Hi, John. The plan you describe sounds like a very efficient way of moving (many, many) tasks one at a time to someday/never.
On the other hand, I have to ask you whether your task management is overly binary, where the yes/no decision of whether I should do this task has become immediate versus never. I think most people have a lot of tasks that are not getting done today or tomorrow and are not really a part of a project that is being actively pursued today or tomorrow, but that are going to be active this week or this month or this quarter. The challenge is to come up with a way of categorizing and organizing these tasks that makes sense, and that helps you deal with today’s urgent tasks and still get some of your less urgent but worthy tasks done, without totally forgetting about the tasks that are a step below. This often involves things like using the outliner to create a meaningful structure, or using folders to collect tasks with a similar set of requirements and constraints. You have said elsewhere that you have no use for outlining and that you want to avoid folders, but it sounds like these are the very tools that you need. -Dwight From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Smith Sent: Friday, January 09, 2015 9:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MLO] Is this the best way to move stuff into a GTD Sometime-Maybe list? (i.e. Control/M, Enter, Enter !) Hi What is the best way that you have found to create a GTD Sometime/Maybe list? The best I have come up with so far is to create a Folder that I keep at the very top row of my Outline view which I have called "Sometime/Maybe folder" and for which I have also ticked "Hide the branch in To-do". Then, if I highlight the thing I want to move to Someday-Maybe, and hit Control/M, followed by Enter twice, you have then moved the item into this folder AND out of immediate sight. Has anyone found anything slick that involves fewer keystrokes? J PS. GTD Tickler list I'm slightly unclear when to use GTD Sometime-Maybe and when to use a GTD Tickler list. I have tried using the Start Date to create a GTD Tickler list (which I guess is what it's there for!), but I find adding Start Dates rather clunky. What I really want is to just say remind me in (say) "+1, +5, +10, +20, +50 days (rather than having to is "Next day" or "Next week") or having to find the actual date in a calendar as this slows me down. -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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/a4856a58-69b5-4be8-8f59-1e166fa5669b%40googlegroups.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/a4856a58-69b5-4be8-8f59-1e166fa5669b%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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/001b01d02c8f%2456e02520%2404a06f60%24%40dwightarthur.us. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
