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Tracking Leisure projects?
Jamie Phelps | Apr 3 2006
I wanted to pick the board's collective brain about how you classify and pursue personal/leisure projects. For instance, I am teaching myself a foreign language. I carry my book with me a lot and I keep my vocab organized in a program called Genius on my Mac. When I do the practice speaking thing, I do that in private, usually at work when no one is around or at home. To make it more complicated, I am also in school, so a "study" context doesn't exactly do it for me since when I have school stuff to do, I don't need my personal studies knocking around together with it because it's not as important and will get backburnered until I get back around to it. So, how would you track NAs for such a project? It doesn't seem to warrant its own context, but I'm not sure where to go from here. Others of my personal projects aren't so odd. When I am designing a new web page or tweaking my site's theme, that just goes into my @webdesign context. Perhaps it shouldn't since two of the sites are higher priority. Anyway, I'm rambling. I think you get the idea. 1 Comment
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I've got two context that...Submitted by GTD Wannabe on April 3, 2006 - 2:38pm.
I've got two context that are actually duplicated, e.g., @Online- and @Online+, @Laptop- and @Laptop+. The + contexts are for things that are important to my research, etc., i.e., front burner stuff. The - contexts are for things that I want to do/lookup for my own amusement, i.e., backburner stuff. I've even separated out my @Concentrate activites from @Home vs. @Housework, just so I could focus more on the higher priority items. Finally, I created a separate category for @Blog, because those items would be the first ones that I can drop off my radar. Hope this helps! » POSTED IN:
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