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  1. If you are eating a wonderful dinner, listening...

    If you are eating a wonderful dinner, listening to music, or talking to your wife and you are in your head fantasizing
    about your upcoming vacation, then you are really not enjoying the dinner or...
  2. Every moment you spend on GTD software

    is less time you spend getting things done.

    Listen to TesTeq

    " think that the better you are at GTD the less the tool matters.

    It's because the goal is not to do GTD better but to do the...
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    Contrary opinion: if you need complexity of omnifocus, fine, but if not...

    but if you don't, pick something simpler e.g. Things, any outliner, etc.

    If you are asking about no palm anymore, you may want simplest thing possible, which is not omnifocus.

    my 3c (inflation).
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    Thank you thank you thank you!

    Thank you thank you thank you!
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    GTD NEEDS to be customized to the person using it

    sometimes in little ways, sometimes in bigger ways. Don't let the GTD guidelines which are there for a reason, prevent you from ignoring them when doing things that way works best for you.
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    Any tips for peeling off labels

    This is silly buy I remember my old brother labeler had some tool (forget what) that made peeling off labels (from the backing) easier. Using one's fingernails (male here) is not optimal and there...
  7. That is a perfectly valid way to do it.

    That is a perfectly valid way to do it.
  8. 1. I have no experience with omni so if a...

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    I have no experience with omni so if a simple implementation can be set up

    ****without much learning or many pitfalls and it is easy to use that way***,

    it might be worth a try.

    I...
  9. Contrarian view

    If you are just getting back on GTD wagon you are shooting yourself in the head with a VERY large caliber gun if you are trying to both A get back on/stay on GTD habits and B. get up to speed with...
  10. 1. next actions you have to/want to do in next...

    1. next actions you have to/want to do in next e.g. 7 days go on next action list.

    2. seperate someday/maybe into "not this week" (where you park the rest of your next actions) and "maybe some...
  11. Perfect=enemy of the good

    Put another way, all the energy you spend on looking for/at etc different systems is energy better spend actualy doing.

    Scott (who after trying several systems has gone back to the simple joy of...
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    You are not David, and don't have his job

    I understand the appeal of this, but if your mind does not work like David's, and your job is not similar in some ways to his, this may not be ideal (to put it mildly).

    GTD is an approach and...
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    I don't know if it is GTD dogma/protocol/etc but...

    I don't know if it is GTD dogma/protocol/etc but it is one very useful way to approach it and helps keep n/a list smaller.

    This goes nicely with dividing someday/maybe into:

    Maybe=may want to...
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    Paper and electronic

    I feel MUCH more connected to the money I am spending when I write out paper checks vs e.g. quicken. So for GTD I have used an electronic program (which one has varied) where I can change things...
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    1. Paper. 2. Things is simple and easy to use...

    1. Paper.
    2. Things is simple and easy to use use, really short learning curve.

    As simple as you can get away with (all the omnifocus users can send hatemail to....)
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    Agree. Someday AKA not this week (or month,...

    Agree.

    Someday AKA not this week (or month, etc)
    Maybe is the perhaps someday I might want to that David talks about.
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    A few thoughts: 1. Med school, studying,...

    A few thoughts:

    1. Med school, studying, sleeping, eating and life maintenance are pretty much it for now plan accordingly and use SIMPLEST possible way of keeping track of things e.g. not...
  18. HI Joe, Just wanted to say that I really like...

    HI Joe,

    Just wanted to say that I really like your system. I may adopt some parts of it myself.

    For those of you who don't know, there is a linkedin GTD forum that has some good info. There...
  19. There are several of us who agree with you but I...

    There are several of us who agree with you but I gather we are in the minority.

    " was just not going to go online whenever I had something to add to my system" That is just one of the reasons I...
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    You need a folder "action support" for just such...

    You need a folder "action support" for just such things.
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