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Is it appropriate to have the "At Home" list in the same folder with the A.S.A.P. actions if you take your folder to the work office each weekday?

Would be very interested in anyone’s experience: I have tried a number of online task management applications (actually, I think I’ve tried them all) to help with my GTD setup. Some (Todoist comes to mind) are really good for getting perspective, whilst others (Nozbe) are very good at organising at...

Need a suggestion.... I have a project to start this week. The project support material that I will use to initiate is a document saved to my office P.C. desktop. On what list should I write the first action step (reading and extracting relevent points from the material)? Does it go on...

Hey all, I've been wondering about whether I should put deadlines on the calendar. They are basically part of the 'hard landscape' as they are commitments I have made with other people. Usually there can also be a physical action associated with the deadline (i.e. email document to X). How do...

I'm starting to notice that a lot of my Next Actions never seem to get completed. More pressing things always seem to come up. This woudn't be an issue except that all the Next Actions are cluttering up my lists (I suppose this relates to my previous post) which makes it difficult for me to...

I have 41 Next Actions at my @Mac context. I have to choose the most important because my day is only 24 hours, my workday is 9 hours (with lunch and commute), my time with next @Mac action lists is 1 hour daily (the rest are meetings and processing). And completing a Next Action doesn't mean...

I noticed that most to do software diminish the concept of inbox. You jot down things as they come to you, you check them off when you finish them. However, GTD has a process workflow to go through each of them later on. and some may become projects, some may even throw to trash basket, and a...

I've been trying to envision wildly-successful outcomes for my projects lately and while this is a powerful way to generate better ideas, it also usually leads to more work. The envisioned outcome may be more exciting and motivating, but the scope of the project has expanded too. This is making...

I'm somewhat new to GTD, but I'm eager to learn. Hopefully, I don't ask too many dumb questions. I am stuck creating tasks in a few ways: 1. How detailed should a task be? Lets say I want to learn to cook Japanese food. Which one of these is a valid task? find recipes (by looking in...

I own omnifoucs, but oftentimes, I just do things from inbox. If it's a big one, then it would take me longer to finish it. I don't see why I need to process it when I am not doing it. (and for most to-do apps, you just get inbox) so I tried to look answers in his book, David said, it's because...

Can a sales director delegate all his personal direct sales to his staff to free time for other Areas of focus like hiring, motivating and delegated projects control? Or that is not possible for some reason? Please advice.

What do you usually do during the weekend? How does your day go?

I've been using GTD for a couple of years now and would like to read more of David Allen's material. I'm considering the two books Ready for Anything and Making it All Work. Eventually, I'll probably read both but I would like to just select one to begin with so I don't overload myself. After I've...

Has anyone tried it with there teams at work ? I don't mean to review "indivual project" but projects that that everyone is working in together . I personally feel thus could help teams see the big picture better.

I have a "Clear desktop" Next Action under "Organize workspace" Area of Focus. Assumes sorting and deleting documents on my desktop to make it more organized and workable. The project itself is for 4-5 hours taking amounts of documents I have. I can do it all day long or do for 15 minutes and...

I first discovered GTD about a year ago and have been diligently attempting to apply it ever since. I've got a pretty good collection habit now - when a thought occurs to me, I dump it into my phone, and everything physical lands in the inbox at home. I'm also pretty good at processing on a...

Regarding the process of next-action lists for projects: I currently have a context labeled @computer. However, the majority of my work is done at the computer and a decent portion of the other things I do in life are done on the computer as well. As a result, I have a long list of next...

if i have something i want to buy but i dont have the money to buy it yet where do i put that next action while im waiting to get the money, do i put it in someday maybe? thanks in advance for any help

Hi everyone, I've just encountered a huge problem with my Google Calendar. The calendar is my "hard landsape" and sticking to GTD principles this is the place to hold my time- and day-specific actions. The problem when reviewing past calendar data for reporting purposes. There is just too...