So,in my Household area of focus, I have a goal to make my house someplace where my entire family wants to come for holidays and spend time together and someplace where I can relax from a very stressful professional life. To achieve that, I have several high level objectives. The house is very large and older, so I have one around getting everything in full working order. I have another around automating the house so it is less hassle, etc. Inside the get everything in full working order, I have a more concrete entry to get all the water features on the property working. Inside each is a lot of someday maybe projects. When I feel engaged around I topic, I have a much shorter list of look at. So if I were doing my weekly review and the fountain in my courtyard was on my mind (get all the water features working), I might look at the list and say, “you know…I do want to install an auto fill this week…or…maybe I should fix that slow leak that it has….”
If you have a Zettelkasten like notes system, then I would recommend organizing your Someday Maybe as notes by areas of focus and horizon (in gtd speak). I keep my someday maybe mostly out of my task management system (OmniFocus). In my notes (Obsidian), I have a note for each of my GTD areas of focus. In that note, I have something akin to the Horizon 3 and Horizon 4 equivalent of organization. In GTD, Horizons 3/4/5 transcends areas of focus, but for me, I find having a couple layers above that is specific to the area of focus very helpful. I give that caveat so I don’t get a lot of comments on “that isn’t GTD”.
Different someday maybe lists that you check at different intervals. Some stuff I look at once a month other stuff I only look at once a year. Just put it somewhere where you’ll be confident you’ll see it as often as you need to.
SomedayTasks and projects on my Someday list are ones that I want to do. I will do. I just won’t do them right now. These are inactive items that I am committed to doing but I don’t know when. Examples of Someday tasks/projects are Redecorate the Kitchen, Purchase a New Car, and Vacation Along the Irish Coast by Bicycle.MaybeTasks and projects on my Maybe list are ones that I am not certain if I really want to do at all. I definitely will not do them anytime soon. These are items that I might eventually choose to do but I am not committed to them. Examples of Maybe tasks/projects are Write a Novel, Host a House Concert, and Learn to Speak Mongolian.SoonTasks and projects on my Soon list are ones that I want to do. I will do. I will not do them right now but they will become active in the near future. These are items that are important and will have high impact toward achieving my goals. They have a greater sense of immediacy than items on the Someday list. Examples of Soon tasks/projects are Discuss Estate Planning with my Attorney, Launch New Website, and Migrate Digital Photo Archive to Web Archiving Solution.