@romainm
Hi,

Q: The smart add shortcuts feature is nice (@ for context, # for projects etc). It would be nice to have a shortcut for goals.
A: Do you think which shortcut is better for goals? We will consider it seriously.

Q: Tasks lists display project contexts and so on. It would be nice to display goals as well.
A: We are afraid that too many information on the task bar will make you cannot pay attention to the task itself.

Thank you for your support!

Best regards,
Doit.im Team

Hi,

Q: Do you think which shortcut is better for goals?
A: Maybe + (it's a frequently used symbol, so I know where it is on my keyboard ;) or ? (some kind of "why", like goals are my whys)...

Q: We are afraid that too many information on the task bar will make you cannot pay attention to the task itself.
A: You're right. I don't have the solution.
My issue is that in my someday list, I have a lot of stuffs, so I need something to help me when I check for tasks to move in my next list.
By now, I have a mix of practices:
- I sort by project, so project related stuffs are out of scope (I will review them as part of the project review)
- I have a "Read / Do / Watch" project for all the stuffs that are not tasks but ideas of movies, books, and other activities. The issue with that is that to drop tasks in this project, it has to be active, so it pollutes my project list => that's why I have only one project and not one for movies, one for books etc.
- all the tasks that remains are my candidates for next actions (but I would like to have more sub divisions)
I know this is not perfect, but I don't know how to do it in a better way. What would be nice for my usage, is to have sub-folders, as sub-lists in my someday list (and this is an idea I've seen in David Allen's book!). If you have any suggestion to help me review my someday tasks, you're welcome!

Thanks again for doing such a great app!

Best regards,
Romain

@romainm

Let me try and see if my approach would suit you:

All my Someday tasks are true Maybe tasks. I have not even decided whether I want them done. I do not use Someday as a "low priority Next" container.

So all my Next actions are things that I have decided to do any could be started now. I use the priorities (colors) to indicate how often (at least) I need to seriously review them. Low means once per week, Medium (normal) means once a day, and High means on every visit to the Next list. I use exactly the same for Waiting (those are other people's Next action and could be completed anytime now, and some are more critical than others.) http://help.doit.im/group/topic/55

I use priorities in the same way even for Someday, but with different meaning (Low=every 4 months; Medium=every week; High= more often if I have time to check)

As for Goals I use these as "project folders". All my projects and tasks belong to Goal. Some of these Goals are "Areas", Some are "super-projects". I also use Projects as containers for single actions within a given AoR (sub-Area), just to keep theme easy to find and review.
http://help.doit.im/group/topic/60
http://help.doit.im/group/topic/92

@wendy_only

¤ could also be a nice shortcut (I've seen this one in a post from Folke): it looks like a target (wich makes it easy to remember).

@Folke

Thanks for your suggestions.

I had under estimated the power of priorities for review purpose.
I don't feel comfortable with setting a priority on every new task (it's a extra action). So, "None" is my default, and because priorities get sorted High > Medium > Low > None, I end up with the ability to raise priority by 3 steps, but unable to lower it.
I would like to be able to choose the default priority (let's say Low), to be able to raise or lower priority above or under the "normal" task.
But that's a minor issue: priorities still help. Thanks for that.

As for Goals as "project folders", you got the point: I didn't used a project for single tasks. I feel strange with the need of such a placeholder (it looks to me that a feature is missing), and that's why I asked for displaying the goal on each task (like a path: /my_goal/my_project).
I can leave with placeholder projects, but it clutters my project list. This is more visible with the someday list, because I put all kind of stuff there, even stuff that are not actions (ideas, checklists ...).
Your posts made me think about goals, and yes better sorting and filtering would do the job: what I want is to group by goal then by project then sort by priority.