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I'm new to GTD, but understand the importance of spending (several days) trying to creat the right structure before Processing my Collected items. I see the flaws in David's original approach when using Outlook. The approach shown here appears to work well. ...
I've been keeping track of company sales in my project list but I can't find the best way to word the project title or list the successful outcome. I can't guarantee that the customer will commit, but I want to track where I am at with them which could be setting up a demo, sending a packet or...
I recently read a book called The Productivity Toolkit by Len Merson. In it, he recommends a blank template for a project sheet that prompts one to answer a few important questions for each new project, such as due date, start date, and a few others. I remember someone here posting a similar...
David recommends to divide the process, i.e. Collection and Processing. Does it mean that when I have a "stuff" coming on me I just put it into "In" for later Processing? If so let's imagine my boss passes by and delegates me to do something. I write this into my PDA as a NA into some of the...
Two kinds of tasks (I think) go on the hard landscape: deferred tasks (you can't start until that date) and tasks that must be done on that date or they're not relevant anymore. Both types of tasks still have a context. How do you keep the above straight on "your" calendar? thanks!
Hi all, I have been using the Outlook add-on for awhile and realized that I NEVER look at my NAs in the context view, but rather always use projects. I think that the reason for this is that the contexts aren't really relevant for my work style. I pretty much sit at a computer, in my office,...
Maybe that's a stupid question but... David suggests to use intuition to choose a NA to take in the moment. Actually it means that the Projects will be moved based on intuition as well and it means that some of them will be moved, some will be freezed because the others are being moved... Is...
I think a poll could help here but not sure how to create the one... DA says that today's professionals have about 200 NAs in the system. I have now about 70. What do you have? Do you think it's easy to navigate and choose between 200 NAs even divided by 5-6 contexts (means 40 NAs in each!) ...
Somewhere, I read about a GTD-related matrix that had four quadrants: The Victim Crazy Maker The Commander The Compulsive Has anyone seen this in an image that I could download. Was about to draw up something simple for myself, and wanted to know if anyone knew if it'd already been drawn...
This was published in the London Times yesterday suggesting that coaching is a scam. http://tinyurl.com/bs4sb I'm not sure I agree that it is. Any thoughts from people who use coaches.
I have 8 NA's in my @Computer. One is approx 5 min, three 10 min, two 15 min and two 30 min. When you use Context,Time,Energy,Priority concept how do you choose NA's to act on now? Let's say you have 45 min till the next hard landscape action. What would you choose: one big action or a few small? ...
Before GTD, I was trying to keep everything in my head. Now, most of the time, I write things down, and I start to like it. Still I want to improve my note taking skills, specially during meetings, but also while working on projects. I've tried using One Note or Evernote, but I now prefer using...
Attended Roadmap in San Francisco last week and I thought I would share with the forum my top take-aways from the event. Of course everyone who went probably got something different, but this is the seminar that I went to. I've been doing GTD for about a year now and there are some key things...
Hello, does anyone know how to in excel format cells that have #DIV/0! to a blank without using the ISNA command? Thank you
The Roadmap is coming to Los Angeles and I am thinking of going. I am new to this GTD stuff this week actually and my book is coming from Amazon. Do you guys think that the Roadmap is helpful without completely reading the book? I dont want to miss an opportunity of going to this event as well....
Going through the GTD book i found it somewhat unclear on how to deal with with daily things that you want to get done but dont necessarily feel like they are absolute callendaring commitments necesarily. Examples: Practice one unit my piano program each day Do one unit of my language course...
I have decided to use a plain-text system on a pda, and using the calendar as the calendar, the voice recorder as the inbox (and a few other programs, like contacts for reference materials). So far I dont have any real problems with it, the only optimization I want to make is to some how...
In this thread, jpm mentioned speed keys as being a good productivity enhancer. Since I'm a command-line sort of girl anyway, I did a little digging tonight. Though many of you might already know this, I found something useful that I thought I'd share. To create a keyboard sequence that creates,...
Is there any method or recommendation on how to setup the right Contexts? I used to have "standard" contexts like @Agendas, @Call, @Computer, @Errands, @Waiting, @Home, @Office. But sometimes I feel that they're not right and I think maybe I should create something different that would be connected...
I just came across Terry Miller's amazing set of notes on the GTD Roadmap workshop here: http://pointreyes.net/notes/gtd/ One of my favorite hightlights is this one: I find great value in this quadrant map. I can see when I've been in each of the 4 quadrants! My question: what do you...
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