Lisa, My approach to task management: I tend to use a combination of GTD and Autofocus, by also assigning tasks to a "Page x" context over and above any "Routine" or "Project x" context. Nice to delete a page context when all the tasks on it is completed, and allows you a different view on things you have been putting off :)
Checklists: In order not to have a whole list of checklist items in my task list I create a headline task with one initiating subtask and a folder that contains the checklist items and is dependent on the subtask. For example my actual headline task is a weekly recurring task called "GTD Weekly review done!" - because it feels nice to click it ;) - and the first subtask is "Start GTD weekly review". Underneath this I have a folder called "Checklist" with the 8-10 items that constitute the weekly review, set as dependent on "Start GTD weekly review". When the review is due, the "Start GTD weekly review" shows up in my task list under the context that keeps track of routine tasks. When I mark this as complete all the tasks in the checklist then show up (I usually switch to the GTD context for this but you can also choose to switch to outline view from the initiation task and zoom in or just work in outline view), and I can work my way through it. Once I am done, the lovely little checkbox for "work complete" shows up. This works well on a number of my checklists (e.g. getting data in to prepare KPI dashboards, tracking project status reviews, processing travel bookings and associated expense claims etc.) in MLO without having all the items in the task list. The key benefit for me of having the checklist as a subfolder is that all the items on the checklist is visible once I have clicked the initiation task, so I can work through the checklist in random order. And the main reward is to mark items complete on the checklist - similar to scratching them out on a page - as checklists are often not very exciting things to work through. ;) regards, Christo
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