Hi everyone. I'm a newbie at GTD. I'm evaluating Doit.im & todoist. So far Doit.im is wining. Todoist seems more like a glorified task manager. Though thats not saying that todoist doesn't have its advantages because it definitely does.
Anyways, i digress, one of the first questions i have is on projects. So you have project A. You enter a bunch of task that you need to do for the project. Generally all the tasks in the project you can't do in parallel so Task B will have to wait for Task A before your able to do it. You don't want it showing up in your Next Action list otherwise you'll get a list of stuff you can't do yet. So what should you mark it as? "Waiting for" doesn't really sound right because thats reserved for tasks where your waiting on other people. "Someday" doesn't sound right either because Project A is an active project for Projects or singular tasks you plan to do in the future. I wish it was possible to just associated it with a project and not a list but i don't know that its possible
You might want to take a look at Zendone or GTDNext if you want more powerful and automated handlings of subsequent tasks.
But I am here for a number of reasons, so I have to us eworkaround for this (and I find Todoist even worse).
Whar I di is I use Priority None for the subsequent tasks. Most of them I put in Someday (review every week), but the ones that are "just around the corner" I put in Next (review every day). When the become possible I give them a priority, often Blue (medium).
BTW I use Priorit as a "review frequency indicator". Blue mean review ever day, turquiose every week an red means review/consider every single time I glance at the Next or Waiting list during the day.
As you say, the Waiting list is for other people's actions, deliveries that I am waiting for. That's a different story altogether. And Someday is not correct either, but I keep my "real" Someday actions prioritized, too, with longer review intervals, though, so I can easily find the subsequent project tasks (Prio None) whenever I want.
But I am here for a number of reasons, so I have to us eworkaround for this (and I find Todoist even worse).
Whar I di is I use Priority None for the subsequent tasks. Most of them I put in Someday (review every week), but the ones that are "just around the corner" I put in Next (review every day). When the become possible I give them a priority, often Blue (medium).
BTW I use Priorit as a "review frequency indicator". Blue mean review ever day, turquiose every week an red means review/consider every single time I glance at the Next or Waiting list during the day.
As you say, the Waiting list is for other people's actions, deliveries that I am waiting for. That's a different story altogether. And Someday is not correct either, but I keep my "real" Someday actions prioritized, too, with longer review intervals, though, so I can easily find the subsequent project tasks (Prio None) whenever I want.
