FlyLady vs. GTD

[vbampton]

Has anyone else been using HomeRoutines? How is it working for you?

I've got that app too, and I really like the idea, but I find myself falling off that wagon even more than the GTD wagon. I find it useful as a checklist when I do get stuck in to cleaning, and I agree I prefer keeping those tasks separate from my main GTD lists. I'm undecided which will stick though, as I forget to look at HomeRoutines. I'll either have to put some recurring tasks on my GTD lists to remind me to look at HomeRoutines, or I'll put a separate Domestic folder and context into OmniFocus with a separate perspective so it doesn't start repelling me. I'd love to hear some other ideas.

[Barb]

[QUOTE=artsinaction;95683]On the recommendation of another member, I'm trying out the iPad app HomeRoutines. I found that housework was difficult to keep in my GTD system - seeing cleaning items along with other projects on the same list repelled me. So I started by simply keeping a separate list for housework.

Home routines, though, is interesting because it lets you focus on a Zone a week... one Zone for the kitchen, another for the living room and so on, with the details of what needs to be done in those rooms in rotation as the weeks pass. And they're very customizable. So I'm finding that having that single-area focus for the week is less stress-inducing, and I accomplish more.

Has anyone else been using HomeRoutines? How is it working for you?

Thanks for letting me share.

Dena[/QUOTE

Checking it out now...thanks for the tip!

[Suelin23]

I tried Flylady before GTD, and have also tried and discarded the Home Routines app. I now use an app called CheckSheet, and the most important feature of the app is that you can hide all checked items. I've moved away from the Flylady philosophy of keeping a time schedule for your checklist and just have the items with no times. I have a morning checklist, evening checklist and weekend checklist, and individual room checklists.
I tick off an item whenever I've either done the item or decided not to do the item today. Then it vanishes and I no longer have to think about it. The best thing is the list gets smaller as you work through it, whereas HomeRoutines you still see the items you've done, and therefore keep thinking about them, which is anti-GTD (never have the same thought twice).
I use the same morning routine on the weekends too, somethings I will automatically tick off straight away because they only apply to going to work, and I don't mind if it takes me till lunchtime to tick them off because I'm having a lazy day and don't want to shower till then, as long as I have a list I don't forget it and it's my choice when to do it, I don't like the rigidity of Flylady, and like the fluidity of GTD.

[pondersaizi]

And I think that even though my system is basically electronic, this tray will by itself be the 'container' and the context, I don't need to list these items, I just have to sit down - pick an item and just do what's needed. I can even pick the one I think needs to be done first, even though it is not the top one - this tray is not an in-box - it's a context.

[pondersaizi]

I've got that app too, and I really like the idea, but I find myself falling off that wagon even more than the GTD wagon. I find it useful as a checklist when I do get stuck in to cleaning, and I agree I prefer keeping those tasks separate from my main GTD lists. I'm undecided which will stick though, as I forget to look at HomeRoutines. I'll either have to put some recurring tasks on my GTD lists to remind me to look at HomeRoutines, or I'll put a separate Domestic folder and context into OmniFocus with a separate perspective so it doesn't start repelling me. I'd love to hear some other ideas.

[KC in KS]

I've been doing FlyLady for something like 10 years; GTD for 3. I really think that they combine well.

Think of the routines as a GTD checklist. FlyLady is nudging you through a set of tasks to get ready for the day. DA recommends using a checklist for stuff you need to remember repeatedly, right? Both emphasize getting it out of your head and written down.

The Zone work becomes a weekly Project for me. The particular tasks end up on my Next Actions list with an @Home context.

Incorporating the Weekly Routine (Daily Focus) as FlyLady prescribes it is hard for me -- Monday is my Home Blessing Day, for example, but it takes SO LITTLE for that idea to get blown out of the water. GTD handles this better -- again, it's a Project, with tasks on the NA list. This way, if Monday doesn't happen according to plan, I can decide to reschedule it, spread it out over the week, or just punt it to next week.

A number of other FlyLady things work well as Tickler items. Check the girls (breast self-exam), for example.

(For those who feel like FlyLady is talking down to you, try to realize that she's trying to make things very concrete and physical. The goal IS to make certain activities fully automatic, so you don't have to think about them any longer. The process of getting them there still seems GTD-ish to me )

KC

[egallagher2k]

Just make each room in your home a context @Living room, @Kitchen, @ TV room and incorporate the Fly Lady routines into your NAs. Fly Lady's tasks are simply todos and you can schedule them into your system accordingly. I have "27 fling boogie" scheduled every Saturday in my system. I think Fly Lady and GTD go hand in hand.