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Projects and Next Actions for Projects

Can anyone explain how they relate Next Actions per project? It’s a little confusing in the book.

Input?

Matthew Fauris

www.matthewfauris.com


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Grey1618's picture

Re: Projects and Next Actions for Projects

This was something I was uncomfortable with when I started GTD, but you don’t need to keep track of which NAs go with which projects. You only need to sort your NAs by context, i.e. NAs for the Internet, for the Office, etc.

It feels a bit strange at first, but you’ll find out that it’s a better system after a little practice.

-Grey

mfauris24's picture

?

Grey,

Thanks for the help. But I’m still confused. Should I make Specific, multiple project lists, but create General NA’s for them? Thanks!

Matthew Fauris

Grey1618's picture

Re: Projects and Next Actions for Projects

You should have one list that lists all of your projects, i.e ‘Shed cleaned out’ or ‘computer software installed’. Then you put the next actions for those things on the context lists. So ‘throw out garbage in shed’ goes on the ‘home’ list and ‘download software’ goes on the ‘computer’ list.

-Grey

bengoshisan's picture

Name projects and underline project name

Hi,

I had this concern too. My solution was this: every project has a name, and a goal, in the project list. I underline the names, so I get

garage: dump all stuff
webpage: find a host and setup a blog

That's one single list, while on the NA lists I have (grouped by context) a project name (underlined again) and a suitable NA:

@home:
garage: grab a piece of stuff

@computer:
webpage: fire up google

All this is lofi, in a spiral notebook and a Moleskine.

Cheers!

 
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