![]() ![]() With all the meta-data that today's todo apps allow the user to attach to a given task, user's attention is taken from the entry of the task at hand to using the various buttons and drop down menus to input a due date on a pop up calendar, enter an address, what color font that task should be displayed in, etc. Many of these solutions suffer from a common problem: feature creep.Īs versions update, features get added, which is great in an operating system but terrible in a todo application. There are specially developed apps, there are implemetations users have strung together using calendar and todo apps, and there are hacks for GTD-fying non-GTD applications like Outlook and Thunderbird. ![]() Finding where it ends is the first step in getting a handle on it.īecause GTD is tool agnostic, and remains so with purpose - it allows for a freedom of implementation and flexibility to craft a system to meet your needs. The reason you implement GTD is to find edges to your sea of work - your vast sea of stuff to do is finite and has edges, no matter how vast. Unless it's all written down, emptying the INBOX does not mean you took care of everything. Write it all down, then dump it in the INBOX. Get in the habit of writing down - stuff you're trying to remember is the origin of stress.Once a week is typical, but more often is not obsessive. If you have to do something at the office, no matter how important it is, you can't do it while you're at home. Tasks (next actions) have no priority - you don't do the important stuff first, you do the stuff you can do right now first.Don't plan too far ahead - plans don't survive battle.Even when you're doing nothing, it's not restful unless you know what you're not doing. When the INBOX and the NextActions list are empty - you got nothing to do.There is no time management - you can't manage a day into 25 hours.2 Minute Rule = if a next action takes less than 2 minutes to complete, do it instead of entering it into todo.PROJECT Next Action = the answer to this question "if I spent today trying to achieve the goal of this project, what would I do first?". ![]()
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