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Waiting For's & Agenda's

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

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Sounds like your "stuff" re:...

Nick;6309 wrote:
Sounds like your "stuff" re: Nicky does exist in two places. One is in his Agenda and the other is on your generic W/F card.

To quote my first post: "What I don't know is how to keep my Waiting 4's associated with their original agenda."

I don't think I'm explaining this well.

The overall project is 'carry out audit'. (which ought to be on a card of its own, but isn't -- it is in the audit database, though so I don't have to remember it).

The first NA was '@Nicky -- arrange an audit'.

I then went to see Nicky and she said she was too busy to arrange a time right then, so we agreed that she would propose a time.

So, that action, in its @Nicky context is complete. There are no actions on Nicky's agenda. But there is a new action on the 'WF card'. If I needed to see Nicky about something else, that would go onto her agenda, but about this audit, there's nothing to do at the moment.

That any clearer?

S

 
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