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I sometimes create an "agenda" list for a project, where I can stash thoughts that aren't the next action, but that I don't want to lose. In my case, I tuck them inside an action in OmniFocus (almost...

Can you give an example of what you mean? You can't make them use GTD for their projects, no, or make them use it for their sub-projects within your projects. That is, you can try, but it's unlikely...

One possibility here could be to introduce checklists to your system. For example, if homework routinely comes back twice a week, I can imagine:

- Creating a "process submitted homework" project...

This made me instantly think: ADD/ADHD. Then I re-read the rest of your post and that reinforced my impression.

I'm positive that I have ADHD, though I haven't been diagnosed. The description of...

For projects that I realy really don't want to do, don't want to look at, don't even want to remember that they exist, I assign myself _miniscule_ tasks, and I reward myself when I do the task.
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There are a zillion possible ways, but my first thought:

It starts as:
Project: Miscellaneous single actions.
Next Action: Create a project for changing my life focus to becoming a fiction...

I would create a folder called "Social Emails." Then I'd have a repeating task, "Go through some Social Emails" with a context that's something like "Computer - Mindless". Then I'd wait and see if I...

The other suggestions are dandy, but if even they seem too complicated, then I'd say that the simplest way to start cleaning is: Throw something out.

Just one thing. You don't have to sort what's...

For this, I'd have a "Going to see Gran" context, because it sounds like you consciously know, when leaving the house for that trip, that you're going to see her. Of course, then you might need to...

Again, I babble on at length:

Your structure sounds much more usable now. But I think that in worrying about the overlaps you may be over-worried about what I'd call the taxonomy. The primary...

Just a thought on this: Paper is indeed probably more natural for most people. But at least for me, someone who's used the computer at work and home to the almost complete exclusion of paper (except...

I suspect that mine would make little sense - all those sewing and gardening and perfume projects, and my work stuff is in another system. So I took the easy way out and made an example of how I'd...

> All in all it feels like GTD has just shown a
> magnifying glass over all the things I have to do that I'm not getting
> done and the thought of trying to get it organized and working
> properly...

Is it possible that you're also Organizing what you should perhaps be discarding? If your lists are long, and have unimportant things as well as important things, then it can be easy to lose...

I'm also responding late:

Due Dates, Start Dates, and filtering on those dates, all in action lists rather than calendar, are the key to much of this for me. I use OmniFocus for my personal life,...

My advice isn't much different from everybody else's, but, hey, I typed it, so I'll post it. :)

My thought about the restaurant in the distant city are:

- Create a "cities" folder, either...

All you need is one next action - and, technically, there is only one "next" action; as I see it, the others are just actions.

I've found that having more than two or three actions for the same...

For me, OmniFocus's "on hold" means that the item is purely information, and that it's OK for it to never pop up on my radar until I go looking for it. I usually use it for contexts, to label actions...

I could see my Next Actions progressing through:

- Create document for brainstorming about magic goals.
- Spend fifteen minutes brainstorming about magic goals. (Repeat weekly for four weeks.)
-...

Are there things you can do to help yourself not-do? I imagine the following:

Stop-smoking prep:

- Create substitute hand-to-mouth habit
-- Try several kinds of mints; choose favorite.
--...