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Greetings and happy new year to my old forum acquaintances and new forum users. I have been trying to use toodledo but I am having a heck of a time making my basic gtd elements (areas of focus,...

Maybe this is really an area of focus--Total home re-organization and absorption of two adults into the household!

After many years of discussion, the time has come and in a month or two are...

Here is something I am going to try after seeing it in action. I know this guy who runs a major research lab, with many grants, post-docs,international collaborations, etc, and two IT people. The...

Decades ago, in my research assistant days in grad school, a faculty member asked me to do a literature review on academic writing and what practices resulted in adequate publication for tenure. ...

I love the suggestion to just make the front of the folder your in box. Keep it simple. But, somehow I also feel that these big projects might also need a big wall to write or draw on so you can...

Sorry, I cannot give a citation but this is what I have conclude, rightly or wrongly. Please let me know if I have missed an element or misconstrued something...

I have concluded after ...

If you follow the GTD protocol then a n/a is something you are betting you can and will do within the week and if you are more specifically committed it actually goes on your calendar for the time...

You said the key thing yourself that lets you be the person you really want to be, access to a a sea. Can you make a three year or five year plan to move where there is a sea you can play in...

or hide the cord from yourself in a place you don't feel like looking for it.

Make breaking this terrible habit and building in something else a project!


Make a list of all the reasons you...

Last I checked, there was no usb port or way to hook up to an external hard drive. I recall there was talk about a cloud back upbut not sure where that went or if people would be comfortable from a...

What about Paper Tiger?--there is an electronic version. I have never used it. http://thepapertiger.com/pricing
It is expensive.

My "system"

I am not great with this but I find it helpful to...

Maybe you are mentally doing to yourself what I sometimes do--any suggestions welcome!

Negative thoughts: When processing and organizing I sometimes have negative thoughts about what I am...

An area of focus is sort like a part of your job description, only think about your whole life, unless you are only GTDing a part of it. . Just beak it down in a intuitive way.You could think about...

One great benefit is just in the making--It has helped me gain focus and pare down what is active and what is sdmb to make a project list. When processing stuff, be it paper, objects or ideas...

I have way too much experience with solving the problem of CDs separated from their manuals--here are some solutions --

For my personal use, I glue or tape a heavy paper envelope onto the inside...

I end up with so many actions that begin with the verb "review" , whether on projects, one-offs or sdmbs that I know I need to try to be more specific about review means.

So I am collecting my...

You may have to do a mental little work on what you want from the course(s) to determine if the course is a project with sub-projects or an area of focus with several projects within.

I think it...

I have boxed myself in with many elaborate and lovely plans, all spelled out, then lo and behold and a new way appears. My has always said "ask yourself, what is the minimum that needs to take...

An area of focus is more like a beam of light--it could be a tight narrow beam or wide beam.

An area of focus will have one or more projects, none may be active at any given time.

I think...

I totally get this problem, or so I think, so I will risk being prescriptive.

You need a place to put your take to work stuff so you can accumulate it there. Put the list there in highly visible...