TiddlyWiki for ToDo managment: need tips + use cases and best practices

[IvanPsy]

Greetings,

My next step with TiddlyWiki is about ToDos: my goal is to ditch third Apps when possible, in order to have all in one place...but with care...

So I’m looking for use cases and best practices to get inspiration from.

Plus I need some help in:

- recurring todos: how do you manage them?

i.e.: I make the bill each month to the same Companies, each Company has its own format and workflow.

With Things 3, I set a recurrent monthly project per each Company, so each month the App shows me the todos chain related to the bill.

How do I may replicate it on TW?

- todos with a due date and a different deadline

i.e.: I have a work to be done.

Deadline: 31th December, but I plan the work on 15th December.

- several todos related to the same project, but with different deadlines

Any best practice to have different todos with different deadlines, but also to show the whole project and the chain of the todos?

Any thought or examples about them?

Thank you!

[TW Tones]

Ivan

Todos can be "bigger than Ben Hur".

One great method I discovered that requires a conceptual leap is use the list to find items not done for N days, rather than set a date into the future on the tiddler, and when done, eg weekly, stamp them with the current date and time. ie you only touch them when you action them, the listing dynamically determines their age (the days operator is relative to today). I tend to use dates for operational (today/tomorrow) Tactical (This week) and strategic (this month) and have a list for each, check each three daily, to make something monthly it give it a strategic-date field containing now, it will get listed next month. If you fail to do something it will remain in the strategic list until you do it. Using this method, say you want to do it in three months you can forward date it in two months and it will appear in the strategic list when its a month over (in three months).

I have used multiple dates to mange tags and project task tiddlers, I have separate dates for planning-start due and end in addition to started/cancelled and closed (and archived). The listings handle the logic not the dates in the tiddler, the view template just helps you set the dates for different reasons. A smart method for some tasks is to have a sunset date, if its not done by this date remove it from the list because its out of date.

I have not done a lot with chaining todo as it does not seem necessary too often, but you could have a dependency or pre-requisite list and a next tiddler lists containing titles of the tiddlers before or after. A custom new tiddler button on the current tiddler (via the viewTemplate) could create a new task as pre-requisite, parallel or following the current tiddler. 

The alt-tags plugin or listops features may be helpful for using additional tags sets,

The datepicker pickaday plugin is useful.

Watch you UTC settings

Ask for help as needed

Tones