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A 'Next actions' question -GTD newbie question
akapulko2020 | May 8 2006
Hi all , Let's say that I have a project which is to mail some books to a friend of mine .So first I need to get her adress :this contains of an action of emailing her ,then waiting for her reply. What I can't figure out ,is whether I should have all those listed as next actions in their separate contexts ,for the same project ,at the same time -ort should I enter the first action,then complete it ,and only then add the next action to it's context? I mean ,in most cases there are numerous and dependent actions in a project ,which belong to different contexts,right? I'm using the "nextaction" tracking tool for managing my next actions,and there's no way of defining dependency there -but the mail question is ,how is this supposed to work,the real-GTD way? Thanks :) 24 Comments
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 This thread touches on exactly...Submitted by a11en on May 10, 2006 - 6:14am.
This thread touches on exactly what one of my earlier questions was... and that was the concept of linked tasks. I completely agree with you here, and I think this may be one of the small downfalls of the system(s) for gtd out there. It's obvious that GTD is important in terms of lowering our brain load... but there does appear to still be a bit of load in that I have to remember a few task lists back what was dependent on what. The solution to this is some sort of parent-child-sibling situation that's smart enough to tell you if you *can* do the next task or not. I don't know if D.Allen just assumes you'll catch the actions you can't do, and go down to the next one or not, but it wasn't readily apparent to me. I think I confused the problem by talking about a simplified Gantt project view coupled with a to-do-list. But, you boiled it down- what about dependent projects That's exactly my problem. It's brother needs to be completed before it can be completed... and often these types of tasks are in different action lists. Good post!! » POSTED IN:
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