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Waiting For's & Agenda's
Nick | Oct 16 2006
I have a question that has bugged me for quite some time. As background, please know that I use Omni/Kinkless/ICal the way Merlin hooked it up. I have about 12 contexts & agenda-calendar's in ICal that contain my GTD lists. What I don't know is how to keep my Waiting 4's associated with their original agenda. For example, if I have a meeting with John and he is supposed to get back to me re: such & who, my current methodology is to re-direct that todo from John's agenda to Waiting For. Obviously, the problem here is that, that-which-I'm-waiting for is no longer associated with John, but is now in a list of other waiting fo's. How do you, fellow posters, handle this conundrum? Thanks, Nick 13 Comments
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 I'm not sure how the...Submitted by SteveC on October 17, 2006 - 5:43am.
Nick;6306 wrote: I'm not sure how the index card system works per se, but I'm guessing that it's similar to the ICal/Kinkless system in that there are lists of Next Actions associated by Contexts. Yep -- one card for each context Quote:
It sounds like you are removing Nicky's NA from one list and putting it on another called, "WF Nicky." If I understand you correctly, your recommendation could potentially neccessitate two Contexts/Agenda's for each person w/whom you commonly have an Agenda. In the above example you'd be maintaining an Agenda called "Nicky" and another called "W4 Nicky." Not quite -- there's a card called @Nicky (yes, it's an 'agenda', but it's also a 'context'). There's also a card called 'Waiting For' -- just one card with all my W/Fs on it. I review that (fairly) regularly (certainly more often than once a week) to see if there's anyone I need to chase. (I tend to treat W/F a bit like a context as well). Quote: This seems cumbersome in that Nicky's stuff (assuming there's more than one item on the agendas), lives in multiple places. Ideally, it would be more effiecient to have all NA's regarding Nicky to reside in just one place. Your list of All-Things-Nicky would contain NA's, Someday/Maybe's and W4's. This methodology would be particularly useful if you need to maintain several NA's and W4-NA's across the agenda's of multiple people. No -- that would go onto one or more project cards. I keep the Agenda items, W/Fs and NAs (on the other contexts) as atomic as possible. Quote: Since your using a paper GTD system you could use a highlighter to flag an item as "W4" and keep it on the original list. ...but I use Sonia Simone's method of markin complete tasks by crossing them out with a highlighter, so that wouldn't work :D. Hope some of that helps Steve » POSTED IN:
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