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I'd like to present a small souvenir for my dentist. The present is bought. I want to do it when I have free time that's enough to drive there. I'm not sure what context to use here to remind me of that. I'd like that to be at home, at office or at anywhere I have a enough large free block of...
This has probably been discussed before so I apologize if this is redundant but I have searched and cannot find the answers I am looking for. I am very anxious to start GTD and have read the book but I have not started yet. I am having a problem with how to get started, in other words, what...
The question's for those who use paper systme. As I know If you use a paper planner you have one page for each @ context. How do you choose a next action if the situation allows you to choose from multiple contexts? For example, while you in the office, you should open @Office, @Call, @Computer...
First, let me say I will be very appreciative of any input and I thank you in advance for reading the following long explanation. Having reduced my job to very part-time hours, I am undertaking two really big projects. I would be grateful for suggestions on how to break down these projects and...
I would appreciate hearing about the experiences of people who have gone to Road Map after implementing GTD on their own. What was helpful? How did it impact your practice? Beyond the motivating and energizing feelings that people usually experience in personal growth and development seminars,...
I am working on a project and the NA requires gathering information from a colleague who will be unavailable for 3 weeks. Where is the best place to shove this NA? I don't deal with this person frequently enough to warrant an AGENDA list with her. My instinct is to drop the work request in my...
I'm implementing the GTD system at home, and so far it's working really well. But I'm coming a bit unstuck at work. As a journalist, I have to maintain a scrupulous notebook. That means a consecutive, chronological log of all my interviews. As it's in shorthand, that means it is a challenge to...
Hi, just wondering if any one puts their projects into the corresponding catagories? (filtering 10,000ft by 20,000ft). my project list is growing to well over 150 items, and seems to be more than a little bit intimidating. It also seems that a lot projects on my list are connected in someway to...
I go from system to system in my implementation of GTD. I mean in a week too. Sometimes I last a month w a planner, but something "goes wrong" and something seems it could be better and I get inspired and go to another Planner, notebook, Moleskin, 69 cent notebook, something I find online,...
I have a question that I would like to bring to the forum. Now, I know that I have often chastised folks here for being non-canonical (not exactly by the book) when it comes to methods and implementation- and I apologize for that before bringing my question forth. Here goes: I have noticed...
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After long Russian holidays I decided to slightly change my GTD system :rolleyes: First, I removed all cross references between Next Actions and Projects. Second, I changed the style of Project name. It used to be something like ABCCOMPANY PROJECTNAME. Now it's a real GTD style: Conclude a treaty...
Hello, Thanks to GTD I take much more time to think about my actions. When reflecting the execution and the result of my actions, I get a lot of ideas about how to improve the execution and result of the action next time. For example during/after a meeting I have ideas about how to...
Hey folks, I've been using GTD for a couple of years now. Right *now* I need to define a bunch of task / todo category names for my work laptop. (It doesn't sync with my personal stuff, and that's OK, btw.) Anyway, I'm sorely tempted to leave the '@' sign off the beginning of each category...
I'm still not clear on what the GTD standard is for when to spawn off a new task. GTD N/A are supposed to be concrete and widget-like, so a valid task could be "writeup notes from 1/1/07 meeting." However, while writing up the meeting notes, lots of next actions may occur, e.g., "update the...
I feel like I’ve finally been able to design a system that works for me. I’ve debated about going hi-tech vs. low- tech and I think getting lost in between those things left a lot of holes in my GTD’ing. So a few weeks ago I finally cracked the code, and what I present here is what I feel is my...
An important part of the GTD is using lists/checklists. These are checked through during the weekly review to trigger actions and projects. DA mentions these as "recipes of potential ingredients for projects, events, and areas of value, interest and responsibility." I've realised recently that...
During my second weekly review -what a sense of quiet begin to influence! - I had some trouble in managing the several emails:I try to explain better to receive, if possible, the best suggestions. I had about 70 emails in Inbox, so I started to read them and move in @action @waiting for. For...
Dear GTDers, As a relative newcomer to GTD I felt compelled to write my first post to the forum due to the rather strange affect it has had on me. I first read GTD about 8 months ago- thought it was great and immediately implemented about 50% of it which gradually reduced to about 10% by x-mas....
Maybe a stupid one but... I'd like to experience pleasure when looking at myself in a mirror :) I thought I need at least three projects to fulfill that: sunbathe regulary, go in for bodybuilding and fitness. First, I think I need an outliner to keep them all together under "experience pleasure...
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