you know you have
> to do, but that don't justify the creation of an outcome, or, in other
> words, creating a project for this NA would be overkill, such as "Buy
> chocolate :HOME:". What would be the outcome related to that? "Satisfy
> my desire of sugar". Of course, this could be part of a "Monthly
> shopping", in this case it is obvious, but sometimes I just have the
> feeling to buy chocolate, that doesn't justify the creation of an
> outcome. What do you guys do in this case? Keep another list for
> these kind of tasks?
I'd just make a task
,----[ todo.org ]
| * Miscellaneous
| ** Go Shopping and buy stuff :INTOWN:
| - [ ] Chocolate
`----
and accumulate items in the list until there is enough to warrant a trip
to the store.
I normally have separate tasks (Buy This, and Buy That) which I convert
to a list later as above. It's faster to record the buy something task
in remember than to find the Go Shopping task when I remember something
I need to add to the list. Later when I have time I can consolidate the
separate tasks into the shopping list, print it out and check off the
boxes with a pen when I'm actually in town.
If I'm going to town for something I look at my agenda list for :INTOWN:
tags and deal with whatever I can in a single trip.
-Bernt
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-22 1:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-21 5:15 [off-topic/GTD]Only Next Actions list to rule them all ? Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2009-10-21 5:51 ` Manish
2009-10-21 12:13 ` Desmond Rivet
2009-10-21 12:22 ` Bernt Hansen
2009-10-21 18:06 ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2009-10-21 18:30 ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2009-10-21 19:05 ` Matt Lundin
2009-10-21 19:15 ` Bernt Hansen
2009-10-21 22:15 ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2009-10-22 1:48 ` Bernt Hansen [this message]
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