Future NAs - how to avoid looking at them?

[DoingIt]

Say, I have a NA that will be done in four months time. If I enter it in a NA list, it means that I will invariably look at it every day and every week when I do the daily and weekly reviews respectively. How do you tackle such a problem, given that one may have many such future NAs to handle?

 

[Max]

Depends on your tools

It all depends on the tools you are using to implement GTD.

If you use Outlook, LB, Bonsai, etc you can create a filter on the date field.

If you have a paper system, you could put it in your tickler file.

 

[DoingIt]

Thank you. I think I can adapt your suggestion to my system.

 

[sonia_simone]

Good use for tickler or calendar

Say, I have a NA that will be done in four months time. If I enter it in a NA list, it means that I will invariably look at it every day and every week when I do the daily and weekly reviews respectively. How do you tackle such a problem, given that one may have many such future NAs to handle?

When I have these, I simply put "Add XYZ on my NA list" on that day in Outlook. Nice and simple.

 

[apinaud]

Say, I have a NA that will be done in four months time. If I enter it in a NA list, it means that I will invariably look at it every day and every week when I do the daily and weekly reviews respectively. How do you tackle such a problem, given that one may have many such future NAs to handle?

For me there are 2 ways...

If the project is waiting for that N/A, therefore in hold for 9 months, I move the project to SM and add a note in my tickler file 2 or 3 days before...

If the project is moving or will be moving for the next months, I keep my project active and trow a note in my tickler file...

In conclusion, the future NA will be moved to my tickler file since will not happened soon enough to keep track of that.