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I've been reading about and slowly starting to follow GTD for about 6 months now. I'm a bit confused about organizing my projects. I'm a software engineer - so often a project contains subprojects as well as requests. We are a small team of 3-5 people. For example: Project: Complete...

I remember hearing at one point (before I was good at capturing things!) that David Allen's new book would be about his various "productivity principles." Can anyone official with Davidco confirm/deny this information? Any chance of some advanced peeks at the book's contents before its scheduled...

I am curious--what challenges have you had to overcome to implement GTD and what did you do to overcome them? Also, what benefits have you accrued as a result of GTD? Any surprises along the way? For me--the sheer volume, boredom with going through stuff and getting fatigued and getting...

I am looking for a good site that will give population data for US cites and communities in an easy to use and understand format. Having business data as well would be even better. Anything out there?

There seems to be a lot of people who use a plain notebook to do GTD. Can I have specifics on how to do this? Does your project list go in the notebook? How do you separate out the contextx? Are you continually flipping through the notebook? It seems like you could run out of space for say...

Anybody have any stories about getting work teams to use GTD?

Hi Folks, Sorry if this is a dumb question but after scanning the boards, I'm still not clear. I'm a casual ACT! user ready to make the PDA jump. I'd prefer to start off in the "right" direction and avoid a mid stream jump down the road if possible. My question (and yes, I realize it's...

The Productivity Principles newsletter is a great resource - I love the quotes that provide such thought-provoking material! Unfortunately I only have a few of the more recent editions. Since the newsletter has a free to copy and distribute policy does anyone know where I can find the back...

There is a free GTD course that starts tomorrow on the Barnes and Noble website!

I wonder if any of the rest of you out there have found it somewhat difficult to use the Palm (or whatever other PDA you use) to collect, process, organize, and do. I find a disconnect in the actual busyness of the day and the way I refer to my tasks in palm. For whatever reason, I dont like...

This is a trick I adopted some time ago and have found it to be helpful. I thought I'd share it and see if anyone else does likewise or can suggest further refinements. In addition to my context lists (@Home, @Computer, @Errands, etc.) I have a list called !Today. The use of the "!" rather than...

Hi guys First time post here, although I have lurked for a long long term and gleaned valuable insights. I have a question concerning Outlook. Is it possible to purge expired appointments i.e. one's that have long gone. I synch between my Ipaq and my PC and would like to purge old...

Hi Folks, In the Journal section of MS Outlook, I'm trying to get it to allow me more room for displaying info on notes and such. Currently, when I call up the journal history on a contact (Activities tab - show Journal) it will give the list of entries for that contact but the info will be...

My question is that I have several events that I need to notifiy certain people if they happen. For example if a certain batch fails then I need to notify a person in our billing deparment of the failure. Anyone have any good suggestions how to keep those sort of items in the GTD system?

Applying GTD to things rather than ideas and I don't know how to begin! My boss (company owner) has offered for me to move from the worst small office in the suite to the best and largest. But, there is one condition--the good office is filled with stuff and she wants me to find places within...

Hello When clearing out one's in-box where does GTD recommend to place items which are actionable "today" but will take longer than 2 minutes? i.e.- It doesn't belong in the "tickler" file because it's actionable today and since it's "actionable" it doesn't go in the general reference file. ...

Hello, I have a question which has been troubling me about GTD and Read/Review. I am a computer professional and hobbyist, and I have a lot of projects that are "Learn Open GL", "Learn Java", etc. These projects have reading material associated with them (Iin order to learn Open GL, I have to...

I was afraid this would happen!! Here's my confession - after feeling great with understanding the concepts of this fantastic approach and setting everything up so it was how i felt 'ready to go' - I got a very very busy spell and it all fell apart. Everything seemed to crash - but the most...