Comments on: How To Kill Your To Do List, Developer Style!

By: sebounet

sebounet — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:47:21 +0000

It's a very interresting way to do. I have some problems to organize myself corectly. Many things to to in a day, read rss reader, todo list etc
I will try this way. Thanks for the tips.

By: Guido Trueb

Guido Trueb — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:43:43 +0000

A must read post!

This will grow up the ‘throughput’ on my jobs, and really helps on organizing myself.

For shure I’ll read that book too.

Thanks for sharing this…

By: Rafa

Rafa — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:24:34 +0000

(Just noticed your screenshot is from Windows, so the following tip is for mac-only)

I recommend you to, instead of having those folders somewhere and then have an alias on the Desktop, have those folders directly on the Desktop. Then, in View > View Options (Command-J) check the option “Show Information”. You will see that, now, under the name of each folder, you will have a line saying “XX items”. This way, you will be able to see how many items you have inside each folder, without having to open it.

By: Miguel Carrasco

Miguel Carrasco — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 20:36:44 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, I’ll have to email Scott and see what he is using, unless he has it on his blog.

By: mantrid

mantrid — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:33:10 +0000

I’ve been using a similar thing for over 2 years but after reading this post I realized what I was missing. After reading a book about personal-time-management I created Todo list partitioned into similar 6 groups :
- 1. things important and urgent = the highest priority
- 2. things urgent but not that important = med priority, the goal is to avoid a situation in which some items are “hungered” because they are never important enough
- 3. things important but not urgent = like incubation
- 4. things not urgent and not that important = thing I may wish to get back to in a half a year
- 5. history = archive, especially stuff that I resigned of doing
- 6. queue = inbox

the problem is I am always doing stuff only from the 1. group. now I realized that time of realization of an item matters here. simple action-like but not urgent stuff always waits bacause I compell myself to have items of the 1. group completed first. but most of those tasks take long, so action-like items are anyway “hungered”.

I need to rethink it.. and come up with something that suites me better, thanks

By: h3nry

h3nry — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:40:31 +0000

Good tip… I really like the idea of having an “incubate” folder. Having the folders is a much visual way to prioritise the tasks.

By: Joel

Joel — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 06:44:46 +0000

You can also get an Outlook addin that works real well. Used it for a year or so. Since everything revolves around email in many organizations – the Outlook add-in works well. Scott Hanselman uses it as well I believe since it was he who I learned this from.

By: Miguel Carrasco

Miguel Carrasco — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:13:16 +0000

Glad you enjoyed it!

By: webister

webister — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:02:48 +0000

a helpfull post

By: Elmer Thomas

Elmer Thomas — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:44:47 +0000

Good post. Here is my current method: http://blog.thembid.com/index.php/2007/06/27/gtd-a-tech-ceos-journey/