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If your handwriting is good, and you like the way your folders look, leave them the way they are.

Me, i have poor handwriting, and don't like the way folders look when they are handwritten.

I...

Wow, I'm really surprised with the quantity and quality of responses to my initial post.

I suppose the concept that helped me the most from the response is to be creative about the use of contexts...

I suppose that this concept is very helpful to some people, but frankly, I am fairly mobile and there are very few things I need to be in a particular context to do.

So, of course, I worry that I...

Raise our rates. I say it to management all the time.

But they say "how can we raise the rates with the quality work we're turning out" -- but they don't realize that the quality work they are...

I agree, but the reality is we are in a business, so I understand management would rather a. joe overtaxes himself to get more work done AND/OR b. joe skips some relatively inconsequential tasks THAN...

I think that does help.

I can do more to catch overload when it happens, and the strategies you suggest are very helpful.

I need to think of ways to track those things.

Perhaps as I do that...

That is the kind of approach I was thinking of.

I just was really hoping to find some resource to kind of short circuit the process.

I've spoken with a number of people about this, and they...

My question doesn't pertain to measuring what he IS doing. . .

but rather on what management has asked him to do.

I'm assuming the guy is working hard 40-60 hours per week, and still isn't...

The idea of lawyers in private practice working 40 hour work weeks is a moot point -- it is never going to happen. 60 is the norm. So 2000 hours a year actually allows 1,000 hours per year for...

I'm sure many service oriented companies -- particularly professional services -- have this problem:

How much work are we really assigning to people?

For example: Lawyer Joe bills 2100 per...

Engineers, controlling an important part of the over all project.

they got us over a barrell on this one, but I'm plodding ahead, 3 yards at a time.

Two suggestions which I appreciate especially are the ones to talk to the consultant. I did. Laid it on the table. This did not solve the problem, but there was progress, and they now understand...

So for the past year I've been cruising at 90 mph on a GTD high.

And using these strategies I manage to clear the decks so I can focus on a major project with a hard deadline.

And then I'm...

thanks for the tip. I will keep an eye out for it.

I have a litigation practice.

Essentially, I replaced the word "project" everywhere it is used in GTD with the word "file". Every file is a project.

I use things, on my mac book and iphone. ...