ADVANCED TUTORIALS
The Lists
The Lists option in the Organize menu allows you to access your inventory of reminders in their corresponding organizational categories.
When Clarifying your captures, each item is put into one of these lists according to their specific meaning and nature.
From this option you can check them up, as well as update them (change, add or delete information; move them to another list, or discard them).
The lists are the following:
- Inbox: The list to which all your captures are initially sent and stay until getting clarified.
- Calendar: It contains the actions you have to do on a specific date. It may also contain relevant information linked to specific dates (e.g. the moment something expires or must get started).
- Next Actions: Here you will find all those actions you have to do by yourself as soon as possible, with no specific date attached.
- Waiting For: This list will receive all your delegated actions, the ones that have to be carried out by someone else. Although you don’t have to do them yourself, you are responsible for supervising their progress.
- Someday/Maybe: This list contains all those things you cannot commit to for the time being and so, you don’t know what you are going to do about them yet. It is recommended for you to look at it during the Weekly Review process to evaluate the relevance of the elements it contains and clarify them accordingly when the time comes.
- Reference Material: It stores all the information that you want to have access to and may be useful for your ongoing projects and actions.
- Tickler File: A list containing those actions you don’t need to see and remember until a future point in time. For more information about this list take a look at this tutorial.
- Trash: The container for all the items you have discarded during the last seven days. After the seventh day, they will be automatically removed from your system.
- Done: The place where all your completed actions will appear.