Roger, I really appreciate your feedback. Detailed and clear!

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I just wanted to start off by saying I love these sorts of posts; they provide enough detail to allow some direct and useful advice. So thanks!


This is the first indication that something is rotten here. In my experience, it's virtually impossible to keep your own personal GTD project files in some big corporate filing system. So I'd strongly recommend instead starting with a step like starting a project in your own system, and adding 'start project in company's system' as an action.
Yes, I should have been more specific here. Starting the accounting and filing is a less than 2 minute action, so I do it immediately, it is two short emails.

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You're close here, but I think the emphasis has to be on writing stuff down, not thinking stuff up. Yes, you'll need to think stuff up too, but really the important GTD part of the activity is writing stuff down. "The next physical, visible action" sort of thing.


I wouldn't get too hung up on how complete or NPM-compliant your planning is. No plan is complete. As others have mentioned, this sort of thing goes into the Project Support folder, which personally I often fold into the Project folder. Which you'll need anyway -- you need somewhere for the results of actions like "collect water use data" to persist.

Thanks again for the great question, and I hope this helps.


Cheers,
Roger

Sounds like the consensus is project support. This is a good wake up call to me. I have two filing cabinets full of project support, but very little of it is project action documentation. I think I can use this advice, thanks to all!

M Shelton