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I've been using GTD before David Allen was even born. :D

I wonder if you would agree with this 1-2 years later. :)

Are you sure in that? What if instead of refining contexts you'd spend the time to actually get things done?
Think about it. Steve Jobs wasn't refining his contexts to improve his efficiency... I...

Or maybe they should just let go of trying to organise absolutely everything into some context. Sometimes you have to abandon a GTD tactic in order to actually get things done.

The only wrong way...

Well my point is that GTD contexts also provide little value in general for most people with smartphones. They force people to pointlessly over analyse actions and waste time organising tasks in the...

The methodologies aren't flawed but they are stereotypes that sometimes pigeon-hole people into roles they weren’t meant to inhabit.



Yes, again, it's always the "errands" context which is used...

I think the problem with GTD is that it tries to fit absolutely everything into some stereotype and creates a lot of friction.

Capture absolutely everything(all open loops), fit everything into...

I think contexts can work for more straightforward jobs, like sales in which you have a bunch of calls and emails to make and you need a system to follow up on all your leads. But in more creative...

Yeah, you could say that everything in Steve Jobs example could be organised by contexts. In fact, you can organise anything according to GTD by the book.



But you're missing the point.
Steve...

When there are important, high priority, next actions that are key steps in achieving your 10,000, 20,000, 30,000, 40,000 ft and above goals, you simply cannot let the four criteria get in the way.
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I don't have a problem.



This is a FRESH look at contexts, no need to re-read gtd book like some sort of bible.

It doesn't matter. All phone calls would be important but also completely unrelated. It's not like he would be calling press and then the next thing he would be calling his wife and then somebody...

This is an example of a shopping list as a context which is one really useful "context" though.

One premise of GTD is that as far as your mind goes, all open loops are created equal. Now, is that...

Keeping track of your tasks is a matter of bookkeeping and I’ve moved from a double-entry to a single-entry system. It also cuts the review time in half trying to decide context assignment.

This...

The thing that struck me as genius when I first read David Allen’s Getting Things Done was the idea of contexts.
But many are realizing that Allen’s original contexts of @work, @computer, @phone,...

I would argue that I have much more captured and better organised than most people, very likely even better compared to David Allen himself. I can organise lots of data very quickly and with little...

And yet you still have 2000+ posts on this forum :p

Actually here is how GTD is presented in a stickied "what is GTD" thread and on the
http://www.davidco.com/what_is_gtd.php




Wouldn't it be much easier to explain GTD to someone if instead...

And another category is "putting stuff on your lists" :)
The 3rd category is "Doing work as it shows up" which I've mentioned in my previous post.

I guess, if you'd call it "doing stuff which is...

It's not just a delay that's the problem :)
It's impossible to pay attention to everything and take everything into account even at the weekly review.

As for

I agree. If you rely **only** on...