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2010-09-27, 07:37 AM
Good morning everyone,
I'm sure this has been posted before, but I'm having a hard time finding anything.
One of the most important things of GTD for me is the weekly plan. I have been flip-flopping back and forth with two schools of thought and I wanted to get some feedback on what all of you are doing (either with feedback on my method(s) or the methods you use). I own OF for Mac, iPhone and iPad.
For both of these methods I use the "Available" view.
Method 1:
MOVE ALL ACTIVE PROJECTS INTO A "THIS WEEK" FOLDER
Basically, each week I would take a look at all my projects and move them into this folder if "I wanted to/they had to" get worked on this week.
PRO:
This is great in that it really lets me concentrate everything in one folder.
CON:
I like to keep my projects in alphabetical order, so they're easy to find, so it becomes a pain to move them out of the "This Week" folder and put them back in order of the general "Projects" folder.
Method 2:
GIVE ALL PROJECTS I NEED TO/WANT TO WORK ON AN 'AVAILABLE' STATUS; ALL OTHERS GET 'ON HOLD'
PRO:
Easy to Option-Click projects in bulk to make them Active/On Hold (I find it much faster to do this on the Mac rather than the planning mode of the iPad version).
CON:
Need to always remember to turn on 'available' to get an accurate picture.
Hopefully this makes sense to everyone.
What's your take?
Thanks in advance,
Marc