On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Jonathan Soroko <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd like to echo Jonathan (#1)'s thoughts. I think of "contexts" as > location/type of location at which one is working - "realm" as 'type of > project' or - "hat I wear for this type of project" > > In my case - > > - parent/husband/household tech support department > - attorney for pro bono clients > - consultant to different types of nonprofits > - blogger/journalist > - disaster/public health risk assessment researcher > - local civic project work(er)
Obviously it's not wrong to do whatever helps your productivity. I think Realms work best when you use them to differentiate between things you might do in a given Context. That's roughly what they were intended for.. eg: in my @Phone context list I might have: - call my buddy Frank to arrange a pub crawl - call Head Office to ask about new security policy - call Mum to make sure she got the photos I sent ..if I get some phone time at work I'm not going to call Frank, or my mum. Those are personal things that my boss ain't paying me for. But if i get some phone time midday on Sunday, I'm not gonna go calling Head Office (even if someone is answering the phone then..). Differentiating between "call frank" + "call mum", which are personal calls, and "call head office", which is a work thing, is what Realms are good at. Jon El-B, it sounds like your "meta-realms" are about right :) I don't think it helps much to put frank into a "par-tayy" realm, and mom into a "family" realm, coz I will still want to see them both on my @Phone context list whenever I get phone time outside of work. If you're dividing up stuff by your roles as a kind of planning strategy, that's what Areas are supposed to be for -- so you can check you aren't letting the duties of a particular role slip. Cheers ;Daniel -- Daniel Baird I've tried going to the XHTML <bar /> a few times, but it's always closed. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GTD TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/GTD-TiddlyWiki?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
