To-do lists

Scrivener
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Hi all:

I’m in the process of converting a large collection of to-do lists I’ve made on Backpack (37signals.com) into Scrivener Projects.

What is the best way to manage to-do lists in Scrivener? I imagine this scenario: making a folder for Today, This Week, Next Week (and so on); giving each to-do item a separate text document (so they can be easily rearranged by priority); and then deleting them as I complete them.

Any other techniques I should consider?

Michael

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If you haven’t already considered it… you might want to use custom meta-data: assign a date or a priority rating or another other value – or several of them, independently – then sort documents according to any of the values.
I find it useful as a minimalist time line for fiction.

ps

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Thanks for that. What’s the most effective way to attach due dates to to-do items? I already use labels to categorize my documents–a great way in index card view to see whether a to-do item for today, or this week, is “Home” or “Office” work, for instance.

But how would you add a second layer of labels to say this item should be done by the end of the week, and another by the end of the month?

Michael

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For due dates I would create a custom meta-data column. Note these are all just plain-text columns, but you can easily add a date string to that and so long as you use a format that is easy to sort by, use the Outliner to view and sort this column. This will be of limited use to you. It’s not going to be like most task management programs where you can request to see items within a certain date range, but sorting by date is similar to this, you just see everything around the dates you are interested in as well.