Hmm, if it works for you that's great. Just be careful you aren't just getting very good at the digital equivalent of shuffling paper. It's worth remembering that GTD was borne essentially by the analogue world and the workflow in the book was a paper flow. A guiding principle was to touch each piece of paper as few times as possible and for as briefly as possible. If you are continually moving tasks in an outline, changing attributes, changing format, (none of it moving you closer to done), then you might want to look at how you could organize differently. A neatly ordered desk isn't as welcome as a clear desk!
On Thursday, 8 October 2015 11:36:51 UTC+1, J Smith wrote: > > Yes I live in my Outline view! (Mostly in All Task, Active). > > I also use the folders to house different GTD lists (e.g. Maybe Do, > Definitely Do) plus other stuff for review later (e.g. Reflective Thoughts, > New Ideas, GTD Theory...) ... all of which I hide from Active view and so > can only see through my All Tasks view. > > Fwiw, I then use the sort order in my All Tasks Active view to establish > core (relative) priority and then use markups with *bold* and/or > hightlight to establish short time priority and finally at the start of > every day I use Stars to establish what I'm gonna work on today. > > I have also just started using Bookmarks go get to the folder I want fast. > > It's pretty basic but it works for now! > I was wasting FAR too much time messing with the system > > > > You might be better off with Ctrl+x and Ctrl+v - this adds to top of > folder list. > > Thanks! Yes not bad. The keyboard sequence is > - Control/X > - DownArrow > - Control/V > - Enter > > It does work. However it's a bit fiddly - 4 keyboard interactions just to > go down one row! > > Any other suggestions? > > > > > > On Thursday, 8 October 2015 10:27:24 UTC+1, pottster wrote: > >> You might be better off with Ctrl+x and Ctrl+v - this adds to top of >> folder list. >> >> From this, and some of your other posts, I suspect that you might be >> spending too much time "playing" with your outline. I would recommend >> keeping your outline structure as flat and as unchanging as possible and >> use views and your tags of choice (contexts, stars, flags) to achieve what >> you want. Everyone is different of course but I do feel that the Outline is >> best used for planning, setting goals and review - a bit like the contents >> section of a book. I spent a fair amount of time getting my Outline right a >> couple of years ago but haven't changed it significantly for a long while. >> Don't get too hung up on the sequence of the tasks either, very few tasks >> need to be done (or can be done) in sequence - I say that as an experienced >> Project Manager. Life doesn't happen in A-Z, if only! >> > -- 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/f6c286a1-fc1e-4662-9e4d-885639014794%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
