No, I don't want to be reminded about Someday/Maybe Projects. I may activate them during my Weekly Review. On the other hand Tickler File items self activate on a given date. Someday/Maybe items are passive, Tickler File items are active....For both they are possibly future projects or ideas that you want to be reminded of. So why make the distinction? Thanks
Impressive!These are all good answers, but let me give some examples:
April 1st: Taxes done? Tickler
Trip to the Galapagos? Someday/maybe
Make restaurant reservations before play next weekend? Tickler
Order N95 masks in case there’s a pandemic? Someday/maybe
Grab birthday present for Dad off top shelf and wrap? Tickler
Buy $4000 bottle of scotch? Someday/Maybe
Ticklers are things you want to know, do, or consider at a definite timepoint.
They may be part of a project or associated with an event.
Someday/Maybe‘s carry no commitment, except to maybe consider them
someday if they maybe catch your eye during a weekly review. Almost by definition,
they cannot be considered crucial by you at the time you recorded them.
"Small" concerns, hard edges, and under control . . . i like it . . . thank you!Tickler = a specific date in the future when you want something to pop up to remind or trigger you about something. E.g. “September 14th 2020: review whether to start project X”?
Someday Maybe = no dates assumed. Anything on this list just sits there, and you look at these options in your weekly review, asking yourself “do I want to start any of these”?
So, the former is for when you want a reminder about this incubating item to pop up (usually on a calendar) and “get in your face”; the latter just sits there quietly, week in and week out, on a list.
How about calendar? I am talking about the digital age not real Tickler. I sometimes, get stuck between Calendar-Tickeler-Someday/Maybe. I feel that Tickler is in middle between the Calendar and Someday/Maybe. Can you elaborate?Tickler = a specific date in the future when you want something to pop up to remind or trigger you about something. E.g. “September 14th 2020: review whether to start project X”?
Someday Maybe = no dates assumed. Anything on this list just sits there, and you look at these options in your weekly review, asking yourself “do I want to start any of these”?
So, the former is for when you want a reminder about this incubating item to pop up (usually on a calendar) and “get in your face”; the latter just sits there quietly, week in and week out, on a list.
Calendar for me is ONLY for 2 things, my history of what I actually did and the specific day/time appointments coming up. I fill out my calendar with what I did during the day so I have a historical record off what I worked on. Calendar is also a place for time and day specific items that cannot be rescheduled easily. A doctor's apt. for example or a slaughter date for the sheep. One key for me is that things in the future on my calendar are both Day and Time specific. For example the sheep have to be at the processing facility at 7:00am.How about calendar? I am talking about the digital age not real Tickler. I sometimes, get stuck between Calendar-Tickeler-Someday/Maybe. I feel that Tickler is in middle between the Calendar and Someday/Maybe. Can you elaborate?
Someday/Maybe is for all the things I may want to do sometime, things I cannot do now due to the season or other resource missing (time $ etc.) and things I want absolutely will do eventually but just not now.
I don't always review all someday/maybe lists in every weekly review. I keep Someday/Maybe separate from my task manager specifically because it's much faster for me to read straight text and many of those lists do not need to be reviewed weekly. I just timed myself and if I read all 70 separate S/M lists with the roughly 1600 items on those lists it takes me about 10 minutes. It took me 12 but I found some thigns that I had already finished so I deleted them as I was reading and I thought of a few tings that I had to add so I did.If we take season as example, why not on tickler until good season ? That's way you don't have to review it during WR.
Would "Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer" files in Tickler be worthy?I don't always review all someday/maybe lists in every weekly review. I keep Someday/Maybe separate from my task manager specifically because it's much faster for me to read straight text and many of those lists do not need to be reviewed weekly. I just timed myself and if I read all 70 separate S/M lists with the roughly 1600 items on those lists it takes me about 10 minutes. It took me 12 but I found some thigns that I had already finished so I deleted them as I was reading and I thought of a few tings that I had to add so I did.
Examples: I have 9 separate book reading lists, separated by category or author. Until I'm ready to read a new book I have no need to look at them. I have 6 separate travel lists or next time in type of lists. With COVID-19 I'm not going anywhere so no need to look at them either.
I don't use a tickler for seasonal things because when I had those things in my task manager it became unwieldy and hard to update. I already typically have 250-300 projects active at once I don't want to add more things to that list when I don't need to. I much prefer to review each season at my quarterly reviews, add those things we actually plan to do in that season and leave the rest that could be done in that season outside my task manager.
Not for me. Tickler is much more absolutely sure that it needs to get looked at on a specific day. It's much more finely grained with specific days to check things. Seasonal things really only need to get looked at during my quarterly reviews at the solstices and equinoxes.Would "Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer" files in Tickler be worthy?