Well one way you could do it fairly quickly would be using the stars,
but not merely to distinguish the actions all in one list, but to make
a new list of starred & next actions. So in the Action Dashboard by
Context, for example, you could add in a new view above the default
Next Actions list called 'Next Actions' and then change the default
next actions to be 'Pending Actions', like this:
<<mgtdList title:'Next Actions' startTag:Action tags:'Next && !Done &&
Starred' view:ActionProj mode:global
group:Context
gView:Context
where:tiddler.hasActiveProject()
newButtonTags:'Action Next'
>>
<<mgtdList title:'Pending Actions' startTag:Action tags:'Next && !Done
&& !Starred' view:ActionProj mode:global
group:Context
gView:Context
where:tiddler.hasActiveProject()
newButtonTags:'Action Next'
>>
So then starred becomes more separated out... seems like the easiest
way to get a third status.
On Feb 27, 5:07 am, jdunham <[email protected]> wrote:
> I wanted to brainstorm about making the mGTD system even more useful.
> So here's my problem:
>
> I have three kinds of projects or tasks:
> Things that I'm actively working on
> Things that are urgent, but have to wait until my active ones are done
> ("pending?")
> Things that I should do someday or maybe not at all.
>
> You can probably see where I'm going with this. mGTD only has two of
> these categories. If the pending stuff is made active, then it's hard
> to focus on next actions when there are 50 of them instead of 3 to 5.
> If the pending stuff is in the S/M (someday/maybe) list, then it gets
> lost, and when I do have space in the active list, I have to browse
> through many more items to find the best candidates to make active.
>
> I find I have this problem on both the action level and the project
> level.
>
> For now I am using the stars to flag the more important items, but I
> have to say I don't like it. What I really want is "next and waiting
> actions", which I keep onscreen at all times to show all next and
> pending stuff, and I only want to see the S/M stuff during my weekly
> review.
>
> For stuff that I have absolutely no chance of working on today (today
> for actions, this week for projects), I don't want to see it in my
> active list, but I hate banishing it to S/M where its really going to
> get lost in the crowd.
>
> While I don't want to break the purity of the David Allen concept, I
> honestly feel that this is missing from his idea too.
>
> How hard would it be to add a third attribute? Obviously the hardest
> part would be changing the view tiddlers, but I hereby volunteer to
> help. Does anyone know how/whether other GTD tools handle this?
>
> Any other ideas?
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