JinnoroGuides · Personal · 6 min read
Plan a move from first box to last
Organize a move into time-based sections, with labels for calls and packing and a Waiting For list for confirmations.
A move has about a hundred tasks, and they arrive in a particular order: calls and quotes early, packing in the middle, keys and boxes on the day, addresses afterwards. The easiest way to keep them straight is to sort by time.
Here you will make one project with four sections that follow the calendar, and three labels, Call, Pack and Waiting For.
Step 1
Create one project with four time sections
Make a project called Move to the new apartment. Add sections: Eight weeks before, Two weeks before, Moving day and After the move. Now every task you think of has an obvious home.
Step 2
Use labels for the kind of work
Add Call, Pack and Waiting For. On a quiet afternoon, open Call and make all your calls in one go.
Step 3
Break big jobs into subtasks
“Transfer utilities” is really three jobs. Open the task and add one subtask for electricity, internet and water. Put a date on the main task, and check off the subtasks as each is confirmed.
Step 4
Add tasks as you remember them
You will remember something at midnight. Press Q, type it with a date, and the right label, and go back to bed.
Step 5
Keep a Waiting For list for confirmations
The moving company, the landlord and the internet provider will all promise to confirm something. Mark those tasks with Waiting For and set a date to check back.
A week before the move, open the project and move anything that is not done into the next section. On the day, check off tasks as you go, and the After the move section becomes your list for the following week. For a trip rather than a move, see planning a trip.
