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Some things – recording a new video tutorial for Perch for example – follow a set series of tasks and so are Sequential. I also use Single Action Lists for article, blog post or presentation ideas that I have thought of but haven’t yet decided on the research needed to write these.įor real Projects whether they are set up as Parallel or Sequential just depends on the type of Project. When I think of things I want to get when I walk into town I add it to a Single Action List for “Shopping: Town Centre”. I use Single Action Lists for things like shopping lists, there are various places I visit locally, the town centre for example or a major supermarket. Single Action List – a special type of project consisting of individual actions.Sequential – the actions need to be completed in a set order.Parallel – the actions can be completed in any order.When creating or editing a Project you can set it to be OmniFocus gives you three ways to represent your Projects, which gives a good degree of flexibility and a method of storing related things that really do only have one action. In GTD-speak a Project is anything that requires more than one action to complete. It creates a false dichotomy and adds to the feeling that you are doing the wrong thing if you do a personal task in “work time” or a work task in supposed “personal time”. Even if you go to an external office, if you are running your own business and have control over your time it often makes no sense to split things into work and not-work. It makes no sense to me to split my to do list into work things and non-work things. I used to have a Computer – online, Computer – anywhere context however other than when I’m on an airplane I am usually not far from an internet connection. I try and keep contexts relating to where I need to be to perform the action, and to have as few as possible. GTD – a meta context for tasks relating to my system.Someday / Maybe – a bucket for ideas, things I might do at some point.People – stuff relating to other people that I need to keep track of.

Home – stuff round the house, not computer related.Office – if I need to be physically located in the office (for example recording a screencast).Computer – anything I need a computer for but could be completed anywhere.If I’m doing a big collecting session I might create a big list but then I quickly give things a Context and Project. I tend not to leave things in the OmniFocus inbox for long. Whether it is something I need to buy next time I venture out to the shops, a race I want to read about to see if I want to enter, a blog article title that just popped into my head or a major project such as the relaunch of our Perch Forums. I stick everything and anything into OmniFocus. If not here are the basic steps and the book is well worth a read. I’m going to assume you know a bit about Getting Things Done as a methodology already. I get a lot done, and this post is about how I organise my life, leaning heavily on the Getting Things Done ( GTD) methodology and OmniFocus for the Mac, iPhone and iPad. I’m also a mother, something of a fitness fanatic, a family historian and I try not to let my house fall into chaos while I’m doing everything else that needs to be done. In addition to Perch, I write books and articles and speak at conferences.

I work from home running my own business, I’ve been running a business since 2001 – we did have an office for a few years but once we stopped taking on client projects to focus on Perch full-time, the office made little sense.

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