Thanks all for some thoughtful replies. Stephan, my system is in further disarray than that (idle probably 6+ mos) and my problems span past just an unprocessed inbox. Appreciate the input and ideas.
Susanah (and Wallace), thank you. Good thoughts and glad you've made something work for you. I think our systems are a bit too fundamentally different as what you describe would be a lot of fundamental changes to a lot of my outline(s) and probably to a lot of my views as a result. I could probably make it such that it would be able to continue to work after "I'm clear" but it's more up front work than I can be "bothered" with right now. I need the energy to get rebooted, not just to tinker with my system. I feel your pain about reviews. I'm in the boat too, probably a multitudes worse offender. Probably/partially as a result (and for better or worse) my system is set up such that my "doing" views are pretty highly leveraged on Contexts and my Inbox is *highly* structured to apply many contexts on input. This makes it so that many tasks are ready for doing, and even often get done, before they ever get processed out of the inbox. (think within the same day and even within a couple days of getting input, eg when inbox processing is "slow" or neglected.) And finally, as I mentioned to Stephan, my stagnation sprawls far beyond the inbox, into projects large and small. There's a metric crap-ton (scientific term) of stuff that's just "expired" and can be purged but some in there is probably important to follow up so I can't just purge wholesale. Things lent & unreturned for example, other @waitingfor items, commitments to some long term projects that may or not have blown up yet (because I've been tending the project, but out of my head), sales pipeline that may or not be dead (prob. more dead but still) Dwight, I like your idea about stealing a field and using it for a grouping and I'm playing with it. For the most part I can probably make it work (Goal = Year I think). The problem I'm finding is that the grouping doesn't seem to affect views with an outline (ie non-flat). Any tricks for that or is that a limit I just have to live with? Thanks all. On Wednesday, August 28, 2019 at 3:59:35 AM UTC-4, 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/c805e71c-cba0-4f0c-be2a-2178129ea695%40googlegroups.com.
