What's the big problem with To Do lists? They're overwhelming! To get through everything on your list, you need a personal assistant. How can your personal assistant help you?
When dealing with To Dos, you are either:
- Capturing
- Planning
- Doing
When you are CAPTURING, you want to note what needs to be done as quickly and efficiently as possible. You don't want to get bogged down organizing items - you can do that later when you're at the coffee shop or sitting on your patio having a glass of wine.
When you are PLANNING, you want to look at tasks associated with a given Project. That way you can think through the sequence and relationships between the related actions that move your project along.
When you are DOING, you want to know what tasks you can do given your current Context. This can be a physical location like At Home or a virtual location like On Internet or Phone.
This is the default mode on login. The only two available actions are Add Task and Add Project. Each brings up a form allowing you to add a task or project respectively, and provides "Save" and "Cancel" buttons that return you to the first screen (after saving and clearing the form with "Save", only clearing the form with "Cancel").
In this display, you can select a project from a selection box, beginning at the top level. The left hand side display will show the tasks associated with that project (at that level) and the right hand side will show subprojects (children projects) of that project. Clicking on one of the subprojects will re-do the display with that subproject now at the top level.
In this mode, you select a context from the drop-down selector, and get a list of tasks that are associated with / tagged with that context. For example: "I'm at home; show me all the tasks I can be working on while I'm at home" (regardless of what project they're associated with).
This mode is where you take the tasks you've captured and assign them to projects and contexts.