Is anyone else interested in sharing how you use IQ, giving as little or as much detail as you are comfortable with? Here are a few things I'm doing with it. I'm also including a simplified list of my grids and how I have them structured. Some current uses:
1. I created a dedicated grid for buying a new home. IQ shines above all other products in applications like this, because you can create as many custom fields as you want to track specific traits that are unique to a project. For instance for this grid I've created number fields to track acreage, days on market, amount, checklist fields for all the traits I want and so on.
2. I created a master grid (first grid so it's easiest to get to) that lists all of my other grids under categories, and launches them via links. This actually works much better for me than trying to find them in the tabs.
3. After waiting years for Amazon to offer a half decent interface for their Kindle app, I finally just decided to manually create a list of all of my Kindle books in IQ. This in turn allows me to treat books like any other task, put them on my to-do list, mark them done once read, and have a nicely organized collection. It also allows me to create links to future books I'd like to buy. Of course all of these things are possible with Amazon, but with IQ it's just so much better.
Here is how my grids are currently grouped under top level items in my grid titled "Master Grid List", each child item is a link that launches the associated grid:
Dashboards
- Personal Dashboard (notes about my filing structure, map views of my workflow routine and so on)
- Professional Dashboard
- Projects List (future projects, objectives, goals etc.)
Life Areas (current projects/tasks related to the main areas of my life, for which I've created a grid for each)
- Health
- Finance
- Etc.
Dedicated Projects (projects for which I create many dedicated fields/columns and therefore dedicated grids, instead of putting them under a life area)
- Home Buying
Lists
- Address Book
- Books
- Lists (lists of anything I want to track, movie collection...whatever.)
Task Grids (NOTHING gets entered in these grids, items show up in them because values were applied to them in other grids. That could include anything, not just task oriented items, but items from the list grids or information grids I want to read or act on)
- Inbox
- Focus
- All Tasks
Information Grids
- Notes (notes organized by subject)
- Reference (clippings organized by subject, using yes/no fields as quasi tags)
- Journal (daily journal)
Value Grids
- Done
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