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writing a book and have too many next actions
chadgr | Oct 14 2006
Hi. I'm just getting started on GTD while part way into writing a book. I've gone through the collection process and most of the things I wrote as tasks on my mind (and now in my inbox) relate to the book. Perhaps I don't understand how to process the inbox correctly, but I'm wondering whether the whole book should be my one project (with a ton of action items) or if I should break it into subprojects in KGTD (e.g., gather information on issue A, collect photographs for Chapter 5). If I keep it as a single project, it seems I have an unmanageable number of actions each of which could be eligible for a "next action." I hope I'm making sense. Any suggestions would be appreciated. 11 Comments
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 While your miliage will clearly...Submitted by tychoish on October 22, 2006 - 2:00pm.
While your miliage will clearly varry, there are a couple of very logical way that you might think about breaking up a book. I'm no expert, but it's always seems to me that the first key is to keep the invidiual tasks as specific as you can, rather than vauge "write 1000 words in the morning," something like "wrap up chapter 3" and so forth. One way to break up "the book," is by aspect. Use different projects for data collection, analysis, outlining, drafting, revising, seeking feedback. Frankly, I wish KGTD had a cascading context feature. Ultimitly it's all different contexts, even if it's in your head, so maybe you keep the single project, and then have a context of computer-_____, where ___ is the "aspect." Which would work. I haven't tested it out, but surely you can have various levels of an action. WIth start and end dates, you can keep your scope narrow enough, to not be descrited by everything that is going to be comming up, but you don't have to break the system too much. I hope that made sense, » POSTED IN:
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