Navigation:  Deciding what to do next > Selecting the next action

It's no good just listing your tasks. You have to do them. You can only do one at a time. So which one is it going to be? Scanning your entire task list can be very overwhelming, so you can divide and conquer by organizing tasks into Projects and assigning them to Contexts. The next step is to identify which of them are 'Next Actions'.

 

The Next Action is the next physical task that needs to be done, to move forward. Each of your projects should have a next action. So on your entire Task List, you will usually have several next actions.

 

To identify a task as a next action, click the Next Action icon on the Task List, or set its Status to Next Action. See Task Properties. If you click on the icon again, Next Action is turned off, and the Status is set to None.

 

To list only your next actions, click on the Next Action filter. See Searching & Filtering. This is an excellent way to narrow down your choice of what you are going to actually do next.