#organization
random whale
give some examples
Basically anything that is really time senstive (aka specifc day/time) goes on the calendar-- everything else goes into the reminders tool in one of the above 3 buckets.
zinc pewter
nearly none of my stuff is time sensitive, and a lot of the problem I'm trying to solve is deciding which among the equally valid choices I should do next
random whale
you could rank each thing by expected amount of time
zinc pewter
it's mostly about translating the ideas I've had and the things I've committed to do or make into something that someone else can pick things from for me to do.
for the house, as an example, I need to upgrade the railings on the front and rear stairs to match the front porch (the contractor only roughed in railings); I need to make 15 picture frames of various sizes; I need to rearrange the storage in the basement to make space for my CNC to vent out the window; and probably 7 other things that have different priorities for my sweetie from day to day.
i have at least 30 things on that level for work and probably 45 things on that level for hobbies
and all of that is why I was hoping to find a community that liked talking about this instead of just unloading in the off-topic section here
random whale
That all seems doable.
As weird as it sounds, maybe take a class on project management (where your life is the project lol)
zinc pewter
I've taken 3 of the 5 sections in Coursera for the Google Project Management course
and then these other things cycled ahead to be more important and it got back burnered
I've tried a lot of different things over the years, but not anything that was useful enough to stick with
random whale
Maybe start by building a list in google sheets, then have a column for "expected time commit", 1-5 importance rank to you, 1-5 importance rank to your partner. Sort on time then rank to you (or partner) I guess then the remaining rank.
Then at the start of each week pick the 5-10 things you can fit into that week
(then actually schedule time to do them)
zinc pewter
i spent twenty minutes last night trying to build an outline for just the top level of these things, without breaking it into tasks before I decided the outline wasn't right either. the list is more than 150 lines long
I am not at the point in this process where guessing how long things take or how important they are will help
i appreciate that you want to help, but my circumstances aren't directly comparable to yours
random whale
So for the picture frames-- do you have 1 line for that? or 15? or more?
zinc pewter
one line
random whale
Maybe that's the issue
zinc pewter
well, it's an outline so that's actually one line plus a fraction of the line for the header, but still basically one line
the problem I ran into was that the organization for the outline wasn't going to help me rank the "projects" in any useful way
I'd reused an old idea of organizing by location
random whale
got it. on my list I'd have the frames as 15 lines. Then I can decide to knock out 3 frames tomorrow (and check 3 things off to build momentum) and my time estimates are ballpark
zinc pewter
that would just make the list longer and not do anything to deal with the pre-requisites for that.
also, it's an outline so "15 frames" would be broken down into "order materials" and "design CNC profile for carving" and a couple of other things before it got broken into 15 tasks for 15 frames
right now 15 frames isn't a product so much as a goal with steps to complete first
random whale
in that case you might try something like Asana (free). You could build all of this out, schedule or not, rank or not, set dependencies all of that
zinc pewter
but these are just surface examples and not really digging into the problem
zinc pewter
I tried but did not like Asana. and I don't really want a tool so much as a process
random whale
and at home I can keep the steps in my head as long as the goals are documented
but I hear what you're saying
zinc pewter
the thing I didn't like about asana was that it added a giant additional project of "get used to asana and configure it to be useful"
random whale
100% fair haha
zinc pewter
I have a 99 year old house, a sweetie who likes to decorate as much as I do, and a woodworking habit
on top of a cycling habit and a generic making habit and a gaming habit and a home automation habit and a desire to maintain my own things and etc
oh, and a vacation coming up mid july, unreliable employees, a gap after my top employee retired until that replacement starts, and a new cohort of students starting at the beginning of july
random whale
Yep, I'm right there (on all counts except for the century home-- grew up in those haha)
