Wonderful post @trebso, and couldn’t agree more with those nuggets you found:
This is exactly the idea behind Agenda indeed. I always noticed how simple text editors worked so much better than any task manager I would try, which led to the idea behind Agenda.
- “You don’t need to track every task. Most often, you know what you need to do to advance a particular project - you don’t need all those tasks in your task manager. You just need to record “work on Project X"
Exactly, and importantly like @drewmccormack mentioned the other day, it also goes the other way: you don’t necessarily need to mark each and every item in your list as checked either. It’s fine to move on, leaving some checklist items unchecked (even if you did do them) when you archive a project.
- “Managing some kind of project structure for your Tasks, in a Task Manager, is too many decisions and wastes too much time.” Yup, and you have issues about should it be the same structure as in Agenda etc.
Hear hear. In fact, one of the reasons Agenda fits my own workflow so well is that I have a roughly similar project structure in Agenda, as I have my tags in Gmail, as well as my folder structure of documents and files in Dropbox. It means that across apps you always kind of know where to look for things, and that it becomes kind of natural where items fit, regardless the type of content (files, notes, emails).