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I'm new to GTD and setting up my tasks in Outlook. I entered about 80 or so and sorted by categories. I'm not always at my computer so I printed them so I can review at my convenience. Unfortunately, the printed version doesn't show everything. I'm one of those people who really prefers...
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Hello I'm a newbie here at forum, and I use GTD in combination with Outlook and Outlook add-on (very excited at the moment). A problem I generally have though, and try to cope with is with priorities on my tasks. There are quite many tasks that go under the tickler categories, that have no...
In the seminar video that I watched, David Allen mentioned that George Carlin originally coined "stuff" as a technical term. I thought it might be interesting to see how that happened, so I did some searching and found Carlin's comedy skit about "stuff" posted on YouTube. Here's the link to it if...
Hi all, I'm a student who has been using GTD for at least a year now with great success managing my university workload. I've recently taken a part time job as an administration and communications officer for a national peak non-profit, non-government association which ties in nicely with my...
I was surprised to find that the one day GTD seminar is almost 600 bucks. (I'm used to taking professional courses for about that for 2 days, but that seems steep for 1 day.) What I want to know is: is it worth the money? I'd love to hear from people who have been to it and what they thought....
Hey, all! In response to a few posts I've read here asking how folks manage their system, I thought I'd put together a quick video showing my GTD implementation, at least from a day-to-day perspective. http://www.vimeo.com/1063956 Video quality's low, sadly, so a few elements are hard to see...
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It's not possible to finish all projects you have. You'll never have only one project on your plate of projects. My question is how to measure individual load? When much is too much? Any ideas?
I have a bunch of old notebooks that have ideas, notes to myself, drawings, etc in them. I'm not sure whether to tear out all the pages that I want to keep or just to put them on a bookshelf as general unsorted reference. The first option seems better but having a bunch of loose papers in my filing...
I have been trying to implement GTD for about a year, but my personal circumstances have changed several times. With each change, I have gotten a bit lost on how to organize myself. First I was a stay-at-home mom with a part-time job that I worked from home. I found it pretty easy to implement...
hi I am new to GTD and getting everything sorted out. have set up a day-timer organiser following DA's sugestions. but... can anyone tell me how the projects and project notes sections differ from each other and any good tips/ideas of using projects effectively? thanks guys (p.s have...
Hey guys, I've found that a common problem with the elements of the GTD system is the ambiguity/lack of sharp edges to really great concepts, which makes implementation difficult. One that has me a little stumped is how best to use the Someday/Maybe list. This post from a yahoo group related to...
I have a great little system on my blackberry that auto syncs tasks and other outlook folders (notes, contacts). I need the same thing for my laptop. Both of my computers are running outlook 2007, on the same local network (LAN). The desktop is the main machine - but I would love to be able to...
My someday/maybe list has started becoming a real hindrance to me.On my last weekly review I purged my someday lists of things I was not longer interested in doing, and the two lists, my personal and professional somedays, still totaled close to 300 items! I resist doing my weekly reviews because...
One of the biggest weaknesses of my GTD system has been how I have been dealing with finances, generally. As a startup business owner, when the bills come due there is not always enough money to cover them. This (and the related calls and letters) has been a significant cause of stress and has...
Is it possible to add user-defined options to the 'follow up' flags on outlook tasks? I often have things that are 'due' on a Friday, and if they are not completed, I want to bump them ahead to Monday. However, the default options are 'tomorrow' and 'next week' (which defaults to the following...
It's that time of year again for me to order my organizer pages for next year. I've been seriously considering Time/Design mostly because of those cool Reverse folding activity sheets, but I've resisted placing the order partly due to the blandness of the pages. The last several years I have been...
David mentioned a normal archive with file folders and a filing cabinet. But how do you set up a digital archive with reference material etc.? Is this in the same way you do in a normal filing cabinet: just in alphabetical order, or is it more searchable on the computer when you put the files in...
Ok, like most of the first posters... I am new to this! I get some magazines that have articles that I want to save... How does everyone file those in their reference files? :???: As I see it there are 3 options: 1. put the magazines on a shelf to hold them for overall reference (if they...
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