Not for me.Someday/Maybe did eventually end up broken down into a BBUNCH of separate lists butthey are roughyl bu=y AOF's not contexts. S/M is projects not actions. Context is only relevant to me for actions.I would assume yes, but I just kinda want to check and confirm
That's may be a good idea for me. I have a lot of smb stuff in OF It is great on one hand because I can review them easely. On another hand as I review them weekly I wonder if I may externalize these list in Evernote (my reference software with google drive)Someday/Maybe for me is just stuff, like the inbox. I might add information like a project or add a context if I feel like it, but regardless unless it is active to me it is just stuff.
Some examples:
Because I am using software tools (Nirvana and OneNote) it is easy to move items from being active to inactive(someday/maybe) during my weekly review. I have a someday/maybe notebook in OneNote for ideas and stuff that is way out there and might never get done. In Nirvana I move items to someday and projects to inactive to make them temporarily not show up in next actions so that I am more focused on items of higher importance.
- consider taking a trip to Ireland
- when does the water heater need replacing
- Buy a new car. (this was a full on project with reference materials, completed actions and much decision making done, but I decided that now was not the time so I put the project in someday/maybe.
My thought is that anything simple, one sentence, can stay in my GTD tool. But OneNote or Evernote is the place for any complex information.That's may be a good idea for me. I have a lot of smb stuff in OF It is great on one hand because I can review them easely. On another hand as I review them weekly I wonder if I may externalize these list in Evernote (my reference software with google drive)
I handle this in OmniFocus by having a "list" context that is set to Inactive, using it for every Someday/Maybe item, and putting my Someday/Maybe stuff in a separate folder structure. (In fact, I only really use nested folders for Someday/Maybe.) That way it's handy for easy review, but I can easily hide it all by hiding that context.That's may be a good idea for me. I have a lot of smb stuff in OF It is great on one hand because I can review them easely. On another hand as I review them weekly I wonder if I may externalize these list in Evernote (my reference software with google drive)
Hello @Gardener I am trying to settle correctly the someday in OF/I handle this in OmniFocus by having a "list" context that is set to Inactive, using it for every Someday/Maybe item, and putting my Someday/Maybe stuff in a separate folder structure. (In fact, I only really use nested folders for Someday/Maybe.) That way it's handy for easy review, but I can easily hide it all by hiding that context.
Edited to add: And you can set the review frequency of a project to less than weekly. My Someday/Maybe projects are mostly set to review every three months.
I do set start dates on some tasks inside active projects, but I don't think of those as Someday/Maybe in the same way. To me, Someday/Maybe is only the stuff in the Someday/Maybe folder, and it all has an inactive context. The start dates....well, sometimes they. have a logical reason, like I can't start something until I get something in the mail or I talk to someone or the weather changes, so they're really Waiting For. And sometimes they're a sort of waiting area to see if a project is going to stay active or be Someday/Maybe--if I've activated too much stuff, I'll put start dates on some to put them off, but if I've done that to the same project a few times, it's time to disassemble it and put it into Someday/Maybe.Do you use this someday may be task for task inside yours projects ?
How ? and for what ?
I found that once I got pst 4-500 someday.maybe things they cluttered up my Omnifocus system and made reviews painful. So for me it was vital I move them out of OF and I made hard edges between current active projects and when I reviewedmy large population of somdeay/maybe projects. I'm actually down a lot, I did a major restructuring and culling of S/M and am down to less than 1000 projects.I have a lot of smb stuff in OF It is great on one hand because I can review them easely. On another hand as I review them weekly I wonder if I may externalize these list in Evernote