This article is going to be about the next core princple "Organize".
I've writen about the first two principles already, and after this principle we still have two more to do:
So what is organizing about? It's about the ability to use different lists for the things you have to do. It's a lot liking grouping the things to do by different things, like:
Next Actions: For every item in your todo list you need to decide what is the next task to take action on. Those are preferably organized by the context in which they can be done, like: at home, at the phone.
Projects: Everything that has more than one task and belong together can be grouped in a project. I for example have a project 'Blog', this is an ongoing project, and everytime I think about a possible article I write it in my things to do list, file under 'Blog'.
By date: Most of your things to do will have a due date, or if it hasn't this is also a way of filing. For example most of my 'things to do for project blog' haven't got a due date. Just once in a while I look at them and pick one.
Waiting for: In your business life it is very well possible you have to wait for someone or something before you can start with your task. This could also be part of your organizing system.
I mostly organize my todo items by context, projects and date. I've never organized things by Waiting For. I think I might do this in the near future.
