Re: To-do or not to-do

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Outliners.com Message ID: 3197

Posted by sub
2005-05-06 10:59:06

Jack

Thanks for bringing this issue up; I’m sure everyone can benefit from reading each other’s approaches.

I personally take a similar route to Steve Z.‘s in terms of planning a project, i.e. starting in Brainstorm or Freemind to note and roughly analyse the actions. However, as I work in several projects at the same time, I need some kind of in-context reminder system. For this I use Hyperclip, which is my carry-around general project infobase, containing descriptions, contacts, budgets, notes, etc.

Hyperclip is a regular two pane outliner, but benefits from a flat “Index” view, where all entries are sorted alphabetically; this can be filtered by type of entry, i.e. Contact, To-Do, Reminder, Diary, Information etc.

What I do is to create Reminder entries within the various projects I am working on, noting the next priority action; I start the Reminder titles with “!” so that they appear at the top of the list in both filtered and unfiltered Index views.

(In case the above sounds familiar, I’ve mentioned some of it before in http://www.outliners.com/discuss/msgReader$3095?mode=day )

The benefit of this approach is that I can review my tasks both as a flat list and within the specific project context.

alx

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