Projects

Projects are indeed a great way to organize tasks. However, you can’t get the wrong idea about what they are. You shouldn’t create a project for something extremely broad or something small.

Misuse

Examples of misuse of projects are:

A “Work” project and a “Leisure” project (without differentiating between the vast forms of leisure you probably have, for example).
A project for a science fair, just because you think of it as a “project” (a better use would be to put a “Science Fair” task in the “School” project and associate subtasks with it).
A project with several unrelated tasks, such as one for doing laundry and another for proofreading texts.

How to use it correctly?

The right way is to think of projects as separations of different areas of your life. And the best thing about them is that you can create subprojects. Remember up there when I said ”[…] without differentiatingthe vast forms of leisure […]”? What I meant was that a good way to use “Leisure” as a project is to create a “Leisure” project and other subprojects for things that will have several tasks. For example, a subproject with tasks related to music and another with tasks related to series and anime.

An example of good use of projects:


Org
    House
    Personal
    Finances

Lazer
    Games
    Music

Social
    Networking
    Events

Health

<MyBigProject>

See how it’s well separated and specific? This way, you’ll rarely have trouble choosing where to put a certain task, since the projects aren’t extremely comprehensive or simple. I also put “<MyBigProject>”, which is basically a big project that takes up a lot of your time and is extremely relevant to you. For example, I have a project for Maya’s company, so it’s organized like this:


Rikagaku
    Website
        Docs
        Blog
    Maya
    Business

Other good practices

Make names ridiculously easy to remember.
Avoid having more than 7 main projects, because if you go beyond that limit, you’ll probably start to forget about them when creating tasks.
Associate what the project represents with things that are already established in your way of organizing things. For example, I have a main project called “CerebralLine”, where I put everything related to essentially intellectual processes.

Conclusion

Get organized, try new things, and feel free to see what works best for you. It will also be a great help to the entire community if you share your progress with us!