Hi! New GTD-er and member of this forum. Slowly doing my initial capture, and beginning setting up my projects. As a language/grammar/communication precision nerd, I find "Waiting For" interesting, and didn't find a concrete example of how to phrase them. Here's a good for-instance from my life today:
My wife has a sleep-tracking ring that she got from her mom and me for Christmas. Too small, not desired color or shape; we initiated a return. As it quite often happens, they're lagging at every step of the process. I got an email out from my MIL's email address (she was the one who clicked "buy") and also followed up with them on their Instagram acct., for visibility. Still waiting for them to respond.
I've got a project for the above ("Get sleep ring on my wife's finger, and tracking her sleep, writing it to her Apple Health data!"). Clearly defined, where done is unambiguous. But, the current step/task is simply to wait for them to return our inquiry. Do I phrase the task from their vantage point? "Oura to respond to my inquiries"? Or from mine? I've seen people advocate the latter, and have put the following currently in the project, tagged as "Waiting For" in OmniFocus: "Messaged/Emailed Oura on Feb. 23 with USPS tracking number." (Note: "On Feb. 24 they said they’d be in touch via the orig. email address used. Also said they’d be able to change the address in the IG msg. thread.")
Of course, there's prob. no right way… just wanting to see what you do!
My wife has a sleep-tracking ring that she got from her mom and me for Christmas. Too small, not desired color or shape; we initiated a return. As it quite often happens, they're lagging at every step of the process. I got an email out from my MIL's email address (she was the one who clicked "buy") and also followed up with them on their Instagram acct., for visibility. Still waiting for them to respond.
I've got a project for the above ("Get sleep ring on my wife's finger, and tracking her sleep, writing it to her Apple Health data!"). Clearly defined, where done is unambiguous. But, the current step/task is simply to wait for them to return our inquiry. Do I phrase the task from their vantage point? "Oura to respond to my inquiries"? Or from mine? I've seen people advocate the latter, and have put the following currently in the project, tagged as "Waiting For" in OmniFocus: "Messaged/Emailed Oura on Feb. 23 with USPS tracking number." (Note: "On Feb. 24 they said they’d be in touch via the orig. email address used. Also said they’d be able to change the address in the IG msg. thread.")
Of course, there's prob. no right way… just wanting to see what you do!