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Sometimes the action stops at @Waiting. And sometimes you need the result of it before the next weekly review. So how often and when you check your @waitng?

Lately I've noticed that I have Next Actions for my Projects that are not moving forward. My understanding is that the calendar is only for things that must be done at a certain time or on a certain date. It seems if I don't write the Next Action on the calendar, other things on the calendar...

I have a reminder in my calendar for tomorrow to call visa service re:my visas. If they are ready then i need to buy tickets and accomodation for friday. I put both of the reminders into my calendar as well. Is it gtd style?

I feel like I'm off the life wagon. Going to work daily, compleating tasks from action lists, feel no priorities, get something done. Come homw, watch tv, the child is playing on his own with nanny. Is it possible to get back? Any recommendations?

I have collected a note: 'decide what to do with product x development'. Ehat should i do next?

I have on my desk an envelope with some train tickets for an upcoming holiday, but I can't process it. If i create a folder in my a-z reference called "Train Tickets" I just think that I won't recall where I put them when I want them. I could put a reminder on my calender to let me know where to...

I've purchased the Paper Planner and began setting it up today. Can anyone clarify .... I have some projects that occur routinely each year ( tax prep, Christmas tasks, sailboat winterizing, purging year end files, etc). Do these re-occurring projects fall under "Areas of Focus and...

Hello, Having bought and read the book, I'm just beginning to implement the GTD system. I'm not sure how an entry in a Projects list would look, and by extension, how the corresponding next action for the project would be listed in the next actions list. It seems there would be a desire to...

I just had a great Saturday utilizing one of the 4-hour workday guidelines: pick the most important one or two goals for the day, and tackle each one start to finish until it is done! Before deciding on a goal, I looked at my next action list, identified the projects each one was a part of,...

I collected an idea during mind sweep: to sort all books into interesting to re-read and reference. The outcome is a list of books I'd like to re-read. The next action would be to sort out shelf A. The problem is I'm not sure I really want to spend my time doing this boring and possibly not needed...

I have a project, and I really dont know how to describe the NA (in a way that wont make me procrastinate/avoid it). The project is to complete sorting of my paper backlog personally. Presently it is mostly in a single area, and it has been filtered through enough times that most of the rubbish...

Where in the DA paper planner do you capture your areas of focus/responsibility and all the projects associated with those?

I just tried the recommended approach of having an @WaitingFor subfolder under my Inbox. If I send mail that I want to follow up on, I simply cc myself, then put the cc into the @WaitingFor subfolder. This is good because I care about when I sent it, who I sent it to, and what it is about -- too...

Hi All, Any advice welcome. I am working on a big marketing project (1 years, multiple team members). I have listed it as a project in GTD projects list and then proceeded to create a plan. My plan (which is constantly evolving) tries to break things into sub projects for different people, but...

Hi, are there any booksellers using GTD in the forums who might want to share some of their experiences? Thanks!

This is a simple, perhaps silly question, but I'm curious how people will answer it. What do you do when you've emptied your inbox, finished your weekly review, harmonized your horizons of focus, have open time and no distractions... ...but you don't want to do anything on your lists?

Every available space in my office is taken up with many boxes of reference materials which not in any organized fashion.---so no room to add any additional reference materials and need to figure out how to review and organize the back-log. My two drawer lateral file of active information is now...

I'm a consultant. I work with a number of different clients, on a number of different projects. Each client will have its own set of tools for tracking progress on various tasks. This might be a wiki, a spreadsheet, a ticketing system, or a kanban or other card board. To take a real example,...

Yesterday, I saw a demo of Dragon speech-recognition software. The most obvious application that comes to mind is capturing thoughts during my daily commute. Generically, we are talking about capturing spoken words. This could be done with a simple recorder. The next step up is to have spoken...

While processing my emails to zero, I often have mutliple emails containing articles or links to web site articles related to my profession. Since there's no way of knowing whether the email will take less than 2 min. to do (read) I can either stop processing and read, taking my chances on the...