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gtd diagram and artical from costco

phdblogmeister — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:20:06 +0000

PDF of artical: costco-gtd-artical-with-cool-diagram2

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springpadit.com a GTD killer application?

phdblogmeister — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 06:26:32 +0000

from: http://www.springpadit.com

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Productivity Heatmap

phdblogmeister — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:54:14 +0000

from: http://www.productiveflourishing.com/how-heatmapping-your-productivity-can-make-you-more-productive

Download a this map here heatmap-blank

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my new GTD Google-based dashboard (built with Google Sites)

phdblogmeister — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:04:40 +0000

check this out

more photos here

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Full GTD (MindMap)

phdblogmeister — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 07:24:15 +0000

getting_things_done_-_glorified_common_sense_-letter.pdf (letter)
getting_things_done_-_glorified_common_sense_-large.pdf (plotter)

The MindMeister source file is here.
E-mail me for a MindManager .mmap file.

Action reminders (aka context or @):

phdblogmeister — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:24:23 +0000

Examples:

@work
@phone
@library
@home

@agenda …to prepare for meetings and people
@read/review
@errands

(p. 144, with @ symbols are referances on p. 153)

What kind of things do I want to keep track of?

phdblogmeister — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:18:44 +0000

In GTD the major categories lists I found useful were:

Projects
Next Actions
Waiting for
Someday/Maybe
Calendar

(p. 140)

It should be noted that these are hard copies to be kept in manila folders, or in some other system you may have. These lists are also refered to in the context of hard edges.

Waiting on, and the “Next Action”

phdblogmeister — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:11:43 +0000

In terms of the process flow diagram presented by David Allen (p. 32) in GTD, I often think about the waiting on items under the what’s the next action, which is sorted by delegate it.

One idea I had was to capture these waiting on items in the form of a weekly report by project. I’ll give it a try and let you know how it works out.

When I have “stuff” to process what do I do first?

phdblogmeister — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:06:35 +0000

Well, according to David Allen (p. 122) in GTD process as follows:

Process the top item first
Process one item at a time
Never put anything back into “in”

So these means if you have a piece of junk mail on top of a note from the CEO to you, process the junk mail first.

Refer to the diagram in the GTD section of the blog for what the process flow, because there are further categorization that you must follow, if for example the action will take you more then 2 minutes, it’s a multi-step project, etc