1. I have a special view called "daily to-do list" which includes all
active tasks that are starred, active tasks with a completion goal whose
time since last modification exceeds the goal, active tasks with
importance=200, calls with importance over 100 but only during the hours
when the calls context is open, tasks with a "waiting" context whose
start date, if any, has arrived or passed, and lots of other
dwight-specific conditions. It's kind on an active actions list with
everything that I can predict I won't want to do today removed. It's
rare that a month passes without one or two tweaks to the daily to-do
list filter.
2. The way that I am using goals it would have very limited use for a
project. Completion Goals are only functional for a task that is active.
The project parent for an active project is almost always not considered
an active task because it has uncompleted children. At most, if some
project has a next action that has made it to my daily to-do list that I
do not want to allocate time to right now, I might give it a weekly
completion goal and remove whatever's pushing it into the Daily list.
Somehow I doubt that this has anything to do with your question. I
suspect that you are asking how I would assign a project like "Learn to
speak Twi" to a goal like "Stay well-read and knowledgable". The short
answer is that for me, tracking stuff like "Stay well read" costs more
time than it saves so I don't do it. It's good to have goals like that,
just not a good use of time to track them.
3. I'm not sure what an "actual context" is. To me, all of my contexts
are actual, whether they represent a time, a place, a person, a needed
tool, actionability or a mood. Most of my Someday tasks are in a hidden
Someday folder that's flagged for quarterly review. Sometimes if I don't
have time to move a task right now I will leave it in place and assign a
Someday context to keep it off the to-do list until I get around to
moving it. Some someday tasks cannot be moved because they are in a
project, perhaps with other tasks dependent on them. These retain the
someday context. (The Build a Shed project has a Someday task to go file
for a certificate of occupancy. The project's not really done till I
take care of it, but I am not in any rush and if I never get to it then
when my heirs sell my house their real estate agent will take care of
it.) Waiting is a context, most often used if I have something that
cannot be done until a future date but then should be done as soon as
possible, like checking if a package I sent was delivered.Tasks like
this generally do not have any other "actual" context. If some larger or
more complex undertaking includes a waiting component it will often have
a task for the waiting and other tasks with other contexts for what's to
happen when the waiting's over. A quick way to set that up is to create
a subtask for the wait. Suppose that I have a task with Yardwork context
(Yardwork has open and close times set to approx current sunrise and
sunset) to trim a bush and it is hanging around on my to-do list but I
can't trim it because it's still blooming. So I would have a task to
trim the bush with Yardwork context, and a subtask, check if the bush is
done blooming with Waiting context repeating every week on Sundays and
Tuesdays. When I see the "bush done" task on my list and its still
blooming, check complete (i.e. yes, I checked). If the bush id finished
blooming, delete the task (ie, don't need to check that any more) and
the "trim bush" task immediately pops onto the to-do list.
-Dwight
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