Quote Originally Posted by Mic View Post
I expected many replies regarding processing urgent items on the fly, keeping them from blowing up.
My urgent on the fly items need to go immediately from input to decision to doing with no stopping so they never make it to a list of next actions. Most are emergencies that happen in the course of doing something on my next action lists.

Recent example:

Routine check on the adult rams to deworm them. Bring them all in to the sweep for a check and wormer as needed. Discovered 1 ram had a horn injury that was flystruck. This new input resulted in an immediate change of plans to cut the horn off, disinfect and kill the fly larvae and bandage the ram up. Part way through sawing the horn off we hit a blood vessel, now it's an immediate emergency to finish sawing the horn quickly to cauterize the horn core, and grab some paper towels and duct tape to apply a pressure bandage. Ram is fine BTW. My "inbox" went from input to emergency to solution in the space of about 15 minutes.