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I had a flash of insight into my own "peace of mind", or more accurately, what disrupts it. Here's what I think the problem is, and I'd love to hear what other think. I think the only path to peace for me is to not have anyone who can call me out for something I committed to, but that I haven't...
Hi, I've come to the conclusion recently that I need to reorganise my GTD system, since some of my current Projects are probably actually 'Areas of Responsibility' That way I should be able to get more of a focused project list with two main benefits; reducing the amount of time my weekly...
Dear all, I'm currently a research scientist in academia experimenting with GTD, and while I can see the obvious benefits for certain aspects of my everyday working/private life, I am having trouble applying GTD to other aspects specific to my profession. I use a simple circa notebook to...
I would like for the completed tasks to disappear in the Outlook Today view. Anyone have an idea if this is possible and how?:confused: Thanks
Hi All I'm new to GTD and am in the process of implementing it with Outlook 2007 and ClearContext. However, where I'm a bit stuck is NextActions. I understand that each project should have a next action to move it forward. What I'm doing right now is creating a Task in Outlook. Naming it "...
Please moderators/administrators - could you enable the history feature? At present unfortunately it does not work... There is one thread in particular I would like to read - it's Mark Williams's thread on integrating GTD with self-improvement: http://www.davidco.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7681 ...
Hi - I'm a newbie still trying to get the basics of GTD down, and I find the process of separating items confusing. I'm trying to figure out, after trashing, doing 2-minute items, and delegating actions, what I am left with. Here's my understanding: reference (non-action items) someday...
Trying to get my head around the best way to store Projects and Sub Projects on a Palm. I am using MindManager for my main organisation of Projects. Which contains 6 main projects. I view Mindmanager on my laptop though this is copied to my Palm as well, just in case I want to do a review...
I am starting over with GTD after being off the system for awhile. I had great success with it while I was working but I have been off work on a maternity leave to care for our first baby and lots of things have fallen by the way side. Now that the baby is older, I am really wanting to get back...
Hi, I'm just getting started with GTD. Where do you keep your tickler file? I am imagining that I will have more use of a tickler file at home, but I spend most of my time working at an office. I'm not sure where to keep it, given that I'll need it mostly at work during the work week but at...
Ok, so I have cleaned my head, everything is sorted out according to GTD method. The hard part is to actually start doing actions and not play around with GTD lists or other distractions. In the 'Eat The Frog' book there is an excellent quote: "Failures do what is tension relieving while...
Has anyone read Dan Millman's Peaceful Warrior books? I read the original classic (that was a flop movie last year) several years ago and Dan was kind enough to send me a copy of his most recent book, "Wisdom of the Peaceful Warrior," to review on my blogzine. I dismissed the book as rather...
I am using the outlook plugin and I am trying to understand how to use Projects and Subprojects. I manage 4 different businesses and would like to be able to show which business each one of my projects is related too. I was thinking about making my projects in the plugin Business 1, Business 2,...
Now that I'm starting to trust my system a little more, I'm getting good at capturing ideas rather than going and exploring them immediately. As GTD predicts, I have freed my mind of worries, and become far more creative as a result. This is a problem. I have captured 353 ideas in the past...
I use entourage for GTD, and the upcoming version can sync with exchange. Can you view all your tasks and projects on the web from this?
I have simple text file for To do list. When I have executed next in turn task - should I delete it right now?
I'm rebooting my GTD for 2008 as a kinkless GTD (Now that I'm a Mac user and since OmniFocus is still alpha-beta), and things are good except for two sticking points I've had with GTD since the get go: 1. Time needed. Given that I have x number of minutes in a day, should I not be tracking how...
I've been using Getting Things Done for a couple or years now, but there is one thing that I still don't know how to deal with. David Allen recommends "keeping an inventory of things that need to be done that require very little mental or creative horsepower." I use OmniFocus for managing my...
In the course of your time, how to deal with certain ambigious attention items that are things that you think about but not really things that are actionable. For instance, you have an idea such as, "The Earth isn't Flat", or "I am happiest when I remember to think of X in a stressful situation"....
GTD suggests choosing from your list of next actions based on, among other things, your energy level. This is good -- but I believe it overlooks a major perspective. Given time to reflect, your energy rises to the task you are faced with. If you plan your next day at the end of every day, then...
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