![]() „Laptop online“ tasks to the „Focus“ list. Then you work on your „Focus“ list tasks until the list is empty. „Laptop online“ to a „Focus“ list category. ![]() „Laptop online“ list.ĭuring Weekly Review decide what is someday/maybe and what e.g. During Weekly Review or depending on how quick you are a Daily Review move more someday/maybe tasks to your e.g. Do not put more than about 40 to your context e.g. I strongly desire you not having too many tasks in one context, because then it takes longer and longer to figure out the currently important ones. I am in a similar case like you (working from home) and could do most of my stuff from my laptop. They were saying based on their experience having more than about 40 tasks in a context overwhelms a lot of people. Too many tasks in one context Just listend to a GTD Connect podcast. In my case that was with Office 2013 on Windows. But be careful, when you have too many tasks generated from OneNote performance may go down significantly. OneNote generated Tasks in Outlook I‘ve been there before. Keeping work and private separate is in my opinion the correct solution in your case. Right now I’m using a combination of categories in outlook tasks and reviewing projects plan pages in onenote. I don’t think contextualizing by case makes sense because so many contexts will just have one next action, the contexts themselves will become a non-action based to do list.īut at the same time, I do need a way to pull in all actions (next actions, someday/maybe) related to one case together. Separating by type of task (researching, writing, meeting) doesn’t seem to fit because it’s too easy to ignore a context I don’t enjoy or that always feels less urgent-a project might get stuck at research because I’m always focused on the writing that has to get out the door.ĭoes anyone separate by deep / shallow focus? Most of my work is deep focus (I work mostly on appeals, so researching and brief writing about about 80% of my job), so that list will probably be long. Calls almost always have to be done at the computer for access to my reference materials and to avoid duplicating note taking (retyping would waste time and paper note systems haven’t worked in the past). Especially with working from home / minimizing printing, almost 100% of my work is computer work. My biggest struggle right now is figuring out contexts. Cases that don’t have open items are filed in a separate section group. Other case reference material is on separate pages or, for major cases, in a separate section from projects. Onenote is set up with cases as sections (or section groups depending on how big the case/my involvement is), and projects have a page + subpages as necessary. I’m thinking projects would be discreet tasks - “obtain summary judgment” or “defeat summary judgment” with actions including research, meeting, outlining, drafting the motion, all the way through the hearing. For context, I’m a litigation associate in big law.įor work, I’m using a combination of Outlook and Onenote. Home is easy, but fitting the system and work is harder. I have to keep personal/work separate because of confidentiality / systems issues (and I don’t want to lose all my personal system if/when I change jobs). I’m reading through the GTD book and working on setting up my systems but struggling with how to make adjustments necessary to make it work for me.
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