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And, one doesn't always have control over the payment cycle on which your clients operate.

Like kewms, I am a writer (and photojournalist), and a great deal of the work I do is for magazines and...

It's not near as full-featured or intuitive, but HandsHigh Software's "Slap!" for PalmOS does some of the same things Actioneer did.

I keep my lists in Outlook and my Palm Z22 (using Datebk6). What I'll usually do is this: When I add an errand, it goes on my @Errands list in the form, "Bank: Deposit check from cilent". If I then...

Katherine, I'm curious - do you find that putting high-energy tasks into a separate context helps more than simply tagging them on your list? I tend to indicate tasks on my @Office list like so:

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It is, but I've found this strategy doesn't work as well for me as using physical places (or resources).

For example, consider my current set of contexts: @Anywhere, @Call, @Errands, @Home,...

I'm using HandsHigh's ThoughtManager (also rebranded as SplashNotes) for this stuff. I own several other Palm list managers (Bonsai, ShadowPlan, etc.), but I've settled back on ThoughtManager because...

Here's how I see this.

Consider the next action "@Call Jim to map out strategic vision". Let's say that we expect this call to be an in-depth hour of discussion to really get it done.

Well, if...

This part of your post caught my attention. I wonder if you're having trouble because you don't have a good handle on what your commitments are. If you have a solid handle on what your projects...

...and if this cycle continues for more than a day or so on the same project, consider a a next action that reads something like "Mind dump - get clarity about Project XYZ". When I run into this...

Generally, when I see myself fall into this trap, I'll write down an NA on my list along the lines of "Brainstorm re: XXX project", "Mindmap ideas re: XXX project", or even "Figure out why XXX...

Very true...and I often do that. I guess the point I was trying to make was that it seemed the original poster was getting bogged down in mapping out the future at too low a level of focus. I think...

A couple of random thoughts on this topic:

First of all, I heartily concur with the comments about only writing down your next Next Action for any given project. I'll bend this sometimes and have...

I don't think there are any hard-and-fast rules for this question. Remember, GTD isn't meant to replace your own intuitive judgments; rather, GTD is meant to give you the tools and information you...

I've had a bit of free time this morning to process the backlog in my RSS reader, which I've been ignoring lately because of higher priority items, and I came across an interesting post on the 43...

True, and this is to some extent also a personal style thing. For the kinds of work I do, asking questions (and restating my understanding of things) helps with confidence more than notetaking. For...

I tend to empty my paper inbox once per day (first thing in the morning). Typically, I'm the only one adding things to my inbox, being self-employed, so I don't worry so much about things sneaking in...

I've been reading an interesting book about personal power and business effectiveness recently, and one of the underlying themes that the author touches on has to do with the impressions we create in...

I know this was a parenthetical note, but I've found this to really be a quite important concept. One of the things I tend to do during my Weekly Review is to scan my project list for projects which:...

I had the opportunity to interview David Allen for a newspaper article 18 months or so ago, and one of the questions I asked him was how he'd respond to people who say that they can manage everything...

It seems to me that the place to start would be to identify what it is that's creating the mental friction for you. Is it that "brainstorm" isn't a sufficiently tangible action? Or is it that...