u/Fleameat

Greetings, Collective.

I have recently purchased the core book for 4AD and have read it from cover to cover several times—an excellent description of the rules.

What I need is a supplement that takes my hand - as a new player - through those rules.

Are there any recommendations that teach as you play?

I go back and forth on the best approach to organize a project in Todoist. Mostly because I am not a huge fan of everything in Todoist being a project at the moment, with Folders only available to Workplace users. It will be a psychological game changer (for me) when Folders becomes available for "My Projects." Goodness, how long has the Todoist user community been asking for this feature? Centuries? Feels like centuries.

Here are the three approaches to organizing a project that I know of. Do you have a favorite? Do you organize your projects differently? Do you have a hybrid approach?

PROJECTS

The default, I believe. You create a "project", which is essentially just a bucket, and load it up. These could contain Sections to indicate sub-projects or special areas of concern, such as "Pending" actions or "Reference" material. It can also contain Tasks with parent/child relationships. The "catchall" for everything else that follows, since everything else lives in a Project.

SECTIONS

Create a Section, give it a title, and go nuts with tasks underneath it. This certainly sounds like a good approach, but Todoist does not currently allow you to mail directly to a Section. This forces users to mail to the associated Project the Section is in, and then manually move it to the section using your mouse (or other pointer device).

PARENT/CHILD TASK STRUCTURE

The most minimal, and arguably easiest, approach to quickly create a Parent (Project) / Child (Associated Task) visual to organize your thinking and execution. Oddly enough, you CAN mail directly to a task, allowing a user to capture reference information in the Parent Task (the "project" in this case) that might be useful as reference information. Easy organization of ordering, as well. The downside is that you might be heavily dependent on Tags to help clarify what comes next. It is also slightly more difficult to view and takes longer to navigate. No specific Insights, either, if that matters to you. It does provide a much easier activity (history) feature.

Greetings, all.

I’m just now starting my journey into the dark with my group of four.

And loving it.

Is there a comprehensive list of all the books and support material available to help expand the game? Perhaps a great website dedicated to the game?

My thanks for any advice and suggestions!

Disclaimer: All items listed here have been forwarded to the Todoist team via the provided feedback button in the Insights sidebar on Todoist.

In no particular order...

• Allow users to create a Deadline for the project (as they did for the ill-fated Goals) that is shown in the Insights sidebar, in My Project Overview, and as a field value that can be used with filters. This will make the "At Risk" portion of the Insights all the more powerful by providing users with an alert when a Project is coming due with X% still open to complete.
• Move project description to the Insights sidebar (again, similar to Goals).
• Show how old a project is (useful when determining if the project has outlived its purpose)
• Add more detail about why a task is "At Risk"
• Allow users to select what an "at-risk" task is and is not (every project is different, as are the risks)
• Add an icon in one of the columns of the My Projects Overview that identifies if a project is "at risk."
• Add a column that shows the project's deadline (if used)
• Allow users to sort the columns (ascending, descending)
• Give users the ability to create Folders (feature currently available in Workspaces) so we don't have to see "bucket parent projects" as part of the structure that suggests the project has stalled.
• Give users the ability to "ignore" some projects. This is especially true if a project is just a bucket of continued tasks associated with an Area of Focus/Responsibility rather than a project.

Overall, pleased with the initial Experimental release, but there are several improvements to be made to make this something empowering and actionable before it is released to the larger audience.

I have also heard from some that the Insights isn't needed, useful, and just creates stress. A valid point, suggesting maybe Insights be something that is toggled on or off from the settings.