GTD with OneNote: Organise
Thursday, April 5, 2007
This is the 4th part of my GTD with OneNote series - see Parts 1 set up, 2 Collect, 3 Process.
By this stage I have all my actionable items tagged, either by context or as a project. Each project is hyperlinked from the Today page so I then work through this page to review each one in turn.
Each Project has its own page in OneNote and it's here I can brainstorm and plan how I will achieve the successful completion of the project. Once the steps I need to take have been clarified I can tag the next action needed with the appropriate context. This helps keep all next actions linked to a project and also allows me to be sure that all projects have a next action. I can then repeat this for each new project I have a hyperlink for on the Today page.
At the end of the day once organising is finished I move the Today page to the Current Month Section in OneNote.
I can now use the power of OneNote's tags to check on all my next actions and projects.
By grouping by tag name I can see a list of next actions by context and a list of current projects.
By grouping by Title I have a list of all my Projects with their next actions listed within each project, again a nice way of linking NAs to Projects.
5 comments:
Paul, thanks for your interest. Yes - i will try and put some screen shots up in the next day or so
I kept waiting to hear you say how you would use "THIS MONTH" and "MONTHLY ARCHIVE".
Is that just a place to move your daily "pages" for long-term keeping? Or do you put future/someday items into THIS MONTH?
kidplug - I just use it as an archive
Very interesting article, Rob. I decided to give this approach a try and got a question.
When there are several actions for the project, do you tag only the next action (not to clutter the search results) or all of the project actions?
Can you share some screen shots?