Hello
I just got an insight. First a little background: On my system, if a task is Active in MLO it means "do this week". I use the Active view and move the Start Dates into the future (using keyboard hotkeys), so that I don't even see them for [X] days. This is my "Tickler List" in GTD speak. Then at the start of each day, I look at all my Active tasks and give a Star to any task that is "do today". So far so good. However my insight is: Just because a task has become visible does not *necessarily* mean that it is "do this week". What it really means is: "*consider *doing this week"! i.e. In effect "Review this week"... but no, the decision to actually "do it this week" has not yet been taken! So what has been happening is that my "do this week" lists of tasks keep getting cluttered up with stuff that I had only kicked into the future, but which I have not YET decided to actually do this week - if at all! And being a v slow reader, this has been leading to clutter and overwhelm. BACKGROUND At present I am using a Context-tag to flag up stuff that is on my "Do Someday/Maybe" list. And on most of my views I remove these from view (using an Advanced filter). And because I have quite so many tasks in this "Someday/Maybe" list, I also have a "Do Soon" Context-tag, that also removes tasks from my views. "Do Soon" is something that I keep fairly small in number, and which I will review during the week when I have a bit of slack time. Whereas "Do Someday/Maybe" only gets reviewed once per week, sometimes once per two weeks. For truly long-terms stuff I have an Archive folder where I dump stuff for reviewing in 6+ months, rather than actually deleting it. But I am now wondering how to distinguish "actually do this week" tasks from tasks that have merely appeared from my Tickler List. Do I really to assign a "This_Week" context to each task I'm going to execute? Any thoughts? J -- 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/d66af48e-e02e-4501-997c-2ccd253daca5%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
