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Getting rid of priorities
Herah | Oct 2 2006
I don't want to do priorities. Managing priorities was the biggest timesuck in my old system; I tended to get stuck in arranging the list and tuning my rules for arranging the list, and nothing got done. On the other hand, my @Work context has 255 active items. My @Home context has 375. Some of them will go away if I ever actually review the whole list, but -- I can't glance over that and make a choice for right now. I need smaller buckets. How do you handle this? 6 Comments
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 ... Some of them will...Submitted by jethro. on October 2, 2006 - 12:45pm.
Herah;6181 wrote:
... Some of them will go away if I ever actually review the whole list, but -- I can't glance over that and make a choice for right now.... Herah, I'd argue that you desperately need to review the whole list. Unless your next actions are amazingly granular, you can't expect to do them all in the next week or so. So, in your weekly review, shift the bulk of them to someday/maybe and focus on those you have a fighting chance at addressing this week, or maybe two. Herein lies the bugbear: you have to be sure you'll do the NEXT weekly review, where you'll find those items waiting for you. If you don't trust your system, you'll get no joy from putting things in someday/maybe. Good luck! » POSTED IN:
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