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Posted Nov 28, 2011 in: "Out of the blue" events/tasks
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It depends what you mean by cannot be deferred/scheduled.
I work from home. If the phone goes, I can decide not to answer it if I'm busy with something else. They can leave a message and I will deal with it when it suits me. Or, if I answer the phone, and in my judgment whatever I'm told is so urgent it needs immediate attention, then whatever I'm working on will have to wait. If that means that I am late or not fully prepared for my next meeting, so be it - I will phone ahead or apologise as necessary. I have also developed a line in telling people that I don't have time to give their issue right now, but I can see to it tomorrow/next week/whenever I think I can. My only rule is - I get to decide which is the higher priority - not the person who wants me to drop everything and deal with them right now. Barbara |
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Posted Nov 28, 2011 in: Time to Complete Tasks
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Hmm... I'm already using negative priority to indicate tasks which I'd like to get round to some time, so these older tasks really are things I have decided I need to do. I broadly follow the GTD method, so I only put a Due Date on tasks which have a hard deadline in real life.
I have been using Salgud's strategy... when all the things with a due date of today or tomorrow are done and I still have some time, I will do one of two things. Either complete a couple of quick and easy tasks ( not much effort, plenty of satisfaction), or tackle one of the tasks that's been waiting a long time to get done. My work involves a fair amount of time spent in meetings and events , and the rest of my time in my office preparing, planning and communicating. In a typical week, I will have somewhere between 10 and 20 hours available for the office-based stuff. And each week, an absolute minimum of 5 hours of new office work comes my way, more often 10 to 20. On average, I need to do as many hours work each week as come in, but I'd like to make sure I'm not only doing the new stuff and leaving older tasks to rot. I have to say that since I started using TD to support my efforts at GTD (in September), I have never missed a real-life deadline, and have also ticked off a few things that had been on my Sometime List for over a year..... Barbara |
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Posted Nov 24, 2011 in: Time to Complete Tasks
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Been using Toodledo a couple of months now, and am interested in analysing the way tasks ebb and flow. One thing I'd like to be able to work out is how long it typically takes between adding a task and completing it. I have a list of shame - a search which returns tasks that have been sat there uncompleted for over six weeks. And I know there are quiteba few tasks that get done within a few days.... But what's the average, or median time?
Can't see any way of doing this within Toodledo... Thought I could export the data and do it in Excel, but appears that Date Added is not included in the export facility. Any suggestions? Barbara |
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Posted Nov 06, 2011 in: Android Easy Task/Note Entry
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Well I've updated to latest Voice Search app, and it still doesn't work (just does the Google search). HTC Wildfire S running Android 2.3
I am in the British though, and came across a comment on the Android market that says Voice Actions only works for US English. Does that mean I have to fake an American accent to get this to work!? Anyone out there able to enlighten me? Barbara |