{"id":2079,"date":"2015-01-25T15:42:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T14:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oliverg.wordpress.com\/?p=2079"},"modified":"2015-01-25T15:42:19","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T14:42:19","slug":"my-computer-gtd-list-is-too-long-what-do-i-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oliverg.net\/wp\/?p=2079","title":{"rendered":"My @computer GTD-List is too long, what do I do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Question:<\/p>\n<p>Most of my actions are @computer. Now my @computer list is so long, that I feel I cannot work from it efficeintly. what can I do?<\/p>\n<p>Answer:<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s go back to the basic idea.<\/p>\n<p>GTD and contexts have the task to create a space for you, where you have already thought BEFORE and now can just &#8216;work off&#8217; the tasks.<\/p>\n<p>Many people suggest subcategories regarding energy, time usage and other to adress this problem. Some of these suggestions might help, others might not.<\/p>\n<p>So IF you do subcategories for &#8216; @computer&#8217; the question is:<\/p>\n<p>Do they help you to achieve that?<\/p>\n<p>The simple question is:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do I have in from of me a list of tasks I want or ought to do ASAP and can I do them whenever I am at my computer?<\/strong><br \/>\n(Not: In my office, not: at my computer offline.)<\/p>\n<p>The subcategories you might want to have might depend on:<br \/>\n&#8211; do you have offline work @computer?<br \/>\n&#8211; do you work @computer online out out of office?<br \/>\n&#8211; etc.<\/p>\n<p>But the main issue is: The question above, only if that is NOT given you need subcategories.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise if you have too many tasks it might be helpful to change the &#8216;flight altitude&#8217;:<br \/>\n&#8211; Look at your projects and decide if you can do all of those<br \/>\n&#8211; look at your areas of responsibility and check if you can &#8216;fulfill&#8217; all of those<br \/>\n&#8211; look at your relevant goals<br \/>\n&#8211; your relevant visions<br \/>\n&#8211; your principles<br \/>\nand decide what impact they have on all the lower levels down to the tasks.<\/p>\n<p>Some tasks might drift of to &#8216;someday&#8217; (or: &#8216;someday\/ideas&#8217; as I call it), others might vanish.<\/p>\n<p>So, in short:<\/p>\n<p>If your list is no longer a space you can work in in comfortably, it might make sense to reconsider not only the subcategories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Most of my actions are @computer. Now my @computer list is so long, that I feel I cannot work from it efficeintly. what can I do? Answer: Let&#8217;s go back to the basic idea. GTD and contexts have the task to create a space for you, where you have already thought BEFORE and now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oliverg.net\/wp\/?p=2079\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My @computer GTD-List is too long, what do I do?<\/span> weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliverg.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliverg.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliverg.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliverg.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliverg.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oliverg.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliverg.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliverg.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliverg.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}