I wonder if anybody is doing simple projects and contexts in FVP like I do. It is influenced by how I have done such tasks in my other systems, specifically CAF4 and DECAF.
Tasks that I identify as part of a simple project or contexts are entered individually into my FVP list preceded by a project or context name. For example of contexts,
Call Roger re: tickets Call Sis re: picking up kids Call Michael re: mail pick-up
where "Call" are all tasks which (obviously) entail using a phone to call people. In the same vein, "Buy" and "Go to" are for errands, "Email" is obvious, and "Web" is for anything else relating to the internet. Project names I usually just enclose in slashes, like
/E-Leave/ fix passport /E-Leave/ buy tickets
So when a project or context task is selected in FVP as the task I want to do now, and yet I also want to do other same-context tasks, I:
> Rewrite that project/context task at the end of the list WITHOUT deleting the task from where it was originally > Scan the list for other in-context tasks > Rewrite those tasks at the end of the list and delete them > Join the rewritten tasks with a single bracket at the left > The bracketed tasks are then treated as a single task per rules of FPV > Delete the original task per rules of FPV
Please note that I do not join same project and context tasks indiscriminately. Rather, I join tasks that I judge that I can do all in one sitting or would make the accomplishment of the tasks easier. Also, I never have had more than one set of bracketed tasks at a time.
Usually I mark and do the bracketed tasks right away. Sometimes though I do not, and the problem becomes that sometimes when I get to doing those tasks I have to add some more to them. Fortunately I am using a rather wide notebook and I just write those additional tasks to the right side.
Tasks that I identify as part of a simple project or contexts are entered individually into my FVP list preceded by a project or context name. For example of contexts,
Call Roger re: tickets
Call Sis re: picking up kids
Call Michael re: mail pick-up
where "Call" are all tasks which (obviously) entail using a phone to call people. In the same vein, "Buy" and "Go to" are for errands, "Email" is obvious, and "Web" is for anything else relating to the internet. Project names I usually just enclose in slashes, like
/E-Leave/ fix passport
/E-Leave/ buy tickets
So when a project or context task is selected in FVP as the task I want to do now, and yet I also want to do other same-context tasks, I:
> Rewrite that project/context task at the end of the list WITHOUT deleting the task from where it was originally
> Scan the list for other in-context tasks
> Rewrite those tasks at the end of the list and delete them
> Join the rewritten tasks with a single bracket at the left
> The bracketed tasks are then treated as a single task per rules of FPV
> Delete the original task per rules of FPV
Please note that I do not join same project and context tasks indiscriminately. Rather, I join tasks that I judge that I can do all in one sitting or would make the accomplishment of the tasks easier. Also, I never have had more than one set of bracketed tasks at a time.
Usually I mark and do the bracketed tasks right away. Sometimes though I do not, and the problem becomes that sometimes when I get to doing those tasks I have to add some more to them. Fortunately I am using a rather wide notebook and I just write those additional tasks to the right side.