How do people handle meetings...as tasks within a project or a project in itself?
I realize this may seem petty, but it has been a thorn in my side for a while. I am wondering how people handle meetings within GTD. I realize they go on the calendar, because they have a specific date/time, but the problem I have is that if the meeting is mine, in a way, it is a small project (any activity with more than 2 action items)...
- schedule meeting
- prepare agenda
- send out agenda
- conduct meeting-
- process meeting notes
- send out meeting notes
- so on and so forth
The problem is that most of my meetings are associated to current projects, so that if I make it its own project, I lose the association to the mother-project.
Ideas?
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2 Posted by Proximo on 21 Jul, 2010 04:37 AM
This is why sub projects would be great.
What you can do for mow is create the meeting task inside the parent project and use the checklist feature in the task notes to keep track of the additional steps you require.
To create a checklist, just type in (hyphen) (Space) (task).
- task 1
Personally, I just handle the meeting as a separate task with the checklist and choose a title that clearly states it's part of a project.
3 Posted by candeshouse on 21 Jul, 2010 12:50 PM
Perfect...thanks...and agreed, sub-projects would be the right answer.
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