[HappyDude]

Originally Posted by Lucas

There's a lot here; I think I have just a couple of things that I can say about my experience.

I would say, first, that I know what you mean about not having that sense of accomplishment at the end of the day. I think that is normal if, like me, you don't set out a today list, since at the end of the day, there will be probably a whole bunch of things that you still have available that weren't done. I think the beneficial part of the trade is that you get some sense of accomplishment when you complete projects that you wouldn't have seen a way to completing or wouldn't have ended up completing had you not broken them up.

Just briefly, I think that OF can enable procrastination, such as your issue with your math, because it allows you to pick from all of your available actions and, of course, that allows you to just never pick from your math actions. It is a little risky like that - I think you have to be careful.

The practical suggestion that may help with the math issue is to do a little re-ordering and a little adjustment to your view settings to help remind you how much you have to do your math. This is geared towards OF for the Mac, which I use, and it seems like you are just on OF for iPhone, so I don't know, I hope it helps. In any case, in your project list, I would move your math projects to the very top, or maybe, just below your review project. Then, in the context view, I would group by project or group by context and order by project, so that your math tasks are at or near the top. Then, you just have to remember that these tasks are at the top because you really have to do them.

Thanks for the reply. Concerning Math I can say that many of these little action steps are due on specific days. I do have OF on my Mac and obviously prefer working out of it than the iPod Touch app but the app still does wonders for me. The only thing I don't like about the app is I can't work as freely or rapidly as I do with the OF Mac app.. I once tried to do my Weekly Review through the iPhone app since I knew I was to be away from home for a few days and I just couldn't do it. The functionality isn't there compared with the desktop app. Well with OF I utilize the Estimate Time and Start Dates if they can't be touched right away. I don't really use the Due Dates, but know I should.

Lately I've been feeling/thinking: Sometimes I just wanna be lazy. I'll start my day eager to get things done but usually by noon, after eating lunch and feel a bit tired i'll want nothing more than to just give myself the freedom to do nothing. For a moment I thought about "doing nothing" and adding that as an action in OF and couldn't help but laugh.