I have two daily tasks at work that I track with ticklers. I check them off when I get them done today and they automatically get rescheduled for tomorrow. On Friday it get's rescheduled to Saturday. Since I work a M-F work week, I just bump the item over to Monday. I also have a monthly checklist that I have to complete and I use another tickler for that. These ticklers help me make sure to complete these regularly occurring items that must be accomplished in order to stay compliant with administrative policies.
I have a project defined called SysAdmin Checklists. I have a reference item defined under that project where I manually keep a history of certain parts of the monthly checklist. When these daily and monthly checklists are completed, an e-mail goes to an archived mailing list so we have a history of our compliance with the policies that require the regular reviews. Nothing fancy, but it does what I need it to do. Ken S. On May 17, 4:10 am, Acidfire <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for your input. I've thought a bit more about this and tracking > what I did in the past isn't really what i want anyway. I just want to > get reminded of what I should be doing at the moment. But like you > said, you don't track brushing your teeth. It's just routine. > > I think I'll just make a more thorough daily schedule and try to stick > with that. > > That being said though, recurring stuff can probably be handled with > the tickler system. However this is probably only handy for things > that have to be done every week+. > > On May 17, 10:57 am, jdunham <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Maybe this is not what you wanted to hear, but the GTD system isn't > > really designed for tracking the past. The whole point of GTD is to > > minimize the need to remember what you are supposed to do in the > > future, so you can concentrate on getting things done in the present > > (disclaimer: I don't really know anything; so go read the book!). > > > If something isn't likely to be forgotten, then I don't use the mGSD > > system to track it. For example, I don't have a tickler for brushing > > my teeth; I just do it. > > > There are lots of good reasons for tracking things you have already > > done, but mGSD is not really set up for that. I would use a Google > > spreadsheet instead. > > > However one idea is that you could use the notes field of the tickler > > to list the history of how you handled the tickler. But you'll have > > to remember to edit it properly each time. You could also just store > > the URL to your Google spreadsheet in the tickler's notes. > > > Hope that helps, > > Jason > > > On May 16, 6:13 am, Acidfire <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, I'm wondering how you all handle daily recurring tasks. Personally > > > I do mnemosyne exercises and some fitness exercises every day and I > > > want to track how often I do them. > > > > My idea is to have them pop up on my action list. Whenever I tick them > > > off they'll be back the next day. When I open the action tiddler I can > > > see what days I've ticked the action off. > > > > Anyway this doesn't seem possible at the moment (I'm using mGSD), so > > > I'm hoping you have some easier way of handling tasks like that or > > > maybe give some GTD related insight. Thanks! :) > > > > -- > > > 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 > > > athttp://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 > > athttp://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 > athttp://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.
