January 25, 2025

Gtd and taskwarrior

Today I read about GTD (Get Things Done) and task warrior. I have some understandings about the idea to how to organize the tasks. However, I have some questions related to GTD:

• Which situation the actions that received +waiting will appears to be executed?
• About defer, I have some questions related to actions that is from a project but does not receive +next tag. When this task will be reviewed?
• When I have to use tickle instead of think? Or tickle is only to support think command?

To answer the questions above:

• Some items are delegate (postpone) with due and waiting specific dates, but it is not related to tickle or think because both use in tag
• think when you want to think about something one more day, need to be a yes/no question.
• tickle is about tasks that you do not want think right now about it, and not be displayed until certain date
• Both think and tickle are different from delegate because they do not put a task inside inbox. Delegate are related to actionable tasks as well, not abstract ones.

For tasks that is delegated we can use a program called tasksh to review. Same works for tickle tasks that receive +waiting tag as well.

Defered tasks are tasks regarding a specific project. These tasks can receive +next tag or not, but they need to be related to project.

Try to broken tasks into small pieces because most of the time they are too abstract or big enough to begin, so almost everything is a project. Create a small group of tasks to begin the project and then create more one inbox item to be the idea/spark behind the second set of tasks and go on, until the project is finished. T

Sources

• GTD with Taskwarrior, part 4: Processing
• Getting Things Done (GTD) and what I made of it