Superfocus - Mark Forster's been at it again

Hi there.

Mark Forster, author of the Autofocus task management system and its variatons, has now released Superfocus. I have always found Mark's systems very helpful at capturing, and ultimately managing my list of tasks. His systems are generally quite powerful with their dismissal rules, so if there is a task that just sits around and never get's done, it is dismissed, which forces you to get a better understanding of why it seemed important yet you haven't progressed it. The other main benefit to Mark's systems are their relative simplicity.

In the past however, it has sometimes been hard to get the balance between important and urgent tasks right with Autofocus. The first Autofocus system tended to look after the big and important tasks, but didn't handle short notice/urgent tasks well, and the later variants handled recent, urgent tasks effectively, but sometimes they wouldn't steer you back to the older tasks if you were regularly getting new actions.

Mark thinks he has cracked it this time with Superfocus, and from an initial read, I can see how it might work. I'm going to try it, and comment later after I have given it a chance to prove itself.

I won't go over the rules here, I'll let you read them for yourself on Mark's blog. I can understand already however that it will be important to decide which tasks are Column 1 and which are Column 2...

Later.