Examples
The following is an example of a simple TOTE: When driving a car and looking for the appropriate turn off.
- Test - is this the turnoff? - No
- Operate - keep driving
- Test - is this the turnoff? - No
- Operate - keep driving
- Test - is this the turnoff? - Yes
- Exit
(this only finds the correct turnoff, and would be embedded in a larger TOTE)
A TOTE can also be nested within other TOTEs, for example: Cooking a meal:
- The top level TOTE for "testing if meal is cooked" is:
- Check meal—leave a while—recheck meal - take out of oven.
- As part of the "leave a while" part, there is a nested TOTE:
- Check 5 minutes is up—wait a while—recheck 5 minutes is up—exit (ie "leave a while" subgoal is achieved)
Read more about this topic: T.O.T.E.
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