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Getting rid of priorities
Herah | Oct 2 2006
I don't want to do priorities. Managing priorities was the biggest timesuck in my old system; I tended to get stuck in arranging the list and tuning my rules for arranging the list, and nothing got done. On the other hand, my @Work context has 255 active items. My @Home context has 375. Some of them will go away if I ever actually review the whole list, but -- I can't glance over that and make a choice for right now. I need smaller buckets. How do you handle this? 6 Comments
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 On the other hand, my...Submitted by juniorbird on October 2, 2006 - 9:56pm.
Herah;6181 wrote:
On the other hand, my @Work context has 255 active items. My @Home context has 375. Some of them will go away if I ever actually review the whole list, but -- I can't glance over that and make a choice for right now. I need smaller buckets. At least part of this is distinguishing between the project plan and to-do lists. Your project plan should contain at least a reasonably complete summary of your to-dos related to that project -- but the catch is that they're not all next actions, and only next actions should be on your to-do list. If you go through all of your to-dos, you'll probably find that only about 15-20 of those @Work to-dos don't have a previous action that must be done before you can complete them. Even not all of your tasks are contingent on other tasks, when thinking about a project you probably want to do at least some of the tasks before you do other tasks. So, just have those real next actions on your to-do list; the rest you can refer to as you clear your to-do list or in regularly-scheduled reviews, such as your weekly review. » POSTED IN:
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