How to group/hierarchy/prioritise using super and subtasking

[Lewis Dexter Litanzios / ldexterldesign]

Hey,

I've been using GQueues + GTD almost daily for >3yrs now

On the whole very happy with how I've cultivated my system and all the GQueues bastardisations I've put in place

However, for about the same amount of time [3yrs] I've been battling with scope and the chore of refactoring large [project] tasks into more atomic, bite sized, tasks (can you tell I'm a web developer) ~ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/gqueues/aZOvajEU7XE/R5lMvUduOQwJ

Fed up with my inconsistencies I wrote up some guidelines today:

# GQueues

## Super/subtasking (i.e. indenting/nesting)

Indent/nest subtasks (children) within their supertask (parent) to group:
- Buy shopping
  - Buy shopping -- street
  - Buy shopping -- online
  - Buy shopping -- foo
  - Buy shopping -- bar

... and/or codify hierarchy:
- Buy shopping -- street
  - Buy shopping -- online
    - Buy shopping -- foo
      - Buy shopping -- bar (bar must happen before foo)


Avoid indenting/nesting >3 levels deep by refactoring (supertasking) and use numeral prefixes (e.g. 01, 02) to denote hierarchy instead of indentation/nesting:
- Buy shopping -- street
  - Buy shopping -- online
    - 01 Buy shopping -- foo
    - 02 Buy shopping -- bar


Avoid ambiguity if possible (i.e. "Buy shopping")
- Buy shopping 2014/11/01
  - Buy shopping -- online 2014/11/15

... better, then allows us to complete atomic tasks:
- Buy shopping -- street 2014/11/01
- Buy shopping -- online 2014/11/15


Undated subtasks are assumed to share their supertask's date due date/deadline:
Buy shopping 2014/11/01
  Buy shopping -- online
  Buy shopping -- street

I hope they're useful to some of you, and if you have any feedback I'd love to hear how you're addressing the same problem/s

Regards,

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ldexterldesign

Lewis Dexter Litanzios

Web Designer & Developer

+44 7504 907 304

[Lewis Dexter Litanzios]

Correction:

"Undated subtasks are assumed to share their supertask's due date/deadline"

Apologies,

[Cameron (GQueues Team)]

Awesome, Lewis!  Thanks for sharing this with the community! -Cameron

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