How do you copy a project with tasks and subtasks?

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carlostillman

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How do you copy a project with tasks and subtasks?

I what to take a project like:
Project - Write a Book on Cooking
Task - Write book
Task - Edit book
Task - Publish book

And be able to copy the project and all it's task to be:
Project - Write a book on Sewing
Project - Write a book on Swimnimg
Project - Write a book on Boating

Is there a way to do this?
 
carlostillman;72771 said:
How do you copy a project with tasks and subtasks?
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What tool are you using?

On paper I'd just write a new set, in my tool of choice Omnifocus, I just enter in command D to duplicate and edit the title. What's hard about what you are using?
 
I think what Oogiem means is what medium/tools you are using for Getting Things Done.

Are they:
- paper and pen?
- laptop/computer with windows?microsoft office?
- laptop/computer with mac os?omnifocus?
- PDA/smartphone with list program?
- voice recorder?
- hipster PDA? index cards?
- whiteboard with wet marker?
- video recorder?
- you write on your skin? your shirt? your napkin?
- your girl/boy friends?
- .......etc:mrgreen:
 
It's been a long time since I used Outlook, but I seem to remember it had a "Duplicate" command. If I'm not just making that up, that's what I'd use.

Katherine
 
yup Katherine, we can copy and paste in outlook.

but i find that outlook task lacks complex detail planning. alot of task will make the view look clutter and hard to see. i dont like to use too much category either. because it will also clutter the category view.

so, in the end, i use it as my all day task (for hard landscape actions). it works ok as it will appear on my calendar on given date and i can check it off when it is done.

then again, i find that keying in the next action itself into the calender actually works better. although i cant check it off as done. i can only erase it (which i rarely do).

currently trying out mylifeorganized, today is the 2nd day i am trying. so far works ok. i still have 43 days to try it out before putting my money on their table. :)
 
It could just be your example, and you could just be simplifying it, but what you have there are higher level items than projects.

I'm not an author, but "Achieve sales of at least X copies of my new book on sewing" is to me a goal. The projects would be lower level. I'm guessing the projects would be things like "Complete and sign-off skeleton plan with my editor", "Complete cover design", "Complete research on the history of the needle" and "Plan book signing tour with publisher". There would be plenty more. Each of those will have a next action and I'm guessing a project plan. My instinct would be to use a mind map for all the plans.

For Goals / projects of this scale, most of the "detail" you say is missing from Outlook should be kept in project support materials - i.e. not in Outlook.
 
carlostillman;72779 said:
Using Getting Things Done
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GTD is a methodology and a process not a tool. The tool is something like the actual things you use to keep your lists. For me it's calendar in iCal, lists in Omnifocus, paper folders and electronic folders all on my mac.
 
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