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Projects and Next Actions for Projects
Matthew Fauris | May 6 2008
Can anyone explain how they relate Next Actions per project? It’s a little confusing in the book. Input? Matthew Fauris www.matthewfauris.com POSTED IN:
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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
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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
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
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!