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What Does Your Projects List Look Like?
hayesr | Dec 5 2006
I'm feeling project-list-inadequacy. For about a year now I've flopped between a simple text-doc with nothing but a list of names I've given to projects and an Omnioutliner outline complete with an outcome and some rough project planning as subpoints. I feel like the outline gets too cluttered and blurs the line that should be between the project list and next actions lists. Then go back to the text-doc but there's no outcome statement to motivate my lazy butt. I could add outcomes to the text-doc but it would double in size and complexity. So I'm curious, what is everyone else doing? 10 Comments
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 I use MLO (www.mylifeorganized.net) for...Submitted by andyc on December 10, 2006 - 3:55pm.
I use MLO (www.mylifeorganized.net) for tracking project next actions. It's kind of weak on the desired outcome and "Why am I doing this?" level of project planning that David talks about, but I generally know why I'm doing a project. I don't need to write it down. My list looks like Work Project 3 Note for all of them there's some kind of "as far as I've thought" plan, but nothing beyond that. And WTNA is "what's the next action?" - my trigger to go and plan on one specific project. I find it hard to do that during any kind of review, so I make a trigger to do a project planning session as a separate exercise. It might only be 10 minutes, but it's 10 minutes with that project and nothing else. HTH » POSTED IN:
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