Getting Started with Natural Project Management
The latest Preview feature in the Trog Bar is Natural Project Management. This slick tool will let you organize arbitrarily complex projects in bite sized pieces. Here is a brief overview that will get you started with this powerful new feature.
It’s a Project!
Your unprocessed list meets with numerous new arrivals every day. If you are among the blessed few, this number has only one digit, but if you are like me, or countless others, you net 20-100, maybe more. One of the basic tenets of GTD is the processing system, and one of the first questions you ask yourself when processing is “Is it a project?” Now, with the Trog Bar, you can handle these projects better than ever.
When you meet one of these projects, flip open the “Steps” tab, and type in the next step, easy as that. Now for the awesome part: it works with emails too. When you get that email, just add a next step, and voilà! It’s a project!
It’s a BIG Project!
Every project should have one next action, and you should work only that action until it is done, so says GTD. Unfortunately, the reality on the ground is a little different. Especially in large projects, there may be many steps in a project that you can do, so there is no solid “next” step. There are in fact many possible next steps. Natural Project Management allows you to specify multiple steps as they occur to you. Any steps with no remaining prerequisites can be marked as “Ready” and will show a green circle next to them. These steps will appear in the various lists in the Trog Bar.…
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