Re: Falling behind on accumulating actions

2010-08-06 Thread user4815162342
Thanks, that's exactly what I needed. On Aug 5, 10:36 am, ike9898 ike9...@gmail.com wrote: You could use 'depends on'  this makes all the critiques except for the next one 'future actions'.  Once you complete the next critique, mark it complete, and one from the future actions will become your

Re: Falling behind on accumulating actions

2010-08-05 Thread Gary Buckley
Create a project for Doing Critiques, add your first do critique action as the next action then queue up all the other critique actions on the one before it. This will mean that you have them all listed as needing done but only the first one will show up in the Next Actions list. Clutter = gone.

Re: Falling behind on accumulating actions

2010-08-04 Thread jonas thomas
Hmm.. Any chance of quitting and coming back after a month with a clean slate? It sounds to me that the issue lies further up stream versus your GTD system. Before I stumbled on to GTD [in reading a book called Dreaming in Code] , I use to use make up these to do lists. It seems like wound up

Re: Falling behind on accumulating actions

2010-08-04 Thread John Holden
I've got an answer, but you're not going to like it! It sounds like you are 'time bankrupt'! You have taken on too much and you can't meet your commitments as they fall due. (Don't feel bad - this is really normal!) No matter how much you tinker with a fancy system, you're not going to find

Re: Falling behind on accumulating actions

2010-08-04 Thread user4815162342
In any case, I think I've figured out a way to do this. If I make each one dependent on the one previous, so that only the first one shows up in the list. When I have to add a new critique, then I can simply make the most current one dependent on yet another critique. Now, all I need is to be

Falling behind on accumulating actions

2010-08-03 Thread user4815162342
I've been using mGSD for a couple of weeks, and so far it's been going pretty well. I have what I think is a special use case, but I'm looking for ideas on how to make it easier for me, or to see how other people have solved it. Here's my scenario: I'm a member of a writing group, which requires