You can think about using/referring to the 'Completed Projects' and 'Done Actions' lists/ticklers to track what you have done for your boss. This will list things by date and you can review it as part of your Weekly Review. It is 'very GTD' to do a thorough weekly review and I think it makes a big difference.
With regard to daily ToDo lists, part of the GTD dogma is "do what works for you"! If you want to discipline yourself and commit to getting a discrete number of things done - come hell or high water - you can write them in your calendar/diary, allocating them a time as appointments. These tasks are going to take time, so there's nothing wrong in committing to 'an appointment with yourself' to complete next actions. If you're getting lost with context-based next action lists, perhaps you should review your contexts and challenge whether they actually work for you? Are they relevant to how your work/life is structured? My "At Office" list gets very long and out-of-control, as does my "At Computer". This is because my computer is at the office (!) and the risk is that everything gets added to one of these lists. At the moment I am focusing on getting the lists done, rather than worrying about how they should be organised! Maybe you need fewer contexts? Maybe more? Probably different. Worth a think about why you get lost quickly. Good luck John On 28 Nov 2009, at 00:11, Jeff wrote: > I'm back at mgtd after trying text files for a while. They're just not > as pretty or cool as a TW-based app. > > Now I'm trying to use mgtd to also track what I have done so that I > can easily produce status reports/tasklogs for my boss. > > Is it contrary to GTD dogma to use daily todo lists? When I use > context-based next action lists, I get lost very quickly. > > -- > Jeff > > -- > > 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 > . > > -- 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.
