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After a meeting, it is common to have pages of notes. Buried in those pages can be projects and next actions. So, sometime after the meeting, a sane thing to do would be to go through the notes and move the projects and next actions into your GTD system. Question is, is the goal to remove the...
Hi I am using Nozbe as my GTD system. If I have an action that is not part project, like "change light bulb in bedroom" how do it record this please?
What advice would you give to the novice?
Hi all, just wondering what your favorite time-savers or general guidelines are in or outside of the GTD system. My most helpful: Store things near where they are used, and together with other items that are used during the same activity. When people ask you for something, ask what date they...
Hello, Can anyone point me to a virtual or personal assistant who knows GTD? I'm in Atlanta, so anyone local to me would be great, but not required. Thanks, Joe
I was wondering what people do who apply GTD to their day to day workflow. Some areas of specific concern are around Delegating and Sharing Tasks with Team Members. What do most of you do? Currently, we use a mix of OmniFocus publishing to BusyCal which syncs to iCal and my team reviews...
Does anyone, save their lists for documentation or historical record?
Hi all, I'm trying to come up with as many useful checklists as I can to stash in my folder, just in case... So far I have only a few basic ones, plus a few more esoteric ones, perhaps: - Daily/Weekly/Quarterly/Yearly Reviews (from GTD and Making It All Work, mostly): actually present as...
Just thought I'd post this link to a blog post discussing some studies in Health Affairs regarding scheduling and task management (I might be twisting slightly the terminology employed!) in medicine... It looks to me like GTD would be very useful in those circumstances! ...
As a work from home professional, I strive for about 12-15 hours of billable work a week minimum to meet my financial goals. This is usually not a problem during the school year, but during the summer when my kids are home from school, I struggle with where to squeeze it all in. In the...
...the old principle to touch each piece of paper (or group of electrons now, I suppose) only once? I know that it really doesn't but it just seems like it might. And how about stacked desks being bad? I'm not sure if it was in GTD or not, but I have read productivity books where the...
I just wanted to post a question to the forum about working off my lists from home. While at work I am generally in control of my workday: I am able to check my calendar and work off incoming work and my lists with relative ease. My home list is quite another problem. The “maintenance of life”...
Suppose I want a new behavior -- something as simple as staying hydrated by drinking three cups of water for every cup of coffee consumed. It isn't really a next action. It isn't really a checklist item. I know there is other software that tracks repetitive actions, but I really don't want...
I made a document that I need to discuss with my boss. I called him to assign the time. He was busy and promised to call me back. I know that he could forget (used to) so I want to be reminded of calling him again but not today. I thought of @Not today context but that would require daily checking....
Other than David's "Getting Things Done," what other time management books do you think are the best for boosting personal productivity?
I'm your typical GTD novice. I have my (electronic) folder setup and it works fine. Things flow out of my Inbox to my Next Action list or a Project folder (or Waiting for, Someday/Maybe, etc.). That's the easy part. What I struggle with is prioritizing everything that is a Next Action. ...
One thing that I'm having trouble wrapping my head around lately is the concept of "contexts". It seemed like such a simple thing, until I started obsessing about the best way to implement the idea :-) My initial understanding was that you have a set of contexts, and you place your "next...
As an individual contributor, I try to get into, and stay in, "flow". As a project lead, I am often pulled out of flow by the demands and many directions of my projects. So, I wonder -- if my next actions are at just the right level, is it possible to move so seamlessly from action to action...
As I understand for each project there should always be a next action, and I am not sure but I think it should be only one? Even if there are various possible next actions that would move the project forward and that don't need to be done in a specific order? So, when that action is done, what...
Hi, I am new to all this, just finished reading the book and I have a few doubts, I was hoping someone can help me with. Whilst it seems clear hot to do the initial collection and processing, throw everything in, process everything in order, I am not so clear on the day to day working of it. ...
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