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How to manage mid-term todos in Gootodo
From a Gootodo user...
Feedback: Love it ... I'm much more productive with a 'zero' inbox and couldn't do it effectively with gootodo. I also love being able to type a 'todo' as an e-mail in my Blackberry and have it captured for later consumption in a user-friendly way.Question: What guidance do you give people around how to manage mid-term deliverables? (e.g. I have something I need to finish by a week from now. If I have bandwidth within a given day, I'd work on it, but no need to necessarily touch it that day.) If I put a number of these in my 'today' to-dos, I get a muddled to-do list, not much better than a crowded inbox. If I leave it as a to-do for the actual due date, I don't necessarily see it as something I've got coming in the future unless I cheat ahead, which seems inefficient. Is there a way to segregate a list within a given day of immediate to-dos vs future to-dos, but still see them all?
My response...
Appreciate your kind words on the tool! As for your question... I definitely wouldn't redate it for the due date of the todo (I think due dates are way overrated in todo list tools out there - I mostly ignore them)... instead, I'd redate the todo for the first day you need to start working on it.Today's list, then, should be all the todos that you need to work on TODAY, at least a little bit. If you've advanced a given todo enough for the day, redate it to tomorrow to pick it up again to do more work on it.
If you want to prioritize and/or segregate what you're looking at in the list, drag-and-drop the most important todos to the top of the list, and the less important ones to the bottom of today's list.
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I just drag them to the bottom of the list. It would be nice to have groups of things, or just a line to put low priority things under. I have things I want to do every day, but it's OK if I miss occasionally (I just want to be reminded of it each time I check Gootodo), those could go down there too.
I actually do the same as Reed does. Drag the whole lot to the bottom of the list. Seems to work just fine... :)
Get a huge whiteboard and put it somewhere in view. Write long term targets further away and work your way up. This is what I do anyway.