I merge both in one document since my work and personal life are really intermixed (e.g. is professional development personal or work). I might seperate it into two documents later though, I personally stick with one until the demand for 2 is something I cannot do without
I’m still experimenting with tags as well, but uniquely named ones work best. I think of how people name their domains, and use those as best practice
I keep all my events / things scheduled with other people on google caleendar (lunch, gettogether, meetups, etc), and then all my projecttasks and things I have to do in the week for my giant “tasks list” that I look at throughout the week (alt1 shortcut)
I use this convention as well, for subproject tags. So you can type in “PP” and see the other items down the list
its interesting you decided to organize things by cognitive associations, and assigned tasked based on the action. Although I tend to do little tasks like email, reply, call, on stickynotes, or right inside the application itself.
It doesn’t make sense for me to use dynalist to do these things, since it adds extra steps that add no value as a whole to my thought process (imo).
Like on my email, I will know I have to reply to someone, because I have starred or remarked the item as “unread” in my inbox, and deleted everything else. I also definde my SOP procedures as well what I do with emails when I see them , so this is all automated. I don’t get a lot of emails generally, since they are so highly filtered, and everything goes through a bayensian junk filter as well
On calls, I will see there’s a missing call, so I will make my phone have certain notification tags, etc
On socialmedia, I inbox it so if anyone comments on my fb posts, it goes straight to email, and I subsequently check that only normally
Writing, I prefer a different medium all together. Dynalist is pretty crappy for traditional word text formatting, so I hyperlink the document I am working on, in app.classeur.io , which is a markdown live/preview editor. Also, this is where I share documents too, I do not do any sharing in dynalist, on attachments or documents. Its just bad practice to associate a private notetaking app with sharing features, or to associate writing (a thesis or book) with dynalist. I do preliminary outlining in dynalist, and then write the actual doc elsewhere, or just do everything elsewhere
In the end, all of these #call #reply #email are all well defined in my SOP manual in the other post, so I will never forget, because as I continuosly do the same steps over and over, I will just remember. If i forget, SOP manual is there.
Things I no longer follow are simply Crossed out with swiggles , but left on there, in the event I might use it again (e.g. you change city, you don’t follow the same sort of things you normally do anymore)
I have considered a tag for assigning urgency, but I really don’t think I’ll follow up on them. As David Allen said, have as many lists as you can upkeep and review when applying GTD
For me, that’s just one list
I organize my daily log notes [thoughts, hashing out new ideas, oneliner notes describing what I did throughout day, etc] by the following conventions:
✪DAY
✪✪Tag1 Tag2 Tag3 [Roughly made at 10 AM in morning]
✪✪✪ NOTE
<------------- Had to do something else like check emails ------>
✪✪ Tag1
✪✪✪ Note
<-------------Someone interrupted me for an hour ---------->
✪✪ Tag1
✪✪✪ Note
<-----interrupted for 5 minutes—>
✪✪✪ Note
✪✪✪ Note
When I look through my notes, they are spaced out by generally, time delays when I had to focus on something else, a meeting happened and I sort of lost my thought process, or I got interrupted from a phone call
Generally speaking, things i did that morning sit near the top, things i did in afternoon / evening sit at the bottom
Some days I might write, 5000 words (Hashing out ideas, and general research thoughts)
consequently, I also outline research papers right then and there inside my dynalist.io
Other days, since I am so focused on something else, or didn’t have time, might write 100 words
to give you perspective , this is what Monday and Sunday looked like:
