I have come up with a system that I find satisfying. I want my system to:
1. Highlight critical/time sensitive issues above all else. 2. If there are no critical tasks, allow me to work on whatever I am most inspired to work at that moment. If it is something I had not worked on for a while, I want to be able to pick up as quickly and efficiently as possible. Miller's law is the underlying theory for how I organize my realms, areas and projects: " the number of objects an average human can hold in working memory is 7 ± 2." I shoot for groups of 5-7, which gives me room to grow to the max of 9. Currently I have 3 realms. Each realm has from 5 to 8 areas. Each area has 2 to 5 Active projects. I have a total of 36 active projects currently. I also have about that many future and queued (see below) projects. To help keep the active projects manageable I added another state to Project status called "Queued" using the tweak found on Tiddlywiki.com FAQ under customization. When I do monthly reviews or whenever I have too many projects in each area, the top 7-9 projects in each area remain active while the rest go into "Queued" or "Someday/Future" if I really have no intention of working on in the next 3-6 months. I use mGSD for all my tasks except my day job tasks. I have 3 realms. Each is a different level of importance: Household is the most critical, followed "Music" (I am self-employed part time as a musician) and lastly, "Fun." To keep next actions manageable I altered my "Do Work" lists to group and move starred tasks to the top. I try to have only 5 starred actions per Realm at any time. I also added a "pending" status to "Next" "Waiting" etc, again to help my prioritize my actions so I am only dealing with groups of 5-9. at a time. So when I start up mGSD, I click only the Household realm and scan for starred items, which could financial, having a good marriage, being a great dad, etc. When those are scanned I then click on the Music tab. In this way I can easily judge which starred items need my attention the most. Hope this is remotely helpful. Makes more sense in my head I think. Works fabulously though. On Jun 16, 2:18 am, Damian <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > Are any of you using 'Realms' in interesting ways? I have a lot of > projects because I put everything for half baked never going to happen > ideas through to projects that need urgent attention into GTD (mGSD). > I find the line between 'area' and 'realm' blury, and almost prefer > the idea of using realms instead or areas. I also like the idea of > using realms to prioritise project. Something like 'Now - Currently > active - Long term active - Someday - Vague ideas'. But I struggle to > plan this all out in a structured way. > > Anyone else had similar problems and come up with workable solutions? > > D -- 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.
