Feature request: GTD

madsurgeon 2009-10-01 14:00:03 UTC #1

I am a big fan of the “Getting Things Done” method by David Allen (GDT - the german article is even better).
One main idea is using context such as @home, @table, @phone in addition to projects so that one can filter for all activities to be done ina similar context or situation.
I think that the whole process of GTD is quite elaborated and I would love to see it implemented in eGW. As a first step I think the addition of context would make sense.
If there is some way to implement context information and filtering with the recent system, please show me how.

Thanks, David

Hans-Jurgen_Tappe 2009-10-01 15:40:40 UTC #2

Hi!

madsurgeon schrieb:

I am a big fan of the “Getting Things Done” method by David Allen (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done GDT - the german article
is even better).
If there is some way to implement context information and filtering with the
recent system, please show me how.

Would the existing categories do the job?

Best regards,
Hans-Jürgen

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madsurgeon 2009-10-05 15:25:03 UTC #3

Not really. In the GTD system context is orthogonal to categories. The latter are thematic, the former are local and/or temporal.
A possibility would be to be able to select two categories per task. Then one could make two root categories: projects and context.
Although, that would be rather confusing, especially for beginners.

Cheers, David

Ralf_Becker_6 2009-10-05 15:35:15 UTC #4

In InfoLog you could using custom status for that purpose, they are
independent of the category.

Ralf

madsurgeon schrieb:

Hans-Juergen Tappe wrote:

Would the existing categories do the job?

Not really. In the GTD system context is orthogonal to categories. The
latter are thematic, the former are local and/or temporal.
A possibility would be to be able to select two categories per task. Then
one could make two root categories: projects and context.
Although, that would be rather confusing, especially for beginners.

Cheers, David

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