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I've been using GTD for about 12 years, and have the Weekly Review installed as an ALMOST weekly event...! Where I fall short (not to some external standard, just to my own intention) is in capturing and downloading what's on my mind, both on the fly, and in the context of a more structured "mind...
I am trying to use my outlook calendar for date/time specific hard landscape stuff only. However, I don't know what to do with things like --- "Inlaws will be in town from Sept 10 to Sept 14" (which may have an impact on if/how I schedule my activities and to-do's in that time period.) Right...
What do other people do with completed next actions? I keep mine on an electronic list. When I have done the action I move it to the bottom half of the list below a divider that signifies it is done. I'm interested to know how others are archiving completed next actions, if at all? In some...
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For some reason I have a resistance against doing those things on my NA lists. It seems like I can come up with things I can do that are not on that list and I like to do them more than those NA list items. I think the reason is that from the moment I put something on that list I have to do...
Should I have one long list of projects: serve nice holiday meal present request to Board of Trutees etc... or should I separate them in some way? since they tend to start with verbs, instead of key words, it's often hard to see what is what....
Hi, I've been using GTD for about 2 years now, and use the Outlook plugin (which is great apart from regular conflicts with other Outlook plugins, but hey nothing's perfect ;) I am finding that I have so many hard edges (NA's that I must do today, shown as all day events in my Outlook...
So I have been loving this system and my work production has just about doubled. I have a tickler file, but haven't used it at all. A few things that I see slipping: I'm using my calandar to schedule tasks on certain days...is this alright? I missed a few weekly reviews which put me...
My system has been working quite well for a year now. My weekly reviews often bring me to a mind like water state, I trust my system, and my mind is producing more creative ideas than I can keep up with. I have disciplined myself to put on my current projects list only the projects I'm actually...
Hi all, I'd like to shape my system for this. May I ask for your advice here? For a while, I have considered active projects only as those I would work on (with defined NAs) in the following week (weekly review). However, I think it's better for me to extend it as something I need to get...
I am a University student balancing part time study with full time night work and have been doing GTD for the past 6 months. I have had huge progress and insight in terms of improving my way of working and balancing all the responsibilities in my life. Lately however, I am discovering that my main...
I am fairly new with GTD but Im very happy with it sofar. As I got started ( and a bit excited) I started to write down all these self-managing and self-developement projects. After a while a saw a pattern, som "projects" might be considered projects, whereas some should probably just be called...
It seems like you need the GTD system to plan time todo the GTD system. Wekly review, etc... any comments?
Sometimes, a 'next action' may not be the right way to close a discussion. Sometimes, it might actually be best to leave the discussion open, threads loose and dangling, percolating, lying fallow, unclosed and continuing. Defining a next action is certainly neater. So, how do you decide when to...
I'm organizing a RTP (North Carolina)-area group focused on personal productivity, especially GTD. We plan to meet occasionally for lunch or dinner to get to know each other, and discuss GTD and related topics. If you're in the area and would like to meet other GTD'ers, please join us at:...
I know that this is little art and little science, but I would like to know from people who are making the system work for themselves, how they decide what number of n/as is right. for various contexts. Viewing GTD as a task managing system (per Kwems in another thread), it occurred to me that...
Sorry, I know this could be somewhat controversial, but I think we should face this openly, as it's a very important issue. We all agree that GTD is a great boon to one's productivity and general well-being. What if that assumption is dead wrong? What if implementing GTD blunts your...
Hi everyone. I read the GTD book last week while on vacation. It all seemed so simple. Now I'm back at the office trying to implement what I learned, but I'm not making much headway and I'm just going in circles. I use Outlook and sync to a Palm Treo. I have the Palm Plus program from Franklin...
Hi there! For starters: Besides getting things done, GTD is so much fun. Hooray, now comes the question: When you have a very big project and you decide to create several subprojects to make the work better manageable... Do you still create next actions for the main project? If you do...
Hello, Noticed something recently and not sure if it's to do with my first year of GTD or maybe it's middle age creeping up on me! My GTD system is working fine, always have a capture device at hand, can't remember the last time something slipped through the net and all loops are closed! ...
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