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FV and FVP Forum > FVP with planning of contexts and projects

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.
May 28, 2015 at 15:54 | Unregistered Commenternuntym
Interesting idea, I will give this a try.

And this I can use right now: use /slashes/ for projects. I've been using [brackets] but /slashes/ are so much faster to write! :-)
May 29, 2015 at 15:53 | Registered CommenterSeraphim