Re: Waiting for and Contacts

Wow, that's great...even better...I agree with the utility of Waiting
for as a communication status. And, I agree with Davor, Waiting For
<Contact> somehow indicated somewhere, in the detail view perhaps.
Andre

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:14:35 -0700, "Mimi Yin" <[email protected]>
said:
> I've had trouble figuring out exactly where 'Waiting for' lives in  
> information model. I too have thought of it as a triage status. I  
> wonder though if it's not really a part of the 'communication  
> status'  family.
> 
> Read, Unread, Needs reply, Waiting for.
> 
> That way, 'Waiting for' items can have their own triage status.  
> 'Waiting for' something NOW versus 'Waiting for' something LATER  
> versus a completed 'Waiting for', DONE.
> 
> Now the question is, how do we integrated 'Whom we're waiting for'  
> into the model?
> 
> Mimi
> 
> On Jul 10, 2007, at 5:09 AM, Andre Mueninghoff wrote:
> 
> > Hi Davor,
> >
> > You may be thinking of the GTD triage status of "'Waiting for'". My
> > interpretation is that it is a type of Later. If I mark an item with
> > "'Waiting for'", in theory I know what I'm 'Waiting for' to be able  
> > to take
> > the next action step, Later. If and when custom triage status and
> > sections become available, I will implement 'Waiting for' immediately.
> > IMO, since Chandler is designed with GTD as one of its conceptual
> > sources, I think 'Waiting for' should be an OOTB triage status.  
> > This could
> > also draw more user adoption of those using GTD.
> >
> > Enjoy, Andre
> >
> > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:05:36 -0700, "Davor Cubranic"
> > <[email protected]> said:
> >> On Thursday 05 July 2007 04:57:43 Mimi Yin wrote:
> >>> Would it make sense to add a 4th triage status for something along
> >>> the lines of Archive?
> >>
> >> Isn't there a triage status in GTD named "Get to it"? (It's been a  
> >> while
> >> since I skimmed the book.) Although, I guess it works sort of like
> >> Chandler's "Later" without an alarm. Plus there is the "Reference
> >> file", which sounds like the "Archive" status for contacts that you
> >> mentioned.
> >>
> >> Davor
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