I just set up a similar approach as Trevor. At this point, all of my tasks are subtasks of a folder based on functional area, but that isn't relevant to this solution. Under every folder is a sub-folder with the following traits: Name: Someday Folder checked Hide Branch checked Review set to one month.
Everything that is something I don't want to forget, but am not ready to get to now, or even schedule goes into one of these folders. Then I set up a Someday view that shows every task in a folder named Someday, which brings all of these together. I am waffling between whether I want this to be a flat file or hierarchical. The advantage to putting these in separate folders under each high level folder, is I have a choice later to see the outline view or flatten it. On Thursday, May 3, 2018 at 4:49:38 AM UTC-4, John . Smith wrote: > > > > 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/d733361c-7b7e-4c12-8fd5-93d5bfc8d67e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
