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I have a very basic question and hope you experts won't consider it too juvenile. Although I know most of you use PDAs and other electronic equipment, I'm still on the "paper plan" and don't know where to put my NAs. I know the system doesn't call for a to-do list but without one I lose my...
Hi, I've just read GTD over the last month and have been trying to implement the system. I identify and capture my desired outcomes (projects), and capture my Next Actions. When I'm in the middle of doing one of my Next Actions, a part of my mind is worrying if I'm doing the right next...
I successfully managed a career after college. For a variety of reasons, I'm now starting over. From scratch. In many respects, and certainly financially. As a writer and journalist, my mind is inherently built to "spin," generating countless loops -- unfortunately, the majorty of these loops have...
Dear people, I decided to write in here to ask for help. After write in my journal for more than an hour about my problems, and start my problems in place and discover they where in other, I decided to call for HELP. I have been doing GTD for a little now, recently I got GTD Fast and that...
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Does anyone have experience with the Logitech IO Personal Digital Pen? I have always been interested in a better way to capture notes. I still find that pen and paper is the best way to collect data, but then it needs to be typed into eletronic form. Writing into my Palm doesn't cut it, I don't...
Hi, I've just read GTD and have already noticed an increase in productivity and a decrease in stress. One thing I'm struggling with is the following. I spend periods of up to several hours each day deeply immersed in what I'm working on (which is programming stuff, but it could be anything...
I have tried to use a tickler as described in GTD in the past, but I have come across a problem that I have yet found addressed. Lets say I want to call a potential customer back in 2 weeks to follow-up on a conversation.... But, something comes up prior to that (customer calls me to say YES!!)....
I recently posted the below question to the Ready4Anything group but I thought that I might get a little more response here: I've been re-listening to my GTD Fast CDs for the last week and Sunday morning on my way to church I heard Disk 5 Track 4 and I just listened to it over and over. In...
I'd like to hear how people manage all their online identities and the resulting proliferation of user IDs and passwords. How do you balance convenience and security? Do you have a system for changing your passwords? Do you frequently use the same user IDs and passwords in different...
After the discussion about the "most useful" things in GTD turned up a lot of info, I'll turn this around for a round of the toughest, hardest thing about GTD. Helpers with these are, of course welcome and wanted. So, without further ado, I'll start. 1. The weekly review - No surprise, but...
Greetings, 1. Would anyone be able to direct me to a "for dummies" approach for backing up outlook data (including the gtd processed data) on my home pc in case the hard drive suddenly fails. 2. Furthermore, if I was looking to use a notebook pc in the field and I wanted to be able to "synch...
OK I'm brand new here and am desperate for a way to organize my job. This place looks promising. But here's my dilemma: although in management/admin, I am also a veterinarian. I can NEVER ignore my phone because it could be a medical emergency, and that emergency can change the course of my whole...
The responses above are all really rich, so this may add little if anything. Long before I ever heard of Mind Mapping, I was using various graphic organizers as a way of collecting and developing my thoughts, arranging facts, etc before writing a first draft or moving from one draft to the next...
There's an interesting article on e-mail overload in Salon.com today (July 16). The author talks about innovative new e-mail programs being developed that will have search capabilities, so they can eliminate the need for creating folders to sort e-mails into. That would be a different approach,...
I have the opportunity to attend a 2 day GTD seminar with David presenting; as well, I have just bought his book. Money is an issue right now, so I am in conflict about attending the seminar - solely due to the cost. I would love to hear your insights about those of you who have implemented GTD...
Do you have a reading project with each book being as a next action? I have composed a couple of reading lists that I keep in my project list. Those two lists are essentially fiction and non-fiction. I have about 30 books in each list. Now, I do not usually plan how long it is going for me to read...
I used to have a love-hate relationship with lists. Here's why. Scenario 1: I know that I am going to go grocery shopping tomorrow. I make a mental note to buy some plastic forks for my desk at work. Tomorrow comes. I go grocery shopping. I forget to buy forks. Lesson: Alway make a...
One of the things that happens is I'll get an email that I can respond to when I have completed a task that I've already created. Perhaps it's a second person asking me about something that somebody else already asked about. When I got the original email I Action'd it so I'd do the work and then...
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