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How do people use the "active" status

Author	Message
IceHeartX	Posted: Nov 13, 2009 Score: 0 does anyone try to use active in GTD? I'm wondering where it fits?
Proximo	Posted: Nov 13, 2009 Score: 0 I don't use it at all. In fact, I don't use any of the Status options. I simplified Toodledo for GTD and tried to mimic GTD specific Apps/Web Apps. When I first started to use Toodledo. I did use the Status column and did not use "Active". I know some people do. Depends on what makes sense to you.
DaveShep	Posted: Nov 15, 2009 Score: 0 Yes I'm using it with project tasks (ones that have subtasks). I mark these projects as Active, Someday, Delegated. For tasks I use Next Action, Waiting, Hold.
James T	Posted: Dec 10, 2009 Score: 0 Like Dave - I use Active for Projects. I don't use it for tasks. Then you can divide your projects into active and Hold or Someday, etc.
manuelhe	Posted: Dec 16, 2009 Score: 0 I use active if it is part of a project but not the next action.
Vin Thomas	Posted: Dec 16, 2009 Score: 0 I did the same as manuelhe, but I found that almost every task was active. So now I only using "waiting". I star items to move them into my "next actions".
dwb	Posted: Jan 14, 2010 Score: 0 I use "Active" as more of a "Current Action" or "In Progress" status. I actually make use of almost all of the statuses, except for "Reference" (which goes into Evernote or Toodledo notes) or "Canceled" This message was edited Jan 14, 2010.
mike	Posted: Jan 14, 2010 Score: 0 I'm also using "Active" for search purposes. Projects that are open have an Active status. But like others have stated, I'm also trying to keep from making it too complicated, so I only use the "Active" and "Next Action" status fields.
mahmoodadeel	Posted: Jan 17, 2010 Score: 0 I use Active with any task in a project/folder that is not Next Action, waiting for or someday. So basically i enlist all the task in a project as active and pick the first one as next action task.

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