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Bare with me on this.....I am frustrated with getting next actions captured and processed. Perhaps it is too much input, maybe not. I am using Outlook 2007 and NextAction! on a Blackberry 9000. My question concerns the use of projects. In my work I will numerous tasks, calls and details...

Let's say that you have 100 items on your Inventory lists ( Calls, PC, Action). When you are working in your office, you feasibly could make a call, finish a PC task, or work on an action item. Does this mean that you will need to review all 100 ( combo of paper lists and PC folders) each time...

I'd like to tackle clearing out and setting up my file folders. My understanding from the book is that there are general reference files in folders labeled by topic and there are action support files. For some projects, there may be multiple folders (eg: for my job search project: marketing...

Someday-maybe keeps defined or undefined stuff? If it keeps undefinded then can I collect notes directly into this folder for future processing?

I have set up my Outlook according to the Outlook whitepaper and have shifted all my „someday/maybe”-lists from “notes” to “tasks”. For now there is a mixture between single tasks (e.g. buy Miltons Paradise Lost) and cumulative tasks, using the "note" attached to a single task (like "to do at...

If so, how are you organizing this in GTD?

Please comment: Planned work is defined. Unplanned is not defined so you need to Collect and Process it in order to compare with Planned work priority. You can define on the fly or schdule time for Defining daily. Anyway there's no sence in doing Unplanned work if it is not Defined and compared...

I´d like to share some of my attempts to apply GTD to my work as a teacher. Each year I have about 10 classes. In each class there are about 7 mayor themes to treat. For years I fought with an increasing amount of paper-based information. Then I tried this: Each class is treated like a...

When you have an action item on a project list that you know will take a chunk of time, for example...purge general files (2hrs), do you write it on your action list and then schedule it onto your calendar or during your weekly review of projects, do you just place it on the calendar for the...

Hello guys, few months ago I turned myself from a 9 to5 employee in to an entrepreneur and working on my venture. Off late I found an uncanny thing all my GTD lists are the lists of lifestyles i.e. spending, enjoying, and having luxuries etc, doing hobbies, painting, music, book reading, watching...

Okay, so I've captured everything that has my attention. Now I have lots of list staring me in the face. When, where, and how does prioritizing play a role in your daily and weekly planning? If I simply choose to work on what has my attention, how will I ensure that deadlines and the most...

I'm just in the process of starting to outline my horizons of focus. It'd be helpful to see some good examples. Can anyone point me to some online? I've done some searching and all I can find is articles explaining the horizons of focus, rather than actual examples. Thanks, Jill

I noticed that some of my Project Support Files for big ongoing projects that take long time to complete become more like Reference files, and I end up not knowing where to look for what. I need some clear-cut criteria to distinguish those two.:-? Thanks

Currently I am in multiple networking meetings on a weekly basis. In the past I kept all my notes in spiral bound notebooks. Having read David's recent book, I am not transferring any action items from my meeting notes into my planner. Sometimes, there are other notes recorded that I may want to...

The way I learn Getting Things Done could be described as PBL -- I have a specific real life problem, I decide what should be learned to address that problem, then I do it. And voila -- I am using GTD. I am running into the PBL (problem-based learning) approach elsewhere, as well. Will you...

Hi, I get a lot of calls and ideas when in the car but need a good form of capturing them. My ideal would be something like an iPhone app that I can press one button to record what I want, and then press again to stop recording which will then transcribe the message into text and email it to...

I started this other thread less than a week ago: http://www.davidco.com/forum/showthread.php?11627-Procrastinating-All-Day-Long-%28Kinda%29-Not-Getting-Started-Til-Late-Night See, in this previous thread I wrote about not getting things done at all during the day and thing scurrying to get it...

I recently downloaded the unabridged audiobook from Itunes. Anyone know where or how I can obtain the diagrams that are mentioned as being included? I would really appreciate it if anyone knows. Thank you!

Wow, I had a great time at the Making It All Work seminar in D.C. I have been using GTD for several years now, but had not yet attended a public seminar. The setting was beautiful --- a riverfront glass-paned room on the 24th floor. Being with other people who are working toward the same objectives...