Yes, I use folders in three ways: Within my projects, I often have one or two folders of reference information - specifically, to keep a list of project contact names, phone numbers, email addresses and their roles. This is useful for people I don't get round to adding to my phone address book.
I also set up all my Roles as folders. This is a trick to help with filtering - I can filter by Area of Life (Personal, Home, Work or Community) by using the Advanced Criterium "TopLevelParentName", but I can filter by Role buy using "TopLevelFolderName". Finally, I tend to group projects by client name (sorry, didn't show that in my hierarchy, in my previous post to this thread) - When I create a group of projects in this way, I set it up as a folder. As an example, if one of my Clients was Apple and I had a Project to design the next iPhone for them, the structure would be: Work (which is a task) _&&High Flying Designer (which is a folder - so I can find this by filtering by TopLevelFolderName __Apple Computers (which is a folder, to keep all my projects for Apple together) ___New iPhone Design (which is a task, set up as a project in progress) That's four levels of hierarchy. Under that would be all my tasks and subtasks for that project. Does that make sense? Would that structure be easy for you to navigate, too, or am I over-complicating my outline? Stéphane On Wednesday, 5 July 2017 18:42:28 UTC+1, DCC wrote: > Thank you for the reply. In your set up, do you use folders at all? > > Regards, > Dwight... > > On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 11:54 AM, Stéph <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hello Dwight. I do it just the way you do, with an outline hierarchy of >> Area of Life >> _Role >> __Goal or Project >> ___Sub-project or task >> ____Task steps >> >> That then leaves contexts for my GTD @contexts and Flags for flagging my >> roles and goals (which helps woth sone filters). >> >> I do it this way for a few reasons: >> 1) because my tasks are much more likely to need a quick change of >> context than to be moved to another project >> 2) because I need to be able to archive a project when it finishes, which >> is much easier if all project items are together in one branch. >> 3) because I want to be able to zoom into projects and sub-projects. >> >> All my project names a prefixed with a hashtag - well, actually a + >> symbol. All my roles are prefixed by &&. That way, when I want to move a >> task into a different role, I can type && to filter down to my roles, or + >> to see just my projects. The ability to filter the list when (ctrl-M) >> moving a task makes it easy to find the destination I want, even in a large >> outline. >> >> Stéph >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mylifeorganized/8nBRO6Quc6E/unsubscribe >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/cdcc6cad-d1e4-4b1d-a4dc-16a2a055277c%40googlegroups.com >> . >> 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 https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/acbc6724-bf5a-4da5-8e4a-cea0376e463d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
