Jan Schulz

Another post about my road to productivity heaven with eProductivity. This time how I plan my next day.

When I've lots of things to do, I like to plan my next day on the evening before that day. For this, eProductivty gives me the possibility to flag action to be done today. The are then visible in the today view (my default on opening the mailfile), which lists all calendar items for today, the due actions for today and everything I've taged as "do it today".

Usually I go through different views to look out for the tasks I want to do on the next day. This involves looking at my current projects ("projects and actions" view) amd the contexts I will "visit" that day. (I would also like to look at my high priority actions, my urgent ones and the actions for the various people I meet, but there are currently no views for that or the view is not compatible to my setup.)  To mark an action for "today", just click the small green flag and it will get flagged:



After that some short quiet time remember everything I might have missed yet and I'm ready to go to bed :-)

The next day I'm greeted by a nice view with all the planned actions on it:



What I'm still missing is a possibility to put this actions into an order or assign them timeslots. No idea if that's actually possible with notes. This would be great to have to implement in full the other time management techniques I learned (privatization with the eisenhower method, doing the time allocating for actions the day before, adding buffers)
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Somehow this soundes like small weekly review, but just that I do that daily and not that extensive. As far as read the GTD book yet, there were no recommendations or actually tips on how to plan the day, so it seems that I either missed that part (or didn't understand it) or that GTD is missing this :-)