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I've been contemplating setting up a series of e-mail tickler folders. 1-31 for each day and months. Reason is I have a lot of e-mails I need to defer to a later time, or references to a seminar or something. I was printing them out and filing them in my paper based tickler, which does work but...

There are lots of books, websites etc. on how to "organize" your office or home office etc. Does anyone know of a book or website that offers information more specific to an IT office? IT offices have different challenges in regards to physical organization, so much product packaging, manuals,...

Is it good practise to have 2 "at computer" lists of next actions? Since I do so much at the computer, I like to put the hot, urgent or important next actions in "at computer 1" and the ones that can be done at a lower priority in "at computer 2". Is there a better way to do what I'm trying...

I recommend adding a link saying "forum" (this is the term people look for) on the green navigation bar at the top of http://www.davidco.com/index.php An alternative could be to take the list on the main page that goes from "who we are..." to "...widgets" and making it a second navbar in a...

DAs's awesome lists (*=I have it covered) #=not applicable *Account and $ numbers- credit card #s, PIN #s, etc. (make sure wherever you keep these, it is safe and secure.) passowrds file to be encrypted or stored in 1password, I have everything from all online passwords and logins to...

From pages 97-98 of Opening Up by James Pennebaker: Many times, when we write something down, we don't have to think about it any longer. I've noticed this in myself when I'm preparing to go on a vacation. There's packing, stopping The mail and newspapers, getting the car checked, and on and on....

I followed Allen's audio books Getting Things Done Fast and after listening to the whole thing at least twice, it has changed my life and brought it to a new level of productivity I had never seen before in my life. I have pretty serious ADHD (predominantly inattentive type). Is there any info...

So I've managed to really collect as close to everything that needs processing as I can and my "inbox" (both physical and e-mail, my only 2 input buckets) are so full that when I started processing I went for hours and didn't get even halfway done. Today I had to do a flip through everything in...

What do you do when you have 3 dimensional physical items that are either needed in the future or that the decision on will be deferred? They can't fit into the tickler file as they are things not papers. A current example: I have some sample ear tags that I will need for a small ruminant...

I'm finding a more systematic use of Areas of Focus has helped me recently. In a weekly review I am writing down the areas of my life that need my attention or that are bugging me in any way and for whatever reason. I will then open a note for each one in Outlook. Then I write ideas on what...

Okay, so I have my context lists and since they are on paper they are a little messy, but they are up to date. And I have my active projects list. And I have my SDMB list. And, I guess I have a cheated bit and I have a "soon as I can" list and a "weather permitting list". So what is the...

I have 2 Maybe someday folders -- one physical (a plastic folder) and one electronic (just a M/S folder aliased on my desktop (the source folder is in the tickler file folder). Both are out of control There's 62 items in the Electronic M/S folder and the physical folder has odd hodge podge of...

I am new to GTD and one of the items I am trying to figure out is what to do with paper support materials for tasks. For example, I may receive a flyer or advertisement in the mail (Postal not email) into my IN box relating to a product or service. I process it, and since this may be a lengthy...

Hi, I've been using GTD for a while and have stumbled across the GTD Mastery List. I'm keen to find out what other people write in their GTD Review Journal (steps 24 & 25), where the mastery list says: "24. For the first 6 months of implementing my GTD system, and often thereafter as...

I work from home, self employed so what I do and when I do it during the day is pretty much in my own hands, which is great. However im coming against abit of a problem. I find my days lack any solid structure what so ever. I use a moleskine GTD implementation and will pretty much just willy...

Hi, I'm a father of 4 children: 9, 7, 5 and 3 year old. I would like to introduce GTD to, at least, my two older kids. Do you have any tips for startup?

Taking a risk posting this half financial half productivity thread on GTD forum, but why not add sophisticated categories (like GTD does) to your expenses?? All my 10 Outflows * = should limit ** = should avoid So every month I can see the total number of giving expenses, giving:IRA,...