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What if you get stood up, or the person you're meeting keeps you waiting? I've known several executives who, although not practitioners of GTD, always kept a list of phone calls about their person...

#4 - Something else. ;)

I tend to see the NAs as bookmarks: they tell me where I can jump back into a project, but I don't always just do that one item and stop. Often I'll continue automatically...

The benefit of context lists is distinct from the benefit of Next Actions: one lets you make the best use of resources immediately at hand, and be more efficient by batching like tasks together,...

You might consider Remember The Milk - simple lists with tags, syncs with everything under the sun, and ridiculously easy to use.

And free (unless you want the special features). Hard to argue...

I think there's probably several ways, depending on how many contexts/projects/etc you've got. I use tags for context, so I can create a Smart List that holds just those tagged items.

I also use...

Roger, just be careful about that 'short phone call': I'm becoming increasingly cranky about phone interrupts. I used to be moderately tolerant, but I've found increasingly that people will take or...

I'd like to chime in here, although I've come late to the party. I suffer (and I do mean suffer) from procrastination and anxiety - it's something that's developed over decades as a result of various...

I was diagnosed with depression, but I suspect that many of these mental illnesses get conflated with each other, so diagnosis is often a matter of pure chance. That is, what doctors tell you that...

Just weighing in with a couple of thoughts.

Firstly, are you the first/only one to get the massive number of emails? Because it might be worth trying to farm out the 'first responder'...

I'll second the fish oil recommendation - it's turned me from a chronic (decades-long) depressive into a functional human. I'll also second many of the other recommendations here.

It sounds like...

Like Katherine, I use a Circa Junior size. I also have very short lists: my Projects list has about 5-10 projects, and each context list has (usually) 3-5 NAs.

That's at least partly because I...

Because then you have to engage your brain to start ferreting out where the action is.



You might want to try the Hipster PDA. It's small, simple, doesn't require any drawing up, and since you...

Procrastination is one of the most pernicious roadblocks to progress, it seems. And it's self-reinforcing - the more you put off something, the worse you feel about it, so the more you put it off.
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What ellobogrande said. :)

In addition, you might benefit from different types of context lists, because I've found that creative use of context lists can (a) trim down my NAs to a manageable set...

By switching as few times as possible: as Cpu_modern says, it takes about 15 minutes to drop back into 'deep thought' mode, so the fewer times you do it, the less time you'll waste.

Erik, if you're filling a folder for one single context, there's something awry. You should be able to get a context list on a single sheet of paper. I'm generalising wildly here, since a context...

This is a beautifully simple summation of the main use of context lists: you don't want to have to scan down a list past all the things you can't do, you just want to see the things you can do (and...

Cojo, I like the icky dishes analogy - very apt. :)

My $0.02 worth on this is that you need daily routines. What I recommend often is a mix of Leo Babautas' big rocks idea and regular maintenance...

Mobile, hmmm. I know Remember The Milk has some mobile syncs and/or versions: have a look here to see if anything matches your requirements. I've not experimented with any of that, because I don't...

Yes that is exactly the problem, many interlocking variables lead to a proliferation of contexts.

I also appreciate the database idea, I may play with that some too.

I'd avoid a traditional...