Quote Originally Posted by DavidAllen View Post
About three or four years ago, my "flat" lists of projects and actions couldn't keep me as much on top of my world as I needed. So I wound up creating a map (in my case, using a MindManager mindmap on my computer) of "DA World" that gave me a thumbnail sketch of everything I should be considering, as soon as I had any discretionary time. They include significant events coming toward me, key strategic projects, emerging interest areas, and links to maps of my different horizons. In a way it's double-entering (because they're all in some form on other lists), but it's a more meta- and weighted-look at key stuff. There have been days I've needed to refer to it several times; and days I didn't need to look at it at all. The driver should be: what's nagging at you? and what do you need to be reviewing to relieve that pressure?

David
Thank you for your thoughts, David. Now that I think about it I quite often reach for a whiteboard and draw a visual picture of my current spiders' web.

You've articulated the issue I had with that- that of duplication. On the other hand it does help define what "done looks like"! I haven't really tried formal mind-mapping software, but I'll give it a go to see how it all fits together.

Having that picture in front of me may well help navigate the shifting sands and chose which action to take in the moment. Much appreciated!