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I have just read GTD and am keen to implement it. I am struggling to get 'Next Actions' clear in my head. I can go through and collect all the items that need doing. My problem is whilst doing that I come up with a number of actions per project. For each project I seem to have mulitple actions...

Just wondering if anyone else uses GTD to reach financial goals. I've had less success here than in other areas. I would like to save up a 6-month emergency fund. At first, my next actions are easy. 1. Open a savings account 2. Deposit $100 into the savings account 3. Ask HR to...

Hello all, I'm not sure I follow how to run this system. I really enjoyed dumping out all the crap in my life onto bits of paper. All of the 2 minute jobs are done. 1) What I want to know is that if you have a "project" and you do the next action. What happens then? Do you write it on a...

So I originally read (or listened to the abridged audio book) for GTD a year or so ago and tried to implement it using Remember the Milk. I didn't have the finest grasp on the theories involved, so it didn't really help me all that much. I finally started taking a second look and read most of the...

I currently use Google Calendar and a moleskine as my GTD setup. Been tweaking this setup for quite awhile and im slowly turning it into my perfect system. Alas I've come to a bit of a stumbling block I can't seem to find a way around. Managing reoccurring tasks which normally have to be...

Background: I have been trying to incorporate GTD principles for several years. This all started for me with a great program on my PSION hand held computer called "mentor" ...thats another post). My system has evolved several times as the nature of my work and life changed. I am now at a key...

I am trying, again, to implement GTD. I have tried unsuccessfully a number of times. One thing I learned in past attempts is that I pay a lot more attention to my lists if I use a paper system for everything except my calender and contacts (smartphone) because I have to think more about them when...

Hi, Am starting out and am confused. I want to use Outlook2007 to manage everything, it seems to make the most sense. Some questions I would appreciate feedback on: * How many projects do you have on the go? I could envisage 30 or 40, and that's going to get cumbersome to look at in...

My company is launching a book club, and GTD is our first read. Does anyone have any resources that could be used for our discussion? I think our conversation will come easily, but I would like to have some points to use as a place to start.

I've mentioned in the past that I'm fine tuning my system, and a couple of people have asked for details on the latest incarnation. For your reading pleasure... One of the most common misconceptions about GTD is the idea that you should *only* have one Next Action per project. While DA imposes...

Greetings, I've seemingly been charged with managing the meta data around my company's RFP responses, which is starting to amount a lot of data. Initially, I was just tracking this information through an excel spreadsheet, but ultimately I believe this will become rather unwieldy as time goes on,...

I would very much like to hear from anyone who would be interested in meeting up for a gathering of GTD practionners/aficionados in Manchester, England? Pascal Venier - pascal.veniergmail.com Effectiveness Workflows Blog http://pascalvenier.com/blog/]

Hi, I was recently wondering what style of Karate David Allen practices and which "dan" he's got in it, since he refers to his training very often. I am myself a novice practitioner of Kyokushin Karate, which is on the very "hard" end of the soft/hard Karate style scale and so I find it...

FYI - David Allen Co. offers a free trial to the Connect subscription service. I swear I'm not getting paid for this (What? David, you want to give me a $20 bill to do what?) but if you try it I would highly recommend going through the Getting Started section which has a collection of audio and...

Hi there! Would you count a professional blog as a 20k area of focus or a 10k project? Thanks in advance for any advanced thought an other help!

Hi there. I'm wondering if anyone has encountered the same problem as I have when deciding between placing actions and projects in different contexts and using the someday/maybe list. Here is a sample from my current @mac context: 1 webresearch tax rules about xxxx 2 webresearch...