GTD fans: how to you track the "next" next action on a project?

michael.b.darby says:

I currently implement the GTD system with contexts (@home, @calls, etc.), projects (defined as seperate tasks and tags, e.g. p-sell_car), with a focus on specific next actions. I use various smart lists to jump between different views depending on the situation.

My question is, when a particular next action for a project is completed, how do people decide what the next thing to do is? For example, on the "Sell Car" project, if one just completed "register for cars.com account" does one then brainstorm about what comes next? Or do people plan out the steps in advance and put them in the notes field of a Project-specific task (e.g. the notes of the Sell Car project task?)

Thanks,
Michael

Posted at 7:03am on November 7, 2008

teebark says:

In addition to using a tag to define a project, I use the list name. For instance, sell_car would be a list named sell_car. For "next items," I make them a priority 1. Then, I have a smart list for @home, @work, etc., that filters on all priority 1 tasks. Then, I just click on my @home smart list, and it pulls up all priority 1 tasks in all projects. I tag the task with the task list name, so for a task under sell_car, I would enter it as: "post ad." The tags would be: @home, sell_car. Every item in that list would have the same tags That way, the @home smart list shows the project that it came from. This lets me see all tasks in 2 different ways: one by list, that shows all tasks for a project, and one that lets me see them via smart list as "next step" items.
An optional 3rd entry for tags might be: @home, sell_car, agenda. The added item "agenda" at the end lets me search across all my lists (smart list agan), so for example, if I was reporting on my progress, I would do a searth on all "agenda" tags for inclusion in my report.

Posted at 9:52pm on November 25, 2008

・プロジェクトごとにリストを作る
・リストの中にプロジェクトのタスクを配置する
・タスクにプロジェクト名のタグをつくる
・下位プロジェクトは xxx.xxx というオブジェクト式のタグをつける
・NextActionに該当するタスクのPriorityを1にする
・コンテキスト（@会社, @自宅)ごとのPriority1のタスクを取得するスマートリストをつくる
・プロジェクトのタスクを見たい場合は、tagContains:xxx で検索