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Strategy for Meeting Agendas
Fri, 2005/12/09 - 11:23pm — Guest
Ethan, Great Application. Thank you!
Does anyone have advice for handling agendas? On my former hipster PDA, I would have an index card for each person. Would it make sense to create a context for wife, boss, co-workers, subordinates? (yes, those are prioritized)
The only problem I can see is having too many contexts. I would have about 10 people that I would have ad hoc meetings with. Also, how do you deal with a person that you meet with infrequently?
Any ideas would be welcome.
Steve
Meeting people
Hi,
I also meet a series of people and need to keep notes, or decisions to make with each person. Other than creating “long lists of people” I haven’t foung any other solutions.
It would almost be nice if
It would almost be nice if threre were a second context column.
First column: agenda
Second column: person
so you would have something like
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Strategy for Meeting Agendas
I’ve created separate contexts for:
My boss
My subordinates
Regularly scheduled meetings
I put in these contexts only those things that I want to discuss in person with these people or at these meetings. Emails, phone calls, and the like go in their own contexts—even if the emails and phone calls are to the boss or my subordinates—because I act in contexts. It’s only when I’m using email that I can send email. I can’t email someone when I’m talking to them.
I suppose it would be possible to create a project for each person as well so I have all of the tasks/contexts in one place, but I haven’t done that yet, as my projects are primarily topical rather than personal.
For people I see infrequently, I use the pre-set “Agenda” context. There usually aren’t enough entries for people in this group to justify creating their own context.
Ron
I would recommend making
I would recommend making contexts for key people (e.g. I have a “bee” context for my wife), and Ron’s example above are good. You may end up with more contexts than you expected, but I think this is the most intuitive way to do it.
Another option (and a strategy I employ as well) is to just set the first word of each “generic” agenda context task to a person’s name (or a client’s name, etc.). I’ve considered grouping Agenda context tasks by their first word, but not sure this is the most elegant way to handle things. I am trying to keep things simple and intuitive where possible, feedback on this idea welcome.
Finally, for regular meetings like staff meetings, I would absolutely make a staff meeting context.
Address book integration
If address book contacts were integrated contexts could be filled in with auto-complete. It would get annoying having that many new calendars in iCal and that many contexts, I agree a sub-context might be an interesting idea.
What would be really neat is if action items would pop up when I received a call from someone on my Treo 650, when I received an email from them, when I get in an Adium chat with them…
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But what is the intent?
Looking through the settings, I see that the Agendas context is singled out as special. That implies that KGTD has some built-in fu for handling agendas specially. What is it?
—mkb
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