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Discussion Forum > Doing tasks v Desking tasks

I notice resistance when I switch between the 2, Somehow if I am doing x then doing y its easier to do z, rather than doing x desking a doing y desking b etc. So what I am going to trial this week is my new "Do vs Desk Designator": an orange circle, if truth be told ! on the lhs or rhs. This applies to the one-off task list in DIT so might not be of use if you are using a different system. Does anyone else think this might be useful of can you think of a better way
Mrs M (can hardly be Mrs MF!)
May 2, 2022 at 9:50 | Unregistered CommenterMrs Move Forward
Mrs M:

I'm having trouble understanding what you are proposing here. What does the orange circle do?
May 2, 2022 at 12:14 | Registered CommenterMark Forster
What is DESKING? Is it like Tabling?
May 2, 2022 at 12:38 | Registered CommenterAlan Baljeu
Alan:

I wondered that too, but in the end I decided it meant the same as "shelving", except that instead of putting the stuff you don't want to do on a shelf somewhere out of sight, you put it in a pile on your desk.
May 2, 2022 at 12:45 | Registered CommenterMark Forster
Desk tasks are anything I do at my desk. PC jobs, email, cards.
Doing jobs are nipping out for something, cooking, i,e more menial. Clearing a cupboard, hanging the washing anything like that
I find it easier to do one "desking" job after another, or one "doing" task after another
but switching from tax return to weeding to emailing a friend to putting a shelf up makes no sense at all, at least to me.
I need a marker so when I do SS I can see at a glance and if I am on a roll physically I keep going with that or on a roll at my desk I can keep going with that. placing a diffferent marker at the side of the task has helped this - I will keep going with that for a while and see how i get on.
May 8, 2022 at 9:44 | Unregistered CommenterMrs Move Forward
I’d be tempted to list them separately in the first place. Much easier to distinguish for the purposes of batch processing.
May 8, 2022 at 11:01 | Unregistered CommenterIanS