Hello Joel, I feel your pain! I, too, generated a huge file with various uncompleted tasks, thoughts and someday-tasks in my in-box and completed-but-not-quite-archived projects. I also dabbled with Post-It notes, on-screen Post-Its and switching some work projects to a OneNote-and-Outlook system (shared with my Team).
(Incidentally: The OneNote-and-Outlook system has several great benefits, but has not been great for tracking and managing a dynamic projects list - even if I use tags for highlighting projects and tracking their status. I've gone back to overall management of my work projects and all my non-work tasks in MLO). To regain control of my tasks and Projects in MLO, I've created an "Old Inbox / Someday" folder at root level. I've set it "Hide the branch in To-Do" in General Properties and I've customised some of my filters (eg the projects filter) to exclude items or projects in that branch (Advanced Filter: AND "TopLevelFolderName does not contain "Someday""). I then moved everything from my Inbox to the "Old Inbox", along with some of my potential, future projects. I've promised myself I'll go through the Old Inbox during one or more long journeys or when I haven't got anything else pressing to do, to do, delegate, defer or delete (in true GTD style) or re-instigate any important projects. Good luck with keeping your updated task list manageable. I think that's the biggest challenge that a lot of us face. Stéphane On Wednesday, 28 August 2019 08:59:35 UTC+1, Joel wrote: > > So I think I'm not alone but maybe I am. Because 'reasons' I've fallen > off the wagon keeping up my GTD system. Have been a long-time mlo user > (like v2 or beginning of v3 I think) and have a fairly well formed system > (for my use) but it is now stale. When I say "fallen off the wagon" I > mean I've been keeping it all in my head. Now it's spilling onto post-it > notes. Oh fk, here we go again. > So it's clearly time to bootstrap myself and get back ON the wagon. Ok, > fine. > > Foundation: There is a lot of stuff in my existing file. Some of it may > even still be relevant. Plenty I'm sure has passed, happened, been handled > or exploded. Nonetheless, there is a lot there. > Problem: How do I get started using my file again ensuring I see/deal > with new current items and not get flooded by the clutter of the 'old' > stuff? (at least till I can make some time and energy to start working > through the backlog of it) > I've started adding some items in and they are just washed out in the see > of overdue/older, higher prio, etc items that my views are fleshing out. > > Any others have dealt with a start/stop event like this? What strategies > did you use? > I don't necessarily want to have to modify every one of my views > (eventually I'll need them back to "normal", right?) so looking for > thoughts. > > All ideas welcome. > > I'm on Windows and Android if that that helps/matters. > > Thx. > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/6394acf6-6df8-4254-b0c5-2a9635b77acc%40googlegroups.com.
