GTD/BASB Templates for Emacs and Org-Mode
- Daily Review Template
- Weekly Review Template
- Monthly Review Template
- Annual Review Template (I don’t usually do these in Emacs, but I’ve included them for the sake of completeness)
As I’ve said on Twitter, I don’t actually necessarily perform these on a chronological basis.
Do you do GTD-style reviews?
The reviews have chronological names but don’t need to be performed on those schedules. Do them when you need reorientation at different levels:
- daily: tasks
- weekly: projects
- monthly: goals
- annual: vision
These are configured as capture templates, but I wrap them with Emacs Lisp functions so that they do things like fetching my most recent calendar data. I then call those functions with a hydra for easy and mnemonic binding. See the sections in my Emacs config on Capture Templates and Reviews for the full context on how I use these.
- New Project Template (see The Org Manual: Template expansion for understanding the elements in this capture template)
- Project Completion Template (I use Yankpad for this so as to be able to insert it at point within a specific project)