Palm: Projects & Sub Projects

[hagadol]

Trying to get my head around the best way to store Projects and Sub Projects on a Palm.

I am using MindManager for my main organisation of Projects. Which contains 6 main projects.
I view Mindmanager on my laptop though this is copied to my Palm as well, just in case I want to do a review when I am out.

In My Palm Tasks application , I have 6 entries for the main project headings and @ Out, @Contact as listings all under one Category.

During a Weekly Review (or more) of MindManager, I write just my next action items in each listing on the Palm, usually the next 4 or 5 actions per project. From there I leave as a mini list for regular checking and on a daily basis I schedule next actions into the Palm DateBK5 calendar. as needed.

I just started looking at GTD in the last 10 days. So I am in a migratory stage !

I am an FX Trader working from a home office.

So if I want to add sub projects to Palm Tasks which is the best way to set it up to avoid confusion between what is a project or a sub project.

General comments on the above welcome.

nb

My main Projects are:

Trading

Other Work (Any other business I am involved with)

Personal

Personal Finance

Performance (Personal Development)

MW - My girlfriends work

Focus - A daily focus list of habits I am trying to change !

[Brent]

Why do you want to put those sub-projects in your Tasks?

I may be wrong, but shouldn't your Tasks just be a list of Next Actions you can do in a particular context? Don't you have a separate list of Projects?

If you have ten tasks to do, what does it matter which sub-project they're part of?

[fokke.kooistra]

Hi Hagadol,

From your mail I get the impression that what you call your projects aren't actual projects with a successful outcome. It seems to me that your main projects actually are roles you have in life. Within those roles you may have projects.

So what I do is create a list of roles/areas in life that are important to me. From that list I generate for each area several projects that I would put on a projects list. During the weekly review I generate next actions for those projects.

Every other week or so I review my roles/areas list to see if new projects are needed.

Fokke
http://www.fokkekooistra.nl/blog/

[hagadol]

Thanks for the responses.

So how about this:

Mind Manager - Contains 'Life Area', 'Projects' and 'Sub Projects' (connected to each 'Life Area')

Palm Tasks - Make Categories for - @phone @Think @Office ect

So if I go to @Office Category - I will have all the 'Next Actions' to be done at the office.

I might have a 'Note' attached with a list connected to the 'Next Action' So if If 'Call Tony Blair' is a 'Next Action' the entry will appear in the @Phone Category in Palm Tasks and there might be a note attached with items to discuss with Tony Blair.

'Next Actions' which have to be done at a set day and time will go straight into the Calendar.

@ Think are items which I might want to spend time considering in full attention,, brain storming. This is weak area for me.

How do I interact between the @ Lists and my Palm Calendar (DateBK5)? Currently either last thing at night or first thing in the morning I make a schedule for the next day.

BTW, I just listened to a very inspiring Podcast with David Allen:

http://productivity.thepodcastnetwork.com/2005/06/14/the-personal-productivity-show-003

[MrProactive]

Have you looked at Bonsai (http://www.natara.com/Bonsai/index.cfm)? It's an outliner for the Palm from the people at Natara (http://www.natara.com/). It will allow you to organize the way you want to, and, I'm pretty sure it still links to Palm Tasks and Calendar items.