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This is a great subtlety...

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This is a great subtlety...

Submitted by James (not verified) on September 17, 2004 - 8:15am.

This is a great subtlety that makes GTD so effective. (For me, at least.) I’m quite new to GTD, but once I saw digested detail of it, it was like turning on the lights in the room.

I’ve also started losing my memory (I think…), so I’m a big fan of writing seemingly unnecessary details into my todo list. Like, where I may have once written “cheese”, I would now write “go to [store] and buy [quantity] of [kind of cheese]”.

Great site, and I don’t even own a Mac. ;-)

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Next actions: Both physical _and_ visible By: Merlin Mann (12 replies) September 17, 2004 - 5:51am
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