I think I finally got "on the wagon" and set up my system (I'm using
NoteCase, which is isomorphic to mind-mapping, but more convenient).
However when the weekly review time came around, I found that it takes
too long (1-2 hours if I concentrated, but because I subconsciously
find it useless, i.e. not real work, it actually takes much longer).
Any tips? How much time do you spend on your weekly review?
I have scheduled 1.5 hours for the review every Friday morning and I
have to admit, it sometimes takes longer. However, I consider it as
real work, as follow up actions come out of it or I can actually close
projects.
> but because I subconsciously
> find it useless, i.e. not real work, it actually takes much longer).
> Any tips? How much time do you spend on your weekly review?
A couple of hours... perhaps more. But more fundamentally, if you
haven't got the whole mind-shift toward GTD as incremental but steady
progress across all your projects then I not sure it'll fly for you.
If you've only a few projects you must get done in a speciic manner
then straight-forward project planning and Gantt-charting is probably
the way to go...
Try reading more about it slowly on sites that do encourage it.
Usually, the book provides a lot of insight for me only when I really
looked at the all the usefulness of it. Perhaps, you have some open
loops that you don't include and that leads you to think that the
weekly review is not working out for you?
What reasons would you say lead you to believe that the weekly review
is useless?
On Mar 18, 1:50 am, "fft1...@gmail.com" <fft1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think I finally got "on the wagon" and set up my system (I'm using
> NoteCase, which is isomorphic to mind-mapping, but more convenient).
> However when the weekly review time came around, I found that it takes
> too long (1-2 hours if I concentrated, but because I subconsciously
> find it useless, i.e. not real work, it actually takes much longer).
> Any tips? How much time do you spend on your weekly review?
I use OmniFocus on my Mac. There is the "planning" mode (aka project
mode), the "Do" mode (aka "Context" mode) and the "weekly review" mode
(aka "review" mode).
The review mode is the strongest function of OmniFocus and sets it
apart from the other GTD programs I've seen.
Each task and project has a "Next review" date. So when I switch to
review mode, it sorts all my projects and tasks by review date. I
usually look at anything that needs to be reviewed in the next week. I
don't really worry about things that are marked as "to be reviewed in
the next month."
When I am satisified or make changes to a task/project, I will click
"mark as reviewed." It will set the next review date to the next
cycle. I can set each task/project with a review interval. The next
review can be set to every week (the default), every XXX days, every
XXX months, etc..
If your weekly review gets large, you may have to set the review
interval to something like every 4 days instead of every 7 days. It's
up to you.
It's like my backyard. I have to trim the grass every couple weeks. If
I skip a month, the grass grows a lot and it takes more work to cut
the grass. But if I cut my grass more often, then it's not so bad.
It's the same with the weekly review. The longer you wait between
weekly reviews, the more overwhelming it gets.
Everyone will have to set their own review interval. Every 4 days,
every 5 days, whatever works for you.
On Mar 20, 10:27 am, Lit <rla...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Try reading more about it slowly on sites that do encourage it.
> Usually, the book provides a lot of insight for me only when I really
> looked at the all the usefulness of it. Perhaps, you have some open
> loops that you don't include and that leads you to think that the
> weekly review is not working out for you?
> What reasons would you say lead you to believe that the weekly review
> is useless?
> On Mar 18, 1:50 am, "fft1...@gmail.com" <fft1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think I finally got "on the wagon" and set up my system (I'm using
> > NoteCase, which is isomorphic to mind-mapping, but more convenient).
> > However when the weekly review time came around, I found that it takes
> > too long (1-2 hours if I concentrated, but because I subconsciously
> > find it useless, i.e. not real work, it actually takes much longer).
> > Any tips? How much time do you spend on your weekly review?
> Try reading more about it slowly on sites that do encourage it.
> Usually, the book provides a lot of insight for me only when I really
> looked at the all the usefulness of it. Perhaps, you have some open
> loops that you don't include and that leads you to think that the
> weekly review is not working out for you?
On Mar 19, 1:28 am, marcwomm <marcw...@123mail.org> wrote:
> I have scheduled 1.5 hours for the review every Friday morning and I
> have to admit, it sometimes takes longer. However, I consider it as
> real work, as follow up actions come out of it or I can actually close
> projects.
It took me an hour today, so maybe it's not so bad. The key was
probably going where there is no internet and setting the timer.
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