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I am having a really hard time sticking to my weekly reviews. I travel extensively and don't 'really' have a home base (I just come home to my parents' house for 4 week vacations) or a set schedule. Either way, I know that the weekly reviews are really important, but I don't know how to 'make'...
Hi All! I work in a computer center and have both administrative and technical tasks that I need to accomplish. Today while playing with MS-Outlook I defined a couple of new fields for my tasks: project and context. I had been using the category as the type of activity (i.e. TODO, CALL,...
Joo, I currently have to finish my last 7 courses (all 80 hour courses) in my own time of my Applied Physics Master's degree and I am procrastrinating the hell out of it, especially on a day when I feel a bit less energetic. Is the GTD method a good system to learn and to help me finish my...
Rereading GTD over summer I realise that I had not been fully defining the outcome of my Projects in my Projects list. So for a trivial example I should probably say Read article by Fred and comment instead of Fred article The complication for me is that I am doing my GTDing on a Palm...
David talks about how, by setting out next actions and capturing everything, you'll close the loop and be able to get tasks out of your "psychic RAM". That works great for things that have a next action. But I often find myself distracted by things that don't, and can't - because there may not...
I'm curious about how others have dealt with the question of what constitutes a project. One of the challenges I've found is determining what the reasonable size of a project should be. Has anyone found any best practices? The literal definition of a project in GTD is such that you can end up...
:rolleyes: anybody care to join in for some exchange on organizing cabinet and sub folders
Hi all, I am actively using the GTD system with my PDA & Outlook. I come to a point these days, that I accumulate a moderate number of NA in my lists, such that it's not as easy to have an overall impression of this "soft-landscape" when I evaluate them from time to time. This makes me...
One area where I feel I might be able to improve my implementation of the GTD process is the management / tracking of small projects. And by 'small', I mean projects that have only 2 to 5 action steps. Usually, I know what all the steps in the process would be, but they need to be performed in...
I would like to have an online discussion group for Ready For Anything, to go through one chapter a week in the course of 2008. I've recently been incorporating reading a random chapter of Ready For Anything into my weekly review, with some thought-provoking results. This reminded me of the...
I have searched and searched but I think I don't have the right search terms. I believe I read in this forum about a website that lets you upload your photos and then turns them into text documents or something like that. If that sounds familia to anyone, I would appreciate the name of...
Gina Trapani published a great article Practicing Simplified GTD for those who struggle with full GTD system implementation.
When I started using GTD (via MyLifeOrganized), I was largely focused on music studies, and I had a large house in the suburbs with lots of rooms. MLO makes it easy for contexts to include other contexts, so I had a nice system that basically gave me contexts for each of the resources I might...
I have been struggling in my life recently as well as with GTD. Previously I was cranking things along very well in life and GTD. My runway was a bit of "big fish in a little pond" syndrome where I got a lot of positive feedback about accomplishments at a daily level. I had a routine I loved but...
I am the office manager for a very small CPA firm (4 employees). I began using GTD in October this year. My boss noticed an increase in productivity almost immediately. But, I feel like I have too many projects, too many next actions, too many lists . . . There are a lot of things I still can't...
I'm managing a small publishing house, and so quite a few of my Projects are book projects that I'm developing from concept through finished product. Each of these is a project on my Projects list, as in "Develop xyz book" but it seems very unwieldy and messy to have all the next actions in context...
I'm interrupting my weekly review to bring you this confession. I don't trust my system. David has often commented in his podcasts that if you're not using the system it is because you don't trust it. I still find myself prioritising and remembering what to do next from memory rather than my...
I'm looking for inspiration to help me settle on a GTD system that works for me. I haven't found it so far, and I feel like I can't move on with my life until I have. I am a big organization freak and I feel like I have to have a GTD system that works for me and makes me feel happy. I was hoping...
During my Weekly Review I very often find the same Next Actions on my @Home list as at the previous Weekly Review. They are real Next Actions. And I want to close the Projects assosiated with them. But when I open @Home list that Next Action doesn't motivate me to do it. I think it would even...
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