So, one level of priority screening is based on desire and/or foreseeable ability to handle something and uses the hold or active status for a project. based on my desire to do them) and use defer dates based on when a project or task cannot be done according to outside constraints (i.e. So I wonder how you handle this? Do you flag everything? Put things on hold? To me it feels like I’m missing something, like there’s a very simple solution and I just don’t get it yet because I’m still looking to replace my old workflow with the Priority-Lists + Contexts…Īs WilsonNg, I put projects on hold until they are ready for consideration (when I believe I can do them – i.e.

Also it’s a bit messy to always set a new defer date especially if you get the flu like I got a few weeks ago…and then everything is a mess. Most of my tasks I just need to do “next” you know…not on December 3rd etc. I tried doing this by using defer-dates and then having them in the forecast…but I don’t see them anymore in the forecast when the defer date was yesterday and I couldn’t come up with a perspective that showed me what I wanted.Īlso I don’t want to add a defer date to every task. So if I had a task I wanted to work on ASAP I put it in “Next Actions”…then I worked on those and when it was blank I went to Someday/Maybe and moved tasks into “Next Actions” etc. I’m sort of struggling with managing my tasks in regards to priorities and wonder how you’re doing that.īefore I used another tool where I had multiple contexts and I simply had a “Next Actions” and a “Someday/Maybe” context.

Gtd workflowy