Quote Originally Posted by Astraea View Post
I'm working on implementing GTD. I am just a little confused about the next action list. When do you update it once you have completed an action on a project that requires additional actions? Once you've finished one action/task, do you immediately record the next action for that project?
This is a great question. The way I do it is when I create a project, I will do a quick mind sweep of all the actions that will need to be completed and write them down in a checklist format (which I store in my project support folder, or digitally under my recorded project). However, I do not work off of that checklist. Instead, I look at what the next action is and put that into my system (sometimes it can be more than one, for e.g. making a phone call and sending out an email on the same day).

Once the action is completed, I know to either go back to that project checklist and take the next action, or most of the time, I will just logically know what step to take next and put that action into my system. The main idea is to complete the project one action at a time. I am very careful not to just stick a bunch of actions into my system at once- that is overwhelming and very repelling to me.

I hope this helps!