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That is the beauty of the A-Z filing system. If you look under house and don't see it, you go to insurance and bingo. This for me has been a huge time saver due to its simplicity.

The reason I think this works is that it allows one to get into production mode and out of thinking about what is important and selecting the next action mode. For me this is a freeing feeling. ...

I have been experimenting with the concept of planning my day and have found picking three important things to commit to doing a day has been great. I use a hardbound book and date the page. The...

I have two lists, Business and Personal. The business list is in a hard back notebook which I have been experimenting with and the personal is a single sheet of paper.

I tend to use very simple...

That certainly works. The triple task list is not really a GTD concept as it involves priority. Fro me however it works to think in terms of limiting my focus to three tasks at a time. I try to...

For work , I use the rule of three to limit tasks to three. So I have boiled it down to basically two lists keep in a simple spiral notebook, a capture list, which is everything and a task list. I...

I use paper, except for calendar and contacts, which I think electronic does better. I describe my systems on my blog for those that are interested.

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I also think time management systems are not one size fits all. Think about the specific areas of time management you need help in and implement the elements of GTD that helps those areas. I found...

I agree simple systems can work brilliantly. I follow two main rules and this gets me 80% there. They are write in one place, which for me is a spiral notebook and maintain a simple A - Z filing...

I have always been a paper user and find it is no problem to use Outlook for appointments and contacts and use a paper system for projects, actions waiting for etc. My current system is very simple...

It sounds like you may have made a hasty or not well thought out decision, which of course no system will do for you. I would suggest you spend some time thinking about the realities of being a...

Interesting, when I put my system together I also concluded the three most important items were, projects, actions and waiting for. It made life easy thinking in terms of those three categories. I...

I am a huge believer in writing in one place I use one notebook or legal pad at a time only. I start it with a page for each project which is usually about the first 8 pages. I then use the same...

If I have a truly distinct area of focus, I just do an A - Z filing system for it. Examples include a major project, long term goal or an organization like a charity. This is usually a drawer by...

I would simply have a personal and business A - Z filing system. The simplicity of this makes it work well, a bunch of categories is not needed in my opinion and serves to create more places things...

One of the simplest techniques I use and have written about is simply limiting my goals to three. These are bigger type goals not NAs or to-do items. I read years ago in Inc. Magazine an article on...

I read the book and enjoyed it very much. I think it is a great manifesto for those who are self employed or hoping to become so. In the traditional corporate working world there is unfortunately a...

I tend toward simplicity and agree with what you have said. I do find however that one man's simplicity is another man's complexity. The entirety of GTD is too complex for me, but I retain several...

I am not sure if I have over four years experience with GTD, since I basically use my system, but the three things that have helped me the most are

1. Write in one place. By doing this you save...

I also like Do It Tomorrow by Mark Forster. It is a pretty simple system using a page a day diary. He has written some simple systems called Autofocus which are free on his site.