Re #1: It's known that it's not very easy to use subprojects. But if you projects are extremely hierarchical, maybe you should be using a real project management tool, which mGTD is not intended to be. If you look at a project, you should see all its owned taskes
Re #2: I also have trouble with having lots of tasks and trying to figure out which is the next action. However there are stars which can form a very simple (binary) priority system. Again I think if you are spending a lot of effort prioritizing your tasks, you are detracting from the simplicity of GTD itself. One thing that helps me is to make sure most of my tasks are owned by projects, and to only let a few projects be active at one time. This keeps my next actions list manageable. Then when I finish some projects, I can go find another project to make active, and get a few more tasks. You are supposed to 'forget' about the other projects, confident that they have been captured in your GTD system, and it's this forgetting that actually allows you to focus on the few active tasks and get your work done. You could also start your tasks with numbers and your projects with letters (ABC) or something like that, and they would always sort in priority order. Re #3: someone already pointed you to that other thread. I am trying it too, but the main solution is to keep very few next actions for your active projects, and don't worry about the future actions until your next actions have been exhausted. If your lucky enough to get to that point before your weekly review, you can review just that active project for a couple more next actions. Re #4: When you look at a project, it's very easy to make a tickler for that project (there's a + sign by the Upcoming Ticklers list. Just click on that to make a tickler which says "make this project active" and set the date, and then forget about the project. For example, I have a project for my annual taxes, and six weeks before they are due, my tickler is set to tell me to make the project active. Hope that helps, Jason On Jan 5, 7:03 pm, Drew <[email protected]> wrote: > mGTD is a great tool. It's great for capturing data in a flexible > format. For the last six months, it's made a significant difference > in my ability to execute on the GTD system. There are a few features > that I really long for as I collect more active projects and tasks. > > 1) hierarchical view of projects and tasks. The current views don't > display the relationships between the projects. > > 2) priority for project and tasks. This would help with sorting for > reports and also for determining which tasks become next action > tasks. It makes a big difference when you have a hundred tasks to > only review the next 25 of priority 2 tasks instead of all 100. > > 3) dependent projects and tasks. Some projects and tasks can't be > started until others are completed, and they shouldn't be listed as > next (or possibly even active) until their dependencies are completed. > > 4) add tickler button for projects and tasks. When I make a project a > tickler to be reminded of it later, I lose the view it provides of > tasks and sub projects. I'd usually rather add a ticker than convert > it to a tickler. This would include adding a tickler section to the > project and task views. > > Do you know if any of these are on the near horizon or if any of them > would be easy for me to take on. My javascript skills are weak and > rusty, but I'd be willing to brush up a bit for simple tasks. > > Thanks, > Drew --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GTD TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/GTD-TiddlyWiki?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
