To answer your question, I don't change the context to @Week, it's just another category, and in the Weekly view I maintain a context-based grouping (plus, you can filter down to two categories on the Blackberry – say @Week and @Calls). To be honest, Outlook has flags for “Next Week” and similar which would probably work too (much like you are describing for Lotus Notes and eProductivity), but I didn't think to try it.

Interesting tweak for the trusted system. I'm (unfortunately) on Lotus Notes, and eProductivity, the system I use has a “Today” view which is basically a flag you set for the things you want to nail that day. I'm curious that if you actually change the context to @Week, you are basically getting away from context based task organization and back to old school prioritization, right? What matters is that you are GettingMoreDone, which is what it's all about in the end.

To answer your question, I don't change the context to @Week, it's just another category, and in the Weekly view I maintain a context-based grouping (plus, you can filter down to two categories on the Blackberry – say @Week and @Calls). To be honest, Outlook has flags for “Next Week” and similar which would probably work too (much like you are describing for Lotus Notes and eProductivity), but I didn't think to try it.

Interesting tweak for the trusted system. I'm (unfortunately) on Lotus Notes, and eProductivity, the system I use has a “Today” view which is basically a flag you set for the things you want to nail that day. I'm curious that if you actually change the context to @Week, you are basically getting away from context based task organization and back to old school prioritization, right? What matters is that you are GettingMoreDone, which is what it's all about in the end.

This post was mentioned on Twitter by GAStroz: I’d like to thank @CoachClaudine for her help on improving my #gtd approach, as described in this post http://bit.ly/9HGUxv...

For example, I'm working on rolling out an outbound marketing program right now (a project). This consists of building our target list and providing the sales tools for the program (both of which are subprojects). Each has a next action on my “@Week” list right now: for the first it's “reformat spreadsheet for upload into our CRM system” and for the second it's “complete calling scripts for sales managers”. Both can be done in parallel. Once I finish the first, the next action is “upload program to CRM system”. Obviously, I can't do that until I finish the first action, so there's no use cluttering up my task list with it (if the progression were not as clear, I might list the tasks in a note associated with the project). The point is to only keep in front of you what you can actually act upon now.

So glad the tweak worked well for you!

It's the focus on the person and the individualized approach that makes coaching so powerful (regardless of the type of coaching) – we work off core concepts, but the solutions are tailored to your specific situation, your specific system, and what YOU want to ultimately be able to do.

I know you've heard me say this before, but I love what I do!

Claudine

P.S.: I'm assuming you like to see the crossed off tasks as a sense of “completion” – if you don't though, let me know and I'll tell you how to tweak the view so you see only your current/active tasks.