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I'm not sure what you mean with the bday party example. But for the other one, the way I handle it is to consider things like this as reference material. Sometimes I'll read a mention of an...

I can give 2 comments based on my experience. When I started with GTD I was hoping that it would be in a sense telling me what to do next. I've since read quotes from David Allen to the effect that...

I've been wrestling with the same issue, more or less. But what I've decided is that its ok. Maybe this is my idiosyncratic view, but I've started to think of GTD as a system for remembering...

I would put it in the calendar since it has to happen at a specific day and time. If it was less urgent, just needed to happen during the week, I'd put it into the next-action list so I would...

As I try to apply the GTD system I end up putting too much on my plate in next actions. From the book I understand that for a project I should identify the next action needed to carry it along....

The way I handle the OPs situation is by creating a file for the person in my @agenda folder. In this case I would enter the book loan. Then for my weekly review I have an entry that says "look at...

I always have my cellphone with me and use this to send text messages to myself with reminders, this way I don't have to carry a pen and pad of paper.

If you have an android phone you can press...

For some tasks that just need to be done but that I know I will postpone starting until the future I put them into my tickler so they don't clutter my Next Actions list.

For those with a specific...

if you are not capturing web pages then Evernote or one of its competitors is probably a good choice. I tried using Evenote and some other apps and (as of a year ago, anyway) they didn't capture what...

To me the collection is one of the big benefits of GTD, because it lets you see all the things that you have nominally committed yourself to do. In fact in the book David says a lot of people stop...

similar to comment #3, I have a generic "travel plan" project because there are always tasks I need to do such as put mail on hold, arrange to have plants watered, pay bills that come due, etc. An...

My take is when you say "budget $1200 for fence work" budget isn't a next action verb.

If it was me I'd set up a project "fence work", and the next action would be on a per-paycheck basis to...

I used to over-define projects, the way you might set them up in Microsoft Project with dependencies, start this after that, and so on. MLO will let you do this if you want. But I read somewhere...

I have several tasks like this. To my way of thinking they are next actions because I plan on doing them, although they are a funny kind of action because they expire at the end of the day. I use...

It's funny, I was about to post and ask how people treat movies and the like and then I saw this post. Serendipity...

And to me this falls in exactly the grey area the OP mentions. I may or may...