FV and FVP Forum > Age of oldest entry
Yes, this has been one of the most surprising and most exciting FV features for me. My oldest items are about 3 weeks old. And as time goes on, the age of the oldest item seems to get smaller and smaller. It will be interesting to see where it levels out.
With previous systems, my oldest items would typically be 3+ months old -- together with a backlog of dismissed items going back 6-9 months or more. Sometimes I would mass-delete those old dismissed items, but sometimes I would find some real nuggets in there that finally seemed ready to do.
With previous systems, my oldest items would typically be 3+ months old -- together with a backlog of dismissed items going back 6-9 months or more. Sometimes I would mass-delete those old dismissed items, but sometimes I would find some real nuggets in there that finally seemed ready to do.
April 25, 2012 at 23:51 |
Seraphim
Seraphim
My oldest index card is dated November 17, 2011. That's when I first tried to implement SuperFocus, before switching to my own AutoFocus variant, then FV and now "Prioritized FV" as it were. I've done very few chains yet because I keep spending hours working on tasks in my preselected list -- I think I need to focus on more "little and often" to finish more chains so I can get things moving better...
April 26, 2012 at 17:27 |
Deven
Deven
2 items from Jan, 1 from Feb, then a bunch from mid-March (when I walked around outside with a list).
That's impressive, because I imported 20 items from an old list and kept the old, pre-January (some 2 years old!) dates. Only 2 of those 12 were recopied with no visible work being done. One will be combined with a routine task in a few days (adding maybe 10 minutes to the job), and the other couldn't be done because the kids were home. It's also impressive because I restrict myself to one ancient task a day. No matter how important some of the later tasks were, finally making progress on that old list was exciting. I didn't want to do anything before that job that's bugged me for two years!
I suspect the average age will vary widely with me. I tend to add several high-resistance lines at a time, then go a few weeks adding very little.
That's impressive, because I imported 20 items from an old list and kept the old, pre-January (some 2 years old!) dates. Only 2 of those 12 were recopied with no visible work being done. One will be combined with a routine task in a few days (adding maybe 10 minutes to the job), and the other couldn't be done because the kids were home. It's also impressive because I restrict myself to one ancient task a day. No matter how important some of the later tasks were, finally making progress on that old list was exciting. I didn't want to do anything before that job that's bugged me for two years!
I suspect the average age will vary widely with me. I tend to add several high-resistance lines at a time, then go a few weeks adding very little.
April 27, 2012 at 0:23 |
Cricket
Cricket
With other systems, things would hang on and hang on, get dismissed, hang out there, etc. Now things are either done, calendared or someday/maybe'd (I turned my old dismissed list into a someday/maybe list), or deleted, and that happens pretty quickly.