Happy to help rkb37, Keep in mind that I am a little heretical on the GTD front when it comes to projects. There are many who will say that no project is open- ended and that these are actually "areas of focus/responsibility" and projects are borne out of these.
I certainly try to adhere to this as much as possible. If something has more than one step, I will make a List (read:project) out of it, but one step things need a place to live. For example, the doorknob on our upstairs bathroom seemed loose. I do not have a screwdriver on the 2nd floor of the house so it was always difficult for me to just tighten it because it required going back downstairs (usually late at night when I just wanted to go to bed). So, I needed a task "Tighten bathroom doorknob". Is this a project? Do I need to put in tasks for "go get screwdriver", "tighten knob", "put away screwdriver"? Not for me. It's a single task that just needs to be done while I'm at home with time. So, it needs a "General Home Maintenance" project. On the other hand, I have to take care of something at work which requires getting signatures from 6 different people, having a conversation with one other, and then documenting and filing the results. I decided to make this a project instead of generic "work- related" tasks. I plan on re-reading GTD this year (3rd time) now that I have a good tool in place. I'm hoping that having a fluid tool like Todo will help me see more of the benefits the next time around (just like it did for contexts). Best, Michael On Jan 21, 10:53 am, rkb37 <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Michael, > > I am new to GTD and task managers. I just purchased ToDo last night > after researching the other apps. It was the best app, not perfect, > for the way I was thinking of organizing my tasks. Your post helped me > better understand GTD and how to use it with ToDo, as I am now just > trying to lay the foundation for my task organization (ToDo Lite > didn't allow enough tasks for me to really figure out the best way for > me). Thanks for taking the time to share your experience.
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