Alternative View for Scheduled: Normal Manual
The currently available view for Scheduled, i.e. sorted by date, is (at least in theory) useful for the weekly reviews, so I am not asking you to take it away (although in my case it is mainly cluttered with tiny routine actions that I am already roughly aware of and therefore do not particuarly need to see).
But what I miss very often is the normal kind of Nirvana view, i.e. a manually sorted view.
For example, if I realize that I need to have a repeating action for paying a particular kind of tax, then the first thing I want to check is whether I have this action already on my list, or if I have something similar on my list that I pethaps should consolidate into one action. Basically, I probably need to review my whole set of scheduled actions related to taxes and bookkeeping to make sure I have it all covered effectively without any redundancies. The trouble is finding them. Implementing a whole bunch of tags just for such purposes (bookkepping, health, whatever) does not seem like a viable option.
The standard Nirvana approach with manually sorted lists would be just perfect. Simple and good. And consistent with Nirvana's general approach to lists. I would then just keep my actions listed in natural groups where I can easily find what I need.
2 Posted by Proximo on 30 Jan, 2012 07:22 PM
Wow
I only have about 10 scheduled task at any one time, so I never found the difficulties you describe here. I just checked and I currently have 6. :-)
What you need to do is not schedule so many things. Start saying NO more often and delegate as much as possible to others.
ROFL
3 Posted by Folke on 30 Jan, 2012 09:01 PM
Hahaha :-)
Well, that is not the case here, I assure you :-)
I have a huge bunch of scheduled repeating routine tasks. That is the vast majority of my Scheduled. (I may have a poor memory, and definitely also have a tendency to forget boring routine stuff :-)
Most of my once-off non-actionable Next-type tasks belong in various sequential projects, or fit well in the upper part of Someday. They are usually not date-driven, so I do not keep them in Scheduled. I catch these tasks from projects and Someday during reviews or in the Unified Next List.
For once-off tasks I use Scheduled mainly if the time until they will become actionable is both very long and very well defined - i.e. truly date driven and inactive for so long that I cannot bear the thought of having to see them during so many reviews. I currently have 4 of those. (The rest are my X dozen repeating routine tasks :-)
But let me turn it around. If you have so few all in all, then the sorting order wouldn't matter much to you, so why not at least keep it all consistent - manual sorting available in all lists, that is one of Nirvana's hallmarks, isn't it :-)
4 Posted by Proximo on 01 Feb, 2012 07:07 PM
I agree.
I have no problem with the idea. It's just interesting to see how many different work styles we have in the community.