Yojimbo for GTD lists

2008-05-06 Thread dsm101
> I have to say your use of Yojimbo as > an everyday GTD tool is pretty impressive. > Just the ambition to try and use it that > way is impressive. I don’t really see that > as the purpose of Yojimbo. (It’s really > just considered an archival application.) The purpose of Yojimbo doesn't encompas

More about how I use Yojimbo

2008-05-06 Thread dsm101
> I read and re-read your post. I find > your system impressive but very confusing > to me. Maybe I made things sound more complicated than they had to be by giving too many details. Basically, whether I'm doing a GTD review or I'm making plans for a particular project (which are two differen

Dragging to a tag collection *should* assign all associated tags

2008-05-06 Thread dsm101
> What would happen if the tag collection > had several tags associated with it? > Would you assign all of the available > tags to an item dragged to that > collection? Absolutely. Why else would I be dragging it to that collection, if not because I wanted it to appear in that collection? --

Moving isn't a typical project for me (thankfully!)

2008-05-06 Thread dsm101
> So, as a simple example, say you're moving homes. I think you'd picked an example that doesn't really map well onto my usual situation with a project, in two regards: First, more than half of my projects are things where, once the project is completed, I still want to have the notes easil

Re: More about how I use Yojimbo

2008-05-06 Thread infrahile
Sounds like you need OmniFocus. I find it works perfectly with YJ - any detailed notes, saved documents I have relating to a task in YJ can be linked to from OF by pasting the item link as a note for the task making the two work pretty seamlessly together. T. On 6 May 2008, at 13:26, [E

Why I don't use tags -- I'm not a spatial thinker, I'm just lazy

2008-05-06 Thread dsm101
> You’re definitely not alone in your > hesitance to use tags. David said > this weekend that humans are spatial > thinkers. Which is why stuffing things > into an established hierarchy makes > more sense than tags. While it’s true > that - some - people are spatial > thinkers, there are also peop

Re: More about how I use Yojimbo

2008-05-06 Thread Bill Rowe
On 5/6/08 at 5:26 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (The reason David Allen recommends a simple A-to-Z filing system as part of the GTD method, it seems to me, is less about ease of retrieval and more about ease of filing. For me, this is where Yojimbo excels. With the current model, I don't need