From: Manish <mailtomanish.sharma@gmail.com>
To: Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [off-topic/GTD]Only Next Actions list to rule them all ?
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:21:38 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e7cdbe30910202251m2451e3fdp8b660181f2110220@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1e5bcefd0910202215n660589c9h65ffe5603b1bf8db@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> This is for the GTD orgers out there. I've taken the article written by
> Charles as a basis for my GTD implementation. In the end, it's all about
> what works for you, but I'd like to get some insights/opinions from you: For
> Next Actions, are you using a single list OR you organize them
> hierarchically under each project (in the projects list)?
>
> I started with the second one, putting each next action (TODO) item under
> its correspondent project, however, it quickly became too bloated, and a mix
> of projects, sub-projects and next-actions. Of course, org helps there with
> sparse trees and other functions to filter trees, but still, I found it was
> too complex, albeit more specific and I did felt I was more "organized",
> even though I was getting lost.
>
> So, I just let go of my obsession about the perfect thing and decided to try
> a single Next Actions list, together with a Projects list. The next actions
> is a single list with all the actionable items from all the projects. I've
> lost the relationship between a next action item and a project, but I can do
> this easily by just looking at the action, having the system tell me is not
> that important.
Usually, you define all actions for a project under the same hierarchy. You
can decide how you want actions to be designated "next" (and projects to be
designated "project") -- using keywords or tags and have a custom agenda
command collect the next actions for you from all agenda files in a single
list.
--
Manish
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-21 5:52 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 [this message]
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
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