Hi Kasi: I'm not one of the developers, but I have been using it for a few years and have made some small customizations. Sorry in advance if I come across as judgmental about any of your questions.
> * Actions have a start date and I don't want to seem the before that > start date has passed. The idea of GTD is to keep things out of sight, > if I can't work on them. I know I can set a tickler with a date and > then convert it to an action, but that's extra work. I don't have too much help on that one. There is a "make action" button so the extra work is exactly one click. > * Actions have due dates/deadlines. I saw a couple of posts, however, > I don't want to use ticklers for that. I pulled out my copy of GTD (the book) and I couldn't find anything about actions having due dates. I think this is supposed to be dealt with in your periodic review. What would you expect the system to do when you've reached a due date? Change the action's color? I think the whole system is that actions don't have priority and you should work on any next action that is in your current list. > > * I want to directly go from the action to the project. I can set the > project, but I cannot jump to that specific project from the action. It's there. There is a double arrow ">>" next to the project to let you jump directly there from the action. > * I want to easily define sequences of actions. Other GTD programs > solve this by letting you define whether the project actions are to be > executed in sequence or in parallel. If in sequence, then they only > show the first one in the 'next action' list. Defining sequences > through the 'depends on' is tedious. Basically I want to see just the > first action of every project. For me, I solved this with the Pending Action customization. See more at < ARRGH, the documentation I wrote for this has been lost in the docs migration! I'll have to try to track that down with the site owners > . > * Task&project templates. I often have checklists and action lists > that recur each time a specific event happens (e.g., do computer > maintenance has 15 predefined actions). It would be nice to > instantiate new projects from these checklists. Other software also > offers placeholders in the templates that then can be filled at the > time of instantiating the template (e.g., on computer maintenance, it > has <name> that can be filled, or on 'do trip' it has <location>, > <start>, <end>); my workaround is to have this setup with quick add > and fill the variables in some other program that then spits out what > needs to be copied into quick add. I have made a tag called "Recurring". I added the following lin to the TitleButtons tiddler to make a cool checkbox for it: <span macro="toggleTag Recurring . ."></span> I added it right after this line: <span macro="multiToggleTag ProjectStatus longVersion:on"></span> When the project is complete, I set the project to someday/maybe, reset the ActionStatus for each action to the appropriate starting status, and set a tickler to reactivate the project. It would be great if this were automated, but I'll probably never get around to coding it. This doesn't allow for multiple instances of the same project, but I think that's a feature. If you are not finishing one instance before starting the next one, you may have bigger problems than mGSD can solve. > * Review should actually permit me to review actions to update them. > So each action should have a 'last reviewed' time stamp and the review > view should show projects with actions and make it easy for me to > review them. Does that really matter? Did you read the book? GTD is all about the here and now. You should review all of your projects at your weekly review and pick the ones that should be active, and make sure they all have enough Next Actions to get you to the next review. How does a measurement of the time since your last review help you get things done? Let us know how it goes, Jason -- 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.
