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Newbie question - actions 'by' a certain date?
aberrant | May 14 2006
I just finished reading GTD and I've already blocked off 2 days to get started, but something's still bothering me: what about actions that need to get done by (but not necessarily ON) a certain date? An example is a paper that needs to be written: assume that all the research has been done, and the task of writing the paper remains. Let's say it will take approximately 12 hours to write, and it's due next Thursday. How do I capture this? If I put a calendar item in for Thursday, it could be that I miss the deadline since I didn't allocate enough time. If I put it in my actions list, then I'm not guaranteed to get to it by the deadline. (Or have I missed some fundamental piece of this process?) 9 Comments
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 I found this a bit...Submitted by mcnicks on May 14, 2006 - 2:47pm.
I found this a bit difficult to get my head around. I think that the main method for catching deadlines is to look over future events in your calendar at review time. That way, you get an overview of what is coming up at least once a week. In the example you have given, you might put "hand in paper" into your calendar on next Thursday. At your next review, you would see this coming up and generate an action like "review topics for paper". » POSTED IN:
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