How to determine which task belongs to which project
This has been puzzling me more and more.
I am on the path of GTD & the Ratz examples.
I have a multitude of work and home related projects. I work as a consultant in a supportive role for about 30 projects. We have four children, several DIY projects, add some hobby's in, etc etc I guess you get the picture.
Because of GTD I try to break the projects always down into the next action. That gives a gazillion amount of tasks as you can image.
For several work related projects the actions are somewhat the same. Therefore I have created a hidden project with a three of actions that I need to execute for that specific project. Copy and paste and off I go. BUT here is my problem. While the actions are listed under various projects, once they are in the To do list, there is no sign of where the action belongs to. My solution so far is to add the projectname to each and every action. That is also a cut and paste and is a workaround. But maybe there are other/smarter ways to solve this.
This is a good question and
This is a good question and I'd be interested in the responses as well. I've had the same confusion on smaller tasks.
Which project does a task belong to
I have the same issue, I prefix many of my tasks with the initials of the project to get around this issue. It would be great to have some other way of indicating this, perhaps an extra field against each task that can optionally be displayed on the task list?
David
As a newbie, I just read the
As a newbie, I just read the whole manual and I remember it specifically advising that you identify the project in the name of every subtask for exactly this reason. They say the extra keystrokes will be worth in in clarity n your ToDo lists.
Bonnie
So that confirms my initial
So that confirms my initial work around. That would lead to a nifty feature request. An option to automate this would be to copy the parent text (or the first 10? characters) to any new subtask.
I use a tiny copy/paste utility for this (open source offcourse). It's called Clipomatic downloadable here --> http://www.mlin.net/Clipomatic.shtml
If your in to copy/paste enhancements do give it more the 5 minutes.
Thanks for the replies so far.
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