Good idea Lisa. Personally, I change the original task's context to @Waiting For and put the name of the delegated person at the top of the note field. As for what I'm waiting for from them, I tend to keep dated (Ctrl-D) lines in my notes field, recording any correspondence I've had, and I'll put a word in there about what I've asked the person to provide.
On Thursday, 22 August 2013 18:45:12 UTC+1, Lisa S wrote: > > I know some of you have systems for what to do with tasks on which you are > waiting for someone else or something else to happen. I don't have all that > many, and I've never come up with a structured way to handle these. Lately > I have been using a new method that's working well that I wanted to share. > > Usually what I would do is move the start date of the task into the > future. The issue with this, is that when I see the task I then have to > remember what it was I was waiting for on that task. Also, some of the > tasks have a recurrent pattern, in which case they are difficult to move > into the future, particularly on android. > > So I've been adding a sub task (which is easy on both platforms) , which I > name, "waiting for…" plus the condition I'm waiting on, making the parent > inactive. I then move this task to the date in the future that I want to > take a look at it again. When I complete the "waiting for…" task, its > parent becomes active in my list. > > This way, my mind doesn't keep reminding me of the task and the fact that > I'm waiting for something. > > Lisa Stroyan, lstr...@gmail.com <javascript:> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/b32a527c-8b2e-45f0-9838-955280f4ee66%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
