How do you implement "next steps" in Checkvists?

How do you implement "next steps" in Checkvists? I recently started tagging the next step in every project with "#next" and move that tag from step to step as I go along - at least for a group of my top active projects. Are you using other methods to collect "next steps"?

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  1. Kirill Maximov (KIR)10 April 2015 at 02:09

    Hello Edo, I'm not very familiar with GTD, but tagging could work the way you describe it. An alternative could be marking such list items for 'ASAP' due, thus you'll have a list of such steps on the Due page.

    But tags can work as well, given that you can perform local/global search on a tag.

    Best,

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  2. Edo Amin Elan10 April 2015 at 02:44

    Yes, using a "Next" tag and then accessing it from the tag list is indeed an option - as ling as the tag has a URL that shows results collected from all my lists. In that way, it would be indeed similar to a list of "starred" items in some apps.

    One comment though - dating a task as ASAP signifies urgency - while the very reason behind the concept of "next" or "starred" is to avoid urgency by collecting the tasks that matter, and attracting attention to them, BEFORE they have deteriorated to "ASAP". From this point of view, my ideal state in life could be defined as an empty list of "ASAP" tasks. :)

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  3. Neil Hastings10 April 2015 at 06:23

    Edo Amin Elan i use the action and next tags in my daily reviews in the evenings.  I set the "tomorrow" date on the next actions I am going to focus on the next day for each project in each context.  Then I work off of the agenda view during the day to keep me focused on those tasks.

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  4. Edo Amin Elan19 April 2015 at 08:03

    Re: using the #next tag - it works, kinda. But there are a few things that you can't do with it. 1. When I click the tag  to view tasks based on it, I can't act on a task (e.g., using "dd" or "tt"). I have to actually click it to get to it in its non-tagged location and act on it there, then return to my tag review (via a mouse click, again). Is this intended? I would like tasks to be tag-able and date-able wherever they show. 2. You do not get notifications sent to you daily. So really, the definition for what constitutes a "due" task which has popped up here is far from an abstract issue.

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