The words the Project Organizer uses, one line each. Rename anything in your own copy.
| Term | What it means here |
|---|---|
| Finish line | What finished means for a project or a round, written so someone else could check it, then made one size smaller. |
| Considering, Active, Resting | A project you might take on; one you are working on in rounds; one you have paused on purpose. |
| Finished, Let go | A project that reached its finish line; one you decided to stop. Both get a line under Where it ended. |
| Why now | Why this project, this season. Written in the Project brief and copied to the project. |
| Where it ended | For a finished or let-go project: what it became, or why you stopped. |
| Look again | For a resting project: the date to look at it again. |
| Size (projects) | Small: a few sessions. Medium: a round or two. Large: several rounds or a season. |
| Round | A finite stretch of work on one project, with a finish line, a decision date or two and an end. Five weeks is a good default. |
| Decision date | A day in the round to choose: carry on as planned, run it light or change the plan. Kept in the round's Next decision field; change it once you have decided. |
| Handoff | A note written at the end of a round, so that you could open the project in six months and follow it in half an hour. |
| Now, Next, Later | This session or this week; after the Now tasks; someday. |
| How big (tasks) | Quick: under twenty minutes. A session: one sitting. Too big: needs breaking into smaller tasks before you start. |
| Real deadline | A date that exists outside you: a submission, a print order, an event. |
| Waiting on | Who or what a task is waiting for, if anyone. |
| Session note | A few lines left at the end of a work session: where you stopped, what comes next and what you were unsure of. |
| Season | The kind of time you are in: working, gathering (reading, collecting and thinking), rest or returning. |
| Inbox | Where anything that comes to you goes first, to sort at the start of a session. |
| Goes to | Where an inbox note belongs: Task, Project, Session note or Not sure yet. Leave it blank if you do not know. |
| Sorted | Ticked once a note is copied where it belongs. It leaves the inbox view and stays in the Inbox database. |