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I was always taught that project is something that has a defined endpoint (eg refurbish kitchen). However, it seems to me that some things which are not strictly projects, in that they don't have defined endpoints, might also be complex multi-step things, and would fit well into the "projects"...

List, I'm new to GTD and am trying to integrate it into my life in the legal profession. We have in excess of 100 individual clients. At this point, I have maintained a "client list" calling it a project list. As each case is different in what is sought, not to mention the different deadlines in...

Hi all, One of my challenges is that I am a highly curious person. My role allows and indeed, even encourages this. However it means that I have times where I become unproductive where my curiosity goes overboard. Has anyone needed to deal with this themselves? If so, what tips do you...

Hey guys and gals i'm just wondering how other people name there long term plans that are more then 5 years away ? Right now i've just got: "5 Year Plan - 2017" or should it be "2017", or just "5 Year Plan" ? Like do YOU base it on a particular year ? or just think about it in terms of 5 years...

I am intending to implement GTD in the extremely near future, and have been giving a lot of thought to exactly how I'm going to do it. After reading the book and browsing through some of the posts on these forums, it strikes me that there are infinite variations on the basic system, and I need to...

Well, I've just read the GTD book, and I have to say it sounds like it makes a heck of a lot of sense. I plan to do the big sweep of all my current stuff into a GTD-style system in the time between Christmas & New Year when I hope things will be nice and quiet in the office. I have just one...

I have been dabbling in GTD for the last couple years. I am a paper planner girl (though I tried hard to use Droid apps for GTD). For some reason I have never fully implemented.......as in I don't do a consistent enough or complete enough weekly review, my physical and electronic inboxs are both...

If I want to write one post on each of two blogs every week and use that time for exercise on the other three days of the work-week . . . and I want to do this for an indefinite period of time (i.e., there is no "end," making it difficult to define these things as projects), what are the best ways...

I've been re-reading "Making It All Work" and came across this passage: "The more direct between our actions and the most elevated horizon, the more it would be a priority--at least in substance. In other words, the more you know that the action you are taking is the best thing to be doing to...

Check out an article I posted, which talks about how I employ Toodledo along with GTD concepts to put a harness around daily data overflow. See if this could help you simplify your life: http://blog.milehighcode.com/2011/12/my-personal-information-management.html

Hello! David recommends in his book to set up a context @calls. This allows us to get a list of all phone calls to take very quickly. Great so far. I set up different contexts for important persons I deal with regularely. If I have to talk to such a person I set up an action like "Discuss the...

What do you think about using gtd without action management for someone who is new?Could this work well? Or would lead to bad habits? Basically the person would implent all non actionable data management practices and use projects but without managing any actions, contexts, due dates and etc....

Project - rnd media consumption Next action - brainstorm Context - ipad Project - written xyz article Next action - work from project support Context - ipad high energy What do you think about next actions such as brainstorm and work from project support? Are they real next actions?

I am using GTD in my life and I really enjoy it. The biggest deficiency that I have so far is trying to use it to install new habits in my life. An example of this is that I am a software developer and I use the same piece of software ever day. I know I could become a more efficient developer if...

I'm new to GTD. I always like to use the system as the inventor of the system. I was trying to search the forum to find out David Allen answers to the following questions but didn't find anything: 1. When David does his actions? Between meetings? All day and night or he limits his doing time?...

Do you open your next action list (except for Agenda) at meetings? If you don't it means that context lists works only in situations when you are alone. When working at office, you need to find a place where you are on your own to start working off your lists?

How to correctly formulate a context name? For example, what is a better context: 1. @Car or @Listen_to_podcast or @iPhone? 2. @iPhone or @Call, @SMS, @iPhone_Email? 3. @Mac or @Write_email, @Draft_ideas etc?

I have read the book many times and am now following the implementation guide that I have purchased from this site. I am planning on using omnifocus - I think I remember that there was a similar simple guide to setting omnifocus up specifically for gtd but I can't find it - does such a guide exist?...

If you have a big project do you break it down into smaller sub-projects? If so how to you track / manage these. Presumably you can have parts to a project that can be done at the same time as other parts