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I am having trouble with my calendar. How do I: 1) List projects that need to be completed by a certain week (rather than a certain date) 2) List projects that I would like to start on a certain day. 3) What do I do with these projects on my calendar if I don't start or finish them on...

My job involves three roles: PR, communications and day to day operations. When I drawing up a project and next action list should I divide my projects and actions by role or should I keep all the next actions on one list? Secondly, David describes defining actions by context e.g @computer....

Hello, I have a few major conferences I am attending (not planning), and I can't quite figure out what list to put them on. Obviously they are on my calendar, but I also have some to-do items relevant to that day, as well as reference material. Would these events be on a project list, or do...

Has anyone had experience with Scott Belsky's book, Making Ideas Happen, or on his website, his product called "Action Method"? His book was from 2010 and it certainly sounds like he re-wrote David Allen's book, as he talks of three types of items: Action Steps, Reference, and Back Burner.

Hi, I am going through the GTD book and was able to empty my "in" basket, adding the next actions to all the documents and objects I found that needed to be worked on. I have read the next section "Workflow Diagram - organizing" but I have no idea what I need to do next. He mentions 7 basic...

Hi all, I am new the the forum but I have been starting and restarting GTD for about 4 years. I own my own business which has two divisions, one is design and consulting the other is instruction, all email for this business comes to my Outlook. and I am a Director of another business in...

I have a fail safe system using NirvanaHQ to manage next actions but am looking for better ways to keep project and meeting notes. I used to walk into meetings with paper and pen and took lots of notes (former training as a journalist) which would then be filed according to the project and next...

I write next actions but they stay on my list because I don't know how to do them. Or they generate too many other additional thoughts that overwhelm me. For example, one on my list is - Send Richard the stakeholder engagement plan. But when I look at it I think - where is the plan? In my...

Hi, I am very excited with the possibility that GTD will help me function very efficiently at work and at home. I bought and have read the book and both the Implementation guide and the GTD for Outlook 2010 manual. I have been at this process for almost a week now, non-stop basically. This...

I delegate a lot. I use OmniFocus and need your advice. For example, I delegated "Prepare news and articles for the website till 01/10/2012" project to my marketing director. I put the project as "Prepare news and articles for the website till 01/10/2012" and the next action as "John: Prepare news...

Hi GTD ers, I am well aware of the GTD methodology to deal with information (is it actionable – and then the options of doing, deferring, delegating etc). I am however very interested in knowing if anyone has done any thinking on the types and characteristics of actionable information. Let me...

I would like to discuss the issue of multiple forum tabs being open. Do you find you have loads of forum tabs open at any one time, slowing your PC to a crawl? Why does this happen? Let me give you an example: in one forum, I have 5 threads I have participated in and following, waiting for the...

I'd like to help the volunteers and staff where I work to be more reliable at turning in receipts for gasoline purchases after they "fill the tank" when they"ve been on the road transporting people/hauling donated food and produce, instead of taking them home. The number of receipts turned in...

Does anyone use a combination of the two systems?? I love GTD's next action thought process..I've been involved with GTD from the onset...The lists are a big problem for me...I simply get more done by making a list for the day...I know this goes against the grain of GTD. I have no problem with @...

Posting *Which comes first goals or areas of focus? I'm in the process of taking my gtd understanding to the next level. I've always had a niggling doubt that my understanding of goals and areas of focus could do with greater clarity. Defining goals first then working on areas of focus...

I continue playing with contexts. Not sure if that would double my productivity so looking for advice. In my setup I use a mix of tools (Mac, Phone), location (House, Office) and action (Google, Read, Write) contexts. I thought it would be nice to make them all to equal ground, i.e. location. I...

While I like the ideas of GTD - in day-to-day business I tend to avoid looking at my lists. I just don't look at them... Honestly speaking I'm a bit afraid of them;). It is just no fun looking at hundreds and hundreds of tasks and projects. I've tried out quite a lot of systems. Starting with...

They don't seem to fit neatly into the GTD system. Here's an example: each month I try out some changes in health, and one thing I'm doing this month is taking Omega 3 every day. Okay, so if I'm strictly doing GTD it would seem that's a project: take O3 every day during April, and then each...

I created a very rare list for me - @Office. The first action appeared on my list: "Find a business card of mr. XXX at my office drawer". Now I need to look at this context while in the office. Not sure I will do. I don't have so called discrete or spare time because my time is usually blocked...