How to solve the"last" issues (Deadlines especially)
Hi.
Hope this is the right place to get assistance.
I have been using Thinsg3 since five years or so. Before that I used 2Do-which had major issues back then.
Since I am moving away from third party apps and try to use as many of the Apple built in solutions as possible - Passwords instead of 1Password, Notes instead of any of the myriad and so on.
As for Reminders I find a lot of pluses in it for me, mostly
- - Priorities
- - Smart folders
What I find annoying with Reminders is:
The notes section, where you can't close the note but you see it all the time. So if you have a long note it needs a lot of scrolling. One solution I am trying now is to actually put all the notes in - you guessed it - Notes. And then link that note to Reminders.
The plus with Things3 is in my mind:
- Duedates AND Deadlines
- Collapsable note fields
- UI
I am not using the GTD system. Since I didn't really understand it. I just ended up with a long list of unfinished tasks.
The way I hope I will manage to use Reminders is to make me actually do the important stuff and not have a zillion tasks in the Today-list.
This is my plan:
- Prioritised (All tasks due today that has a priority)
- Unprioritised (is that a word? Tasks due today that have no priority)
- Later (I have a tag "later" and the tasks with that tag ends up here, regardless if they have a date or not. My try to replicate "Sometimes" in Thinhgs 3)
- Undated. (All tasks without a date and no tag "later". Which means they are 'do if you want or just delete them). Once a week I check these two -later and Undated-and see if I should put a priority, a date or both.
I just can't leave Things3 because of the Due date/Deadline. But there MUST be a way to solve that issue? Maybe just put a deadline in the Calendar, and add it as a part of the task title (send to editor, deadline 30 May). Or how would you solve it?
Other wise I think Reminders will fit me better since I don't use GTD- if anything I probably more use a confused version of PARA.
Thanks for any help.
/TA