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A little follow up to my question about using and loving No-List FVP, while accommodating those times in the day when I get several new tasks for today in a row (either from my head or from a meeting). Here's what I stumbled on today, and it worked well.
I used No-List FVP successfully all morning as usual, using the new shorthand question I learned from this forum, "But first..?". Then I attended a meeting where I agreed to 5 new tasks. I wrote them down in the next blank lines directly under my mostly-crossed off No-List items.
Then it just hit me. I switched to Fast FVP, using the same question "But first..?" to work the list. I simply dotted the first unchecked item on my list, which was the first of the two unchecked No-List items that were there from before the meeting. Then I built a short dot chain that included a couple items from the new 5. I continued until I had knocked off everything on the list. Then I switched back to No-List FVP, and added the next thing I wanted to do some work on.
Next I'm going to try it with the Little and Often rewriting technique, which I had been avoiding in No-List because it puts items at the bottom of the list that I didn't want to work on next.
So it'll be No-List to give me all the goodness of no procrastination through minimized rejection, with no backlog that grows day to day, and a long list of DONE at the end of the day, combined with switching to Fast FVP when the incoming tasks happen in bursts.
I used No-List FVP successfully all morning as usual, using the new shorthand question I learned from this forum, "But first..?". Then I attended a meeting where I agreed to 5 new tasks. I wrote them down in the next blank lines directly under my mostly-crossed off No-List items.
Then it just hit me. I switched to Fast FVP, using the same question "But first..?" to work the list. I simply dotted the first unchecked item on my list, which was the first of the two unchecked No-List items that were there from before the meeting. Then I built a short dot chain that included a couple items from the new 5. I continued until I had knocked off everything on the list. Then I switched back to No-List FVP, and added the next thing I wanted to do some work on.
Next I'm going to try it with the Little and Often rewriting technique, which I had been avoiding in No-List because it puts items at the bottom of the list that I didn't want to work on next.
So it'll be No-List to give me all the goodness of no procrastination through minimized rejection, with no backlog that grows day to day, and a long list of DONE at the end of the day, combined with switching to Fast FVP when the incoming tasks happen in bursts.
January 6, 2017 at 21:14 |
Scott Moehring
Scott Moehring
Great description of your success with No-List FVP.
"Where I struggle and haven't found a simple solution is for two related things:
1. Little and Often: I work on something and want to rewrite it on the list for later
2. Something needs to be done soon but not before the the current thing"
Those are two things I've also wanted a solution for. After reading your comment today I worked through some ways I might tackle these two issues. Here's what I came up with for issue 2.
Example:
Write Report
Blog Post
Make Tea
Calendar
Tidy Office
"Tidy Office" is the current task being worked on. I think of a new task that needs doing next, but not now: "Email". I write that to the right of my current task:
Write Report
Blog Post
Make Tea
Calendar
Tidy Office Email
After finishing "Tidy Office" I cross it out:
Write Report
Blog Post
Make Tea
Calendar
–T-i-d-y O-f-f-i-c-e– Email
Next, I work the No-List FVP rules as usual doing the task "Email" after first asking if there's anything I want to do before that. Since there's nothing I want to do before "Email", I do the task, then cross it out:
Write Report
Blog Post
Make Tea
Calendar
–T-i-d-y O-f-f-i-c-e– –E-m-a-i-l–
Next, I continue up to the task "Calendar" and work the list as usual:
Write Report
Blog Post
Make Tea
Calendar
–T-i-d-y O-f-f-i-c-e– –E-m-a-i-l–
I've tried writing recurring tasks into that second column in various ways but I've yet to find a simple method that integrates smoothly with the solution above. Any ideas anyone?