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Homework Assignments: Where do they go?
odie5533 | Oct 22 2007
As a student, I get many homework assignments from reading, to worksheets, to completing problem sets in a text. I was wondering, where should these assignments go in my GTD system? I was thinking contexts for each subject, but that seems to over-complicate my contexts which the GTD book says to avoid. Then I thought just put them in one context, but then where do due dates go, and they get rather jumbled in one context. Some homework needs to get completed sooner than others, so it's a deadline. But most of my tasks are related to homework, so then I'm putting most of my next actions (homework) on my calendar. If anyone could point me in the right direction here, I'd greatly appreciate it. 4 Comments
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 Re: HomeworkSubmitted by augmentedfourth on October 22, 2007 - 10:26am.
Man, I don't know what I would have done if I were already a GTD nerd back in college... I would probably have felt the same dilemma. Remember this from GTD: Everything with a pre-determined date goes on your "hard landscape" (i.e. your calendar). Next Actions are those fungible "do it when there's time" tasks. My suggestion is to put the due dates on your hard landscape, but then break up the assignments into individual pieces on your next action list(s). For example, put "Term Paper Due" on your calendar, but then break it into its various research and composition steps and put those down as next actions. If you need the extra motivation to make sure those steps get accomplished within a reasonable timeframe, you may even want to schedule them on your hard landscape. But DON'T put something down on your calendar AND in your next actions list... that will just lead to confusion later on. dr.marty has some great ideas as well... make sure you pick a system that works for you. » POSTED IN:
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