How I made a choice what to do today

[Rainer Burmeister]

And how to handle Next Actions more smooth: are they for picking up where we left (and how to find them easlily between other actions then) or just a patch for discretional time???

Definitely both!

Usually I have at least two kinds of reminders for next actions. One kind is part of the scheduling entry (calendar or planner) and the other kind lives in a context list (@work or @home).

Next action reminders as part of the scheduling entry in my planner (paper notebook):

Let’s say in my job (occupational safety engineer) I have a project called „Inspection of the Institute of Pathology“. On my projects list I have several work packages for this project. One work package for this project might be „Update safety regulations for the use of Formaldehyde at Institute of Pathology“. The very next action would be: „Research safety data sheet for Formaldehyde“.

Somewhere in my planner then there would be the entry:
„Update s. reg. Formaldehyde at Pathology: Research safey data sheet for Formaldehyde“. This serves as a bookmark for the work package.

After I have finished this action I can either do something else for this work package (if there is still enough time scheduled for it) or work something completely different.

Next action reminders as part of a context list (@work or @home):

They can be used for discretional time and might be part of a work package or just one-step stand-alone actions.

For me it is a matter of priority to choose where I write the next action reminder, trying to match the worth of the action with the available resources of time and concentrativeness.

Rainer

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