On Tuesday, April 7, 2015 at 5:53:48 AM UTC-4, J Smith wrote:
>
> <...>Personally I use this for:
> A) Tasks that are *best* done consecutively immediately after each other
> e.g."Pick up tap from hardware store ==> go to stationers for pen & paper
> ==> supermarket ==> post letter on way home"
> B) I also use this to write up things that MUST be done in that particular
> sequence but not necessarily immediately after each other:
> e.g. "Install new locks ==> Get new keys cut ==> give new keys to Fred ==>
> Tell George Fred has new key"<...>
>
Hi, John. I use this syntax where I have multiple steps that must be done
as one. For example
Get Clippers>Get rope>prune and tie trees
If I get interrupted after getting the clippers and don't get back to this
tilltomorrow, I will need to restart at the top. There is no possibility of
partial completion. So I'm comfortable with making it a single task.In both
of the examples you gave here is a possibility of getting interrupted in
the middle and later (maybe much later) needing to pick up and finish. I
would want separate tasks. I would still enter it quickly. For example
measure for blinds>order blinds>buy wall anchors>did blinds arrive
yet?>install blinds
would get entered into the Rapid Task Entry window (with parse and multiple
entry enabled) as
Install Blinds -p -o
measure for blinds
order blinds
buy wall anchors
did blinds arrive yet? @waiting
for readers less familiar with RTE I will mention that this creates a
project with five subtasks and "complete tasks in order" turned on. If I
mark tasks complete when I finish them, the next action will always be
clear,After the last (waiting) task is completed, the project name (install
blinds) becomes the next action. I believe that all of the advantages you
mentioned apply, with the additional advantages that it's easy to track
partial completion and resume after an interruption, it's easy to add a
task to the middle when you need to, and you don't have to worry about
splitting lines.
-Dwight
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