 | jpuphill  says:First of all, I would like to say how helpful this forum has been in helping me come up this approach. I have read so many posts and learnt so much about how people use RTM. I wanted to give something back and so am posting how I have mapped GTD to RTM.
Use Lists for Areas of Focus
I use lists to categorise every task, e.g.
Family
Friends
Personal
Work
N.B. Having all work related tasks in the Work list allows me to easily include/exclude work tasks from smart lists
Use Locations for Contexts
I use either the real location or for virtual locations, I use somewhere I would never be, e.g.
calls - Arctic Ocean (i.e. nowhere you would ever be)
computer - Arctic Ocean (i.e. nowhere you would ever be)
errands - Arctic Ocean (i.e. nowhere you would ever be)
home - Real Location
office - Real Location
Use Tags for non-Scheduled GTD status
next - Next Action
wait - Waiting For
someday - Someday / Maybe
Use Due Date for Scheduled GTD status
01/05/2012 - Scheduled
Use Tags for Actionable Date
This is my work around for the lack of a start date in RTM
Actionable period is relative to the due date when there is a due date
Actionable period is relative to the added date when there is no due date
Actionable tags use the format:
anu
where:
a = Actionable
n = Number (1, 2, 3, 4)
u = Unit (d = day, w = week, m = month)
e.g. a1d = 1 day, a2w = 2 weeks, a3m = 3 months
Creating Projects
1. Create a task with the project name
2. Add project tag to task (#project)
3. Add project specific tag to task which begins with p- (e.g. #p-project-name)
4. Create a smart list which searches for the project specific tag
Creating Tasks
1. Add list to task (e.g. Personal, Work)
2. Add location to task (e.g. computer, office)
3. Add priority to task
4. Add project specific tag to task if required (e.g. #p-project-name)
5. Add GTD status tag (e.g. next) and/or due date and/or actionable tag (e.g. a4d)
Use Smart Lists for Narrowing Focus
All Projects = tag:project
All Tasks = not tag:project
Classify = list:Inbox or
(isLocated:false and not tag:project) or
(due:never and not (tagContains:p- or
tag:next or tag:wait or tag:someday or
tagContains:a1 or tagContains:a2 or
tagContains:a3 or tagContains:a4)) or
((tag:next and tag:wait) or (tag:wait and tag:someday)
or (tag:next and tag:someday)) or
(tag:next and (tagContains:a1 or tagContains:a2 or
tagContains:a3 or tagContains:a4))
(N.B. This list is used to capture tasks that have yet to be classified or are incorrectly classified)
Completed = status:completed
Due Today = dueBefore:tomorrow
Due Tomorrow = due:tomorrow
Due Week = dueBefore:monday
Due Week Next = due:monday or (dueAfter:monday and dueBefore:"next monday")
Next = tag:next or dueBefore:tomorrow or
(tag:a1d and dueWithin:"1 day of tomorrow") or
(tag:a2d and dueWithin:"2 days of tomorrow") or
(tag:a3d and dueWithin:"3 days of tomorrow") or
(tag:a4d and dueWithin:"4 days of tomorrow") or
(tag:a1w and dueWithin:"1 week of tomorrow") or
(tag:a2w and dueWithin:"2 weeks of tomorrow") or
(tag:a3w and dueWithin:"3 weeks of tomorrow") or
(tag:a4w and dueWithin:"4 weeks of tomorrow") or
(tag:a1m and dueWithin:"1 month of tomorrow") or
(tag:a2m and dueWithin:"2 months of tomorrow") or
(tag:a3m and dueWithin:"3 months of tomorrow") or
(tag:a4m and dueWithin:"4 months of tomorrow") or
(tag:a1d and due:never and not addedWithin:"1 day of today") or
(tag:a2d and due:never and not addedWithin:"2 days of today") or
(tag:a3d and due:never and not addedWithin:"3 days of today") or
(tag:a4d and due:never and not addedWithin:"4 days of today") or
(tag:a1w and due:never and not addedWithin:"1 week of today") or
(tag:a2w and due:never and not addedWithin:"2 weeks of today") or
(tag:a3w and due:never and not addedWithin:"3 weeks of today") or
(tag:a4w and due:never and not addedWithin:"4 weeks of today") or
(tag:a1m and due:never and not addedWithin:"1 month of today") or
(tag:a2m and due:never and not addedWithin:"2 months of today") or
(tag:a3m and due:never and not addedWithin:"3 months of today") or
(tag:a4m and due:never and not addedWithin:"4 months of today")
Next - Personal = list:Next and not list:Work
Next - Work = list:Next and list:Work
Scheduled = not due:never and status:incomplete
(N.B. This list's iCalendar (Events) is subscribed to in Google Calendar)
Someday = tag:someday
Someday - Personal = list:Someday and not list:Work
Someday - Work = list:Someday and list:Work
Waiting = tag:wait
Waiting - Personal = list:Waiting and not list:Work
Waiting - Work = list:Waiting and list:Work
@Context = list:Next and location:context
(N.B. There is an instance of this list for every context)
Use “A Bit Better RTM”
With the number of lists this approach creates, the "A Bit Better RTM" script is essential to put the lists on the left and to hide certain lists.
Hidden Lists:
Hide always - Inbox, Sent, Next, Scheduled, Someday, Waiting
Hide at office - @Home, Family, Friends, Money, Personal,
Next - Personal, Someday - Personal, Waiting - Personal
Hide at home - @Office, Work, Next - Work, Someday - Work, Waiting - Work Posted at 2:38pm on June 24, 2012 |
