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I felt owerhelmed. And decided to move all the projects to Someday/Maybe category untill I feel energized to continue moving them leaving the most important two. But I found out that many of them have a corresponding @Waiting For next action. On one hand It means they are not on my side but on the...
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I am interested in any feedback regarding the books 'Take Back Your Life' by S McGhee and 'Total Workday Control' by M Linenberger. Are one or both of these books worthwhile? Is the information and techniques much different between the two? Has anybody tried the Outlook add-in from Clear Context?
I am trying to install papersoft 9 after installing a pirate paperport 11 version of papersoft it says internal error 2723 newproductfound I have uninstalled all the files using tools have got a secure antivirus and spyware, it is finding a program that is left behind from paperport 11 can anyone...
I used to have a nice leather planner but switched to a Palm Vx a few years ago. (I know it's old but hey it works so why upgrade?) Eight reasons: 1.) I have atrocious handwriting. :-) 2.) Writing (for me) is somewhat painful, but I can type at about 50wpm. 3.) Transferring data from my...
I have a question for those using GTD in a managerial position or even in a partnership situation where you are responsible for your own work and also at least liable for the work of others. I am starting to feel comfortable with GTD for my own areas of focus, however I am not understanding how...
Thank you for the message. I have no agenda, other than trying to understand what GTD is all about, and which parts of it work, and which parts of it don't work. Surely GTD could benefit from some scrutiny, and subjecting it to proper testing done by independent sources in various accredited...
Hi there! I'm just about to start my implementation of GTD after I've read the book twice. But as I wanted to beginn some questions came up... 1. What is the best implementation order? Filing system first? 2. I'm still at school so what kind of filing system (drawer, banker boxes,...) do...
I am very new to GTD and have not started using it yet but I am trying to get everything ready to get started. I get a lot of voice mails daily that require follow up that day or the next day. I think I recall seeing something that said you should treat these the same as any other item in your...
First, thanks to everyone who regularly posts here -- reading over your ideas and experiences with GTD has helped me move from owning the book to actually implementing the system for myself. So far I've captured my stuff, generated a list of projects, and have identified next actions for each of...
I've been thinking about ways to improve my use of this section, and I was just wondering how people use this section, and how useful they've found it. It was a section I was using fairly well at the beginning of my implementation, but I find I've largely just moved the items on the person-based...
My staff asked me to give a presentation on GTD. It's scheduled now for Friday. It looks like a need a presentation in Power Point to go through all the concepts. Can anyone help with some ready for use materials? Regards, Eugene.
A couple of weeks ago I got frustrated hunting for the phone calls to make on my @Office list on the Palm Desktop. Since I can only make my work related calls from work, I put them on that list instead of an @Calls lists or creating an @Calls - Office list. I tried something new: when I created...
I have several nice matching wooden file cabinets that I'll be keeping. Unfortunately, they setup for pendeflex hanging folders. Is there an insert to handle normal files that's available for purchase? I've looked at Staples and Office Depot, with no luck. TIA, Bryant
I haven't been unsuccessful locating previous topics on this subject probably because ADD is also 'add' so it pulls up 500 topics. I've been working to implement GTD and some of my family is considering make the change also. We are in the process of trying to determine if one of my family...
I've been impressed with the ideas in GTD but after going around in circles trying to optimise it to my circumstances have come to a problem. I currently have @home, @office, @call, @computer, @school, etc. set up on my Palm. However, I have the option most days of working from home, or going to...
I was looking through Getting Things Done book and never found any reference to duration of the Next Action. Here, in the Forum, a few times I saw that Next Action had duration of 5-15 minutes. How do you look at your Next Actions: do you assume any duration (read one page or read three pages) or...
It looks like I have a brain dump today :) I mentioned that I tend to do more Next Actions connected with the most important projects. As such do you think it will ease the process if I put project name in the beginning of the Next Action line? For example, Re-energize the body - go for a work out...
WR analysys showed that all Work, Health and some Personal Development project were moving. Especially the most important projects for me. That great! Only two projects didn't move any further, both are read-related (Spanish and Sales theory but I'd like to move them anyway). Does it mean that...
Hi everyone, I have a project on my project list that says: Organize Digital Photos Basically, I've got a bazillion digital photos on my home computer. Some are backed up, some are not. Some have been printed, some have not. Many need to be deleted. It's really just a mess. And more...
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