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I disagree with DanGTD--There is definitely enough time to work on foreign language software, or writing your novel, or catching up on reading (pleasure or professional) or any of a dozen different...

Your comment that it takes 1-2 years to really get the GTD system working well actually gives me hope. I've been struggling with it off and on (off at this time of year, when term papers and exams...

To keep my home and work calendars accurate, I use my PDA to ferry information from one computer to the other, synching it daily with both computers. This also solves the problem of access to...

Actually, it wouldn't be hard to design a study to support or disprove the idea that messiness is correlated with creativity. The research question would be: what is the relationship between...

"NO REACTION to a Nastygram is typically very effective at getting even... I learned this tactic from a judo student. He said that, in judo, you let your opponents' strength work against...

Every time I try to develop a morning routine, it lasts only a day or two, because almost every day is different. So I really need 3 routines.

Routine A: Monday & Wednesday:
1. Exercise, shower,...

"I want to host a GTD workshop at work and teach everyone about it "

As a teacher, I am appalled that anyone would teach something without having read the source material. I hope that, in the...

I agree that having email arrival notification on is much too distracting, so I leave it off most of the time.

School policy dictates answering student emails within 24 hours, but students want...

Articles I file by first author's last name. When I started, I had subject files, but I quickly realized it involved too many decisions, and I could never be consistent (a study which compared...

I print out my Outlook calendar in weekly format, with the task list printed on the right side. Completed items remain on the task list for several days after having been completed, but crossed...

Using separate notebooks for each course and keeping everything in one backpack may be good for some, but I found that organizational system was excessively heavy--I got backaches from lugging it all...

[QUOTE=mcogilvie;43890]Hi Rachel!

"A wise older colleague said he always looked forward to the start of the semester, he always looked forward to the end, and he figured that was about the way it...

I've been easing my way into applying GTD principles, and now I need some help. It seems like my projects are "messy." For example, my two (parallel) next actions for a course are to 1. finish...

Take a tip from kitchen planners, and store items where they will be used. So I keep my stapler, tape, and paper clips in the desk drawer, and travel chargers with my suitcases. Since foreign travel...

As an academic, I am a professional learner--I can't teach about advances in my field if I do not know about them myself. Therefore, constant reading and learning are part of my job. I schedule...

Mike,

Your suggestions not only fit into the GTD framework, they make intuitive sense. If I understand you correctly, you say don't label the overall project by what you are doing (writing or...

Next month I am starting a new career as an assistant professor, and I feel overwhelmed with all the things I need to be working on simultaneously. I think the GTD system would be helpful, but am...

Vramin] "In many cases you probably know what the next action needs to be anyway. In my Palm device, rather than marking the To Do item comlpete, I just edit it to be the next action because it's...

Smithdoug--
I'd like to try your method, BUT I'm apparently not as tech savvy as I should be. What exactly is a "thumbdrive"?

Rachel

Sheena,

I am all too familiar with that feeling and those processes. When I was working on my dissertation (years before David Allen came up with HIS neat system), I found that setting...