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2007-08-22, 04:09 PM
My canonical singletons action groups:
Grocery Shopping (non repeating tasks)
Household chores (with some repeating, some non repeating tasks)
There are several others as well, but these are my standard examples.
I agree that it's weird to say that they aren't projects but then stick them under projects. It might make more sense to just change the name of the top level "projects" folder rather than move them elsewhere. I still want to have them live near/with my other projects within folders.
Also, in many cases the singletons "groups" (buckets) are really projects of a sort. For the most part they are "perpetual" projects. I.e. Grocery Shopping singletons bucket is really a perpetual project that has a goal of "maintain stock of food for the upcoming week's meals".
So for me, the key difference between singletons and "normal" projects is that singletons projects are, generally, perpetual and never complete.
In some cases, singleton tasks may break out and become full projects on their own (this happens for me with "Household chores" where what I thought was a single task turns into a project when I realize it is actually multiple physical actions).
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