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Someday, Maybe Never- project or context?
Simon Pride | Sep 29 2007
I recently moved a load of actions from a project (things to write about in my tech blog) [1] into my Someday, Maybe Never project, and then it suddenly struck me that maybe it wasn't a project at all, but a context. It makes sense if you think about it from the Contexts view - when you're executing, you just look at the context you're in at the time (calls, errands etc) and because you've never given one of your active contexts to the actions, you never see them in your current context context. In Projects/Planning mode, they're probably just single action projects anyway, because you've not put sufficient thought into them for them to acquire any structure. The benefits of treating SMN as a context to me include:
Maybe this makes no sense to anyone but me. Thoughts? [1] the reason is, I'm trying to work out how to get paid for writing that stuff, and refocusing my unpaid writing time on something more creative 4 Comments
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 Taking SomedayMaybe project out of OFSubmitted by wreising on October 15, 2007 - 7:33pm.
I like the idea of having a list of SomedayMaybe projects in a separate text file (mine would be in my Yojimbo Weekly Review folder). However, I would worry about the fact that it would take a couple extra steps to take a newly someday maybe project out of OF and put it into the list. Especially if I had done some next action planning. The idea of retyping that text up to two times is unappealing. I see Merlin's point about keeping SomedayMaybe projects away from the working projects and actions, and the single SomedayMaybe list is very appealing. I might give it a shot. But as with all things GTD, I am wary of changes that add steps to an otherwise drag-free system. » POSTED IN:
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