Hi GTDers,
First, I do appreciate and having been processing the answers you
gave to my last set of questions....I still have a lot of work to do
and I keep going back to those emails. But all of this fun technical
discussion is getting me motivated to update my GTD system, so now I
have some "implementation" questions:
I'm in the process of simplifying my contexts and slicing my tasklist
in other ways (using Goals, and moving things to hidden views that
aren't goals for this year), because my complicated Contexts were
getting in the way. I have some questions for those of you following GTD:
- What MLO context, if any, do you assign to Projects? Since they
aren't actionable, they don't really have a true "Context". However,
the actionable tasks (when I get around to breaking down the project)
will inherit the context; is that reason enough to put one on? Do
you use Contexts in any other interesting ways? (I don't need it for
Area of focus - I use TopLevelParent for that).
Second, I can't figure out a good way to split up the pie of tasks
that is left. Most of them are at home (with a phone and a
computer). My phone and computer go with me most places I go. As a
working from home, loosely homeschooling mom with my fingers in way
too many pies, my life seems to be divided into these categories:
- The many, many routine things needed to keep everything going (I
have a context I add called Routine so I can filter these in or out)
- Reactive communication and tasks to keep various things moving -
mostly through email (I do these each morning and throughout the day
- most are not worth adding into MLO)
- Tasks that I can pick off or make slow progress on in between
helping my son, answering requests, etc
- Larger tasks (including planning, reviewing, etc) that fall through
the cracks because there are a lot more of them than my "free" blocks
of time available, and I often don't have the energy to do them
during the times I have "down time".
I'm thinking somehow I need to be able to encode whether something is
going to take a lot of energy or not, and whether it needs to be done
without interruptions, or not, into my system, and then force myself
to work on those tasks when I have the right energy and time to focus
(instead of doing the other 3 categories during those times, and
"wasting" them.
I don't really like using the sliders in MLO for this kind of thing,
for some reason. That's why I'm considering Contexts. And in a
sense, it *is* a Context - it's a special "place" in my head that I'm
able to do those tasks.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Lisa
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Lisa Stroyan, mailto:[email protected]
www.empathic-parenting.com
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