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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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 Where My Prob Is...Submitted by Nick on October 17, 2006 - 3:47pm.
I want to thank you for your well thought out insights. It sounds like you have a good grasp of GTD. I see that your sprinkling your advice rather liberally in the posts... "Write it down it two places." Why didn't I think of that? So simple. But tell me, why do you suggest writing it in two places? What are the advantages? Wouldn't one suffice? Which one? Oh wait, I know why I don't want it in two places. Hey it's right here in a prior post. I was using "Nicky" as an example of a Context/Agenda: "My goal is to have All-Things-Nicky that are moving parts on the Nicky list, so that when I have a face to face or I'm on the phone, it's right there in front of me, in one place. I don't find that it helps the conversation much to have to hunt through my Waiting 4 list to find the 1, 2, 3 or more things I'm waiting for from Nicky. It's inefficient and it's distracting to see all of those other items that have nothing to do w/my conversation w/Nicky." You know, it might be better if you read the posts before commenting ... » POSTED IN:
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