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I second this recommendation with a suggestion that has hugely helped me. I have more or less copied the approach to to-do lists described in that book into a T
by slsii 8y ago
I second this recommendation with a suggestion that has hugely helped me. I have more or less copied the approach to to-do lists described in that book into a Trello board and then – importantly – made it my home page on Chrome.
This accomplishes two things for me:
1) any time I open a new tab, I get a reminder of what needs to be done
2) adding an item or recording an idea to be processed later is just a cmd-t away.
This approach (combined with the Trello mobile app) has made the list so easy to maintain it's almost hard not to use it. YMMV, of course.
- pqdbr 8y agoCould you provide a template for you trello board?
- ff_ 8y agoI'm also following a GTD-like approach (and I strongly second the recommendation on the book) My Trello board has the following columns: - MAYBE - for things that I'll maybe do - BACKLOG - for things that I decided I'll do at some point - WEEK - for things that I'll do this week (limit: 8 items) - TODAY - for things I'll do today (limit: 5 items) - DONE - move things here once done Once a week I do a review session where I clean the "DONE" column and reshuffle things in the other columns as needed
- SlowRobotAhead 8y agoHmm,I hadn’t thought of a week/day in Trello. It’s an interesting idea, but having a les productive week seems like it really screws things up by forcing moving back to Maybe and Backlog while you plan out your week. But i see a possible benifit in that. I wouldn’t do that to my collaborative work board, but for a personal board that seems interesting.
- sbov 8y agoHere's my setup, it's pretty similar to the other person's: Followup: stuff that I'm blocked on (e.g. maybe I'm waiting on someone, maybe I have to let something run for some time, etc) Doing: stuff I'm actively working on To Do: stuff I plan to do in the near term Inbox: everything starts here Backlog: stuff I want to eventually do Anything I finish I archive.
- cliffdover 8y agoI think this can be a very good start. Whenever I'm reminded of my tasks deadlines I'd work harder. Would also love to include different color signaling for deadlines...
- wj 8y agoI do the same with a personal dashboard that pulls in my "today" Asana tasks as my new tab homepage. Are you using the New Tab Redirect Chrome extension? It seems that you can set a homepage for when you open a browser natively with Chrome but not a new tab.
- goferito 8y agoI do the same! I even started a project so I can have Trello on the terminal to faster access and manage my tasks. If someone is interested on using/collaborating: https://github.com/goferito/termllo https://github.com/goferito/termllo