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For years I used Palm OS smartphones, and at least have the reason I stuck to the platform was for the simplicity and flexibility of the Palm Desktop client, which features an excellent categorized...

The stress of a full day of work and the following commute doesn't fully register until the moment you get home, when residual fatigue kicks in. At that point, you're probably so immersed in a spell...

I predict you'll get pushback. Unless the group project is learning GTD, there's a built-in resistance to adopting externally imposed methodologies. It would probably be more productive to hold...

I use Someday/Maybe for all deferred projects, regardless of the reason behind their deferral. A separate Incubate category would be just another list to track. Unless I wanted to have a subcategory...

I'd call it a checklist. Using a Palm smartphone, I put the shopping excursion on my @Errands list, with a note attachment that contains my shopping list. There's nothing wrong with using an entire...

If an email isn't clearly something I can delete or file as reference, I move it to my @Action folder; so there's no reason to leave anything in the inbox. Once it's moved to @Action, regardless of...

The cycle of weekly reviews is based on a standard, not a schedule. Think of taking showers. Most of the time, we take showers once a day, but if you've spend an afternoon at the gym, you'll need...

I don't know about AOL, but Gmail and a few other web-based mail service allow POP3 access (and IMAP as well, but that's beyond the scope of the discussion). You can use Outlook, Eudora, Thunderbird,...

I seem to be the only one who enjoys copying and pasting urls into memos or note attachments on a smartphone. If I have a specific next action that involves a particular website, I'll copy and paste...

I use a Palm Centro and Notetaker Wallet. I'd much rather collect on paper in most cases. In the car, I use a separate Panasonic voice recorder for two reasons: I may need to capture something while...

Make or buy a set of travel folders. The standard set recommended are these six:

In
To Home
To Office
Read/Review
Action Support
Waiting For Support

I only use In, Read/Review and...

It sounds like you're using hierarchical, nested lists for your projects and actions, which would make next actions without an associated project look like they're orphaned. The simple answer is: use...

The more self-conscious people are about their productivity, the more self-conscious they are about doing C items. If that's a problem, you can leverage that self-consciousness by "rewarding"...

A lot of things that are technically Someday/Maybes fall into categories that are more easily managed on separate lists. I have over 80 books I want to read. Combining those with my generic...

I also don't see the problem. If I have to live with the consequences of others dropping the ball, I either track the people involved on my Waiting For list or get them to clarify their next actions...

It sounds like you need to separate action triggers from support material conceptually, not just physically. You need to manage two things:

What tasks you need to do -- your action lists
What...

I use a tickler file as a date-filtered inbox to keep my calendar free of clutter.

Unique items that I've decided to act on that fall on a specific time or date go on the calendar
The tickler...

I had miserable results with trying to maintain a dual system. I was using a Moleskine for non-office task management and a Palm Desktop/Eudora system for work. I started dreading, and eventually...

Maintaining dual systems is usually counterproductive, but in this instance it might to be the most practical way to break up your calls, computer tasks, and agendas into separate context lists.
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Commenter Francis Wade mentioned the book on my blog post, linked to from here earlier, though not as recently as I thought.

What about just filing larger notes and "linking" to them with a...