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For some of us accustomed to using the seven habits, one way of categorizing tasks is in four following categories:
"urgent and important",
"urgent but not important",
"not urgent but important",
"not urgent and not important".
I find this a strategic overview tool useful in providing an "Big" picture view.
In RTM, I have setup four tags, namely
Urgent
Important
Not Urgent
Not Important.
When I enter a task using smartadd, I usually tag tasks with one of the four possible combinations, thereby allowing me to pull up tasks by taglists.
Just one of the many possible ways to finetune RTM.
Posted at 11:31pm on September 9, 2009
says:seems to me that this could require a lot of tag maintenance, in that what is important is always important, but what is urgent changes from day to day. I prefer to use priorities to designate importance, and due dates/times to indicate urgency. something due in two weeks isn't urgent when I enter it, but as the due date nears it becomes more and more urgent if I haven't already done it just because it was important.
Also, if you are going to use tags for these, wouldn't you only need IMPORTANT and URGENT. Anything not tagged IMPORTANT is by default NOT IMPORTANT. Same with URGENT.
Posted at 10:57am on September 10, 2009
says:I think you'd want to tag things with all four so that you could then have a check list that hunted for things that were not tagged properly.
Posted at 2:44pm on September 10, 2009
says:(I don't mean to suggest any individual item would have four, as that would be nuts; I just meant I think you would want your system to use all four.)
Posted at 4:06pm on September 10, 2009
I have found that for my purposes, this really doesn't require any more maintenance than any other tagging/organizing method. Just the way I set it up I suppose.
Gives me a great overview of stuff. I use priorities as well, seems to work well in conjunction.
You are correct in assuming that you could set it up with only two tags, namely IMPORTANT and URGENT, the rest by default being neither of these. I did have it set that way and now am trying this method.
My next iteration in implementing this will involve combining tags and actually using the following tags:
urgent and important",
"urgent but not important",
"not urgent but important",
"not urgent and not important".
Lets see how that works, thanks for the feedback.
Posted at 7:11pm on September 10, 2009
zak, I reccomend not combining tags. Instead, create a smart list to search for both the tags (or the absence of them)!
Also, I like Ranbarton's idea of tagging everything. I really enjoy having a "cleanup" list that searches if something isnt appropiately tagged or dated. It helps a lot to make sure you dont forget something (since when I note something down I dont remember it anymore, I need to make sure it will tell me to do it on time!).
Posted at 6:37pm on September 11, 2009
