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I had a thought earlier today about prefixing those "all-day" calendar reminders with a letter to help actions that need to be done on that day stand out among the informational reminders. At our company, we're encouraged to prefix the subject line of e-mails with "A:" if the e-mail requires...
I know we recently just touched upon getting back on top of things after a vacation. I thought spending a certain amount of time for each day gone was a great idea. And, I still do. However, I have been swamped with immediate (I promise you they are immediate) actions. I have not had the time to...
Dear GTD users, hello. Recently I tried to implement GTD better than in the past. I realized my weak points. The bigger is keep in mind. Then I work outside, on the field, 3/4 days a week. So I decided to write down all the required actions. Better I decided to applied better the flow chart...
Before GTD, I'd go to sleep with a vague sense of "things undone". True it was floating around my unconcious RAM, but it didn't disturb sleep. Now, before I go to bed, I try to "dump" all of the "stuff" into the voice recording function of my Pocket PC (and then place it in the AM). Problem is...my...
First of all, my apologies if someone has already started a similar thread - I looked but couldn't find one. I am interested in taking one of the public courses and am struggling with choosing between Roadmap or Mastering Workflow. I have read the books, understand and believe in the concepts,...
Re-reading the book talks a lot about the hard edges of the various pieces. Do people extend that to paper based filing systems and keep a hard edge between files with support materials for projects (whether current or someday maybe) and files of reference material? I'm slowly weeding out...
Roughly a year ago, a friend told me that David Allen's book 'Getting Things Done' was the best book on organizing yourself he had ever read. It is important to understand that this advice was coming from a friend who has spent the better part of 20 years trying to get himself organized. I took...
I've conducted an experiment the past few weeks. I've gone off GTD the last few weeks, retaining only a calendar of appointments. And I have to say that I've recovered a creative, intuitive spontaneity that I has been missing from my life ever since I started GTD (in 2006). I haven't spent a...
Just out of curiosity, what's DA's background, before becoming a productivity guru? His system and usage of concepts like FIFO and LIFO (frequently used in programs stacks) insinuate that he has some programmers/computer program. Anyone know details to this? Thanks.
I hope somebody who's mastered, or close to mastered, GTD or some modified form of it or any productivity system, can help me. I have been trying to implement GTD for over a year, and it just hasn't been working out. I've kept context lists, I carry a notebook around with me for capture, I learned...
I have an interest and curiosity in how everyone organizes their emails with WFs, archives, respondingto, etc. I've danced between the most byzantine, complex librarian-like filing system of over 34- yes, THIRTY FOUR! -- archive categories, but have since realized the stupidity in that. I'm not...
Hi, I'm a engineer working in a manufacturing environnement where I have to wear many hats. Even if I'm reporting to R&D director, my tasks also include working with buying department to reduce cost, projects with quality department to reduce service calls, trouble shooting with production...
Hi everyone, I'm new to GTD and I would like to know your thoughts on actions that must be done regularly, such as meditation or exercise or piano practice or checking the mail - should you create new next action lists marked "Daily" and "weekly" and not cross items off these lists when you've done...
David Allen is contributing to Business Week's time management blog for the next couple of weeks. Check out his first post on "A Mislabeled Problem." The post just went live a few minutes ago. Additional DA posts and information will be added to the Business Week blog in the next few days.
Hi there, I'm new to GTD so please be gentle! I'm using Outlook 2000 to process all my actions which means everything ends up on one list, divided by context (phone, PC, office etc.) However, I'm finding that because I work across different projects and these projects are all now mixed up,...
Have a look and let me know what you guys think? Arif
Was wondering why my morning wasn't moving -- my next actions were nice and clear, what more could I ask for? Well, as has been pointed out, work is a dynamic environment, and what were appropriate next actions on Friday are no longer appropriate today. I just moved three quarters of my next...
Help! I am a newbie in the GTD forum, but don't know where else to ask. I need to create a 'next 14 days' view (in Tasks) for my sales people in Outlook 2007. I have the SQL to do it in the earlier versions, but get an error message when I try to use it in the 2007. Does anyone have any...
How do you file and track Current Projects where the next action can't happen for years? It's an active project and an important one but the logical next action can't be done for a couple of years from now. Where do you put them so they don't get lost in the shuffle? Right now they are...
I seem to be taking advantage of the fact that GTD allows you to easily procrastinate the "big rocks" - that is, during any given period (week/month), there are several projects/tasks that are really the high priorities - that I really should be working on. However, their tasks just end up being...
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