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New list UPCOMMING, sorting by

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kielmar7 06/13/2017 17:15

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Hello.

Is it possible somehow to add another list called UPCOMMING (besides the next, someday, tomorrow, etc)? The default for a new action is NEXT. But in GTD next is only for the next action. And not all actions are the next action. I could use SOMEDAY, but this in the GTD scheme is for something else and I don't want to mix it up.

Is there a way to sort the actions within the lists, projects etc by context, start day etc?

Those two functions would be very helpfull.
Thanks.
MK

Sharon_SXY post on 06/14/2017 08:13#2

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Hi, thank you for your suggestion !
1. I think what "NEXT" expresses is just the meaning you said about "UPCOMING". I would suggest to do the day or week review, move tasks from NEXT to TODAY or TOMORROW (a specific day), rather than accumulating plenty of tasks in NEXT box.
2. It's a good idea to divide projects by context when you have lots of projects to do. We would add it to our plan and consider about it.
We have only "frozen" and "activated" so far.
HOWEVER: in NEXT box, you can choose either"show one" or "show all" (all clients but not web). If "show one", only the first task of every project would appear. First tasks are divided by the projects.

Thank your for your support and advice!
kielmar7 post on 06/14/2017 13:39#3

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Thanks for a quick answer. What would you suggest if I have a project with many actions and I already know which actions are the NEXT ACTIONS? In the GTD I mark them NEXT ACTION and the other leave without any mark. How to do this in doit.im?
My idea is the following: I add actions to the project with default time as UPCOMING. Then I mark the next actions as NEXT. And when I know when I can do them I mark them for TODAY, TOMORROW or SCHEDULE.
Thanks.
Sharon_SXY post on 06/16/2017 07:49#4

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Hi， thank you for your advice !
If you do have plenty of tasks in "NEXT", and some of them you mark as NEXT ACTIONS, some of them not. My suggestion is you can sort them by priority or contexts or project or deadline first.
If you sort them by contexts, you can set a context as "UPCOMING" or a curtain name special for those tasks. Then, they would be in that context, separated from others.
Or you can set a special tag for those tasks, then you can filter them out.

Hope it helps. Thank you very much for your feedback !