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I'm a consultant with multiple clients, and I use a modified Getting Things Done (GTD) routine with Sandy to manage a busy and complex web of obligations. Ideally, I'd like to see the following on my Daily Digest, more or less in this order:

1. calendar items for today (such as appointments)

2. dated @todo items with dates coming up soon (e.g., next 7 days). These are, in essence, todo items that I've brought onto the front burner and made active by scheduling them for an upcoming day.

3. all @todo items for each of my Projects (example: @client1, @client2, @home, @family). To accomplish this, I habitually tag every todo item with both @todo and a Project tag like @client1, and I customized my Daily Digest to include sections for @client1, @client2, @home, @family, etc. at the top.

4. items (non-todos) in various fixed categories I like to look over every day, like my list of things to @read, things to @buy, etc.

5. all remaining @todo items -- these should all be duplicates of items in 3, but I scan them each day to make sure I didn't forget to tag any new todos yesterday with a Project, then I throw away these last page(s) of my printed Daily Digest

I can hack all this together in a more or less acceptable fashion using the existing Daily Digest functionality -- *except* for item 2. The dated @todos are buried in the other categories lower down (they don't even float to the top of their own categories, above the undated ones). Could you implement a way to somehow call out dated @todos so they floated to the top (near the calendar items), or were otherwise more visible?

The hack is for me to manually tag every dated @todo with an additional tag like @dated. But that feels like a less than ideal solution.

Howdy!

Our good friend Greg Borenstein over Ideas for Dozens has written up some wonderfully helpful articles on:

Working with Sandy via Twitter/SMS

A port of the fabulously useful "QuickSilver Append Trick" (for the incomparable QuickSilver on Mac OS X

And, my personal favorite of his write-ups — keeping things front-and-center using Safari's new Web Snippets feature

Greg writes:

I've made two Sandy-related widgets: one for my appointments for the month and one for my items tagged @computer. I use the @computer tag in a GTD-ish manner to specify TODO items that I can accomplish at my computer.

One of the big lessons I've learned from my attempts at doing GTD has been the importance of putting your inboxes and other TODOs directly in your path, someplace you'll stumble over them in the course of your normal daily operations. And these little applications are a really lightweight way to do just that, eliminating nearly all the friction involved in maintaining and making reference to my lists and reducing the opportunity for fiddling to a minimum.

If GTD is your cup of Rooibos, I highly recommend you take his instructions for a spin.

Thanks, Greg!

—R