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Discrete-izing amorphous blobs

There is one part where I end up not knowing what to do with GTD. And that's when I can't figure out a way to break down my 'next action' into discrete actionable tasks. At the risk of being too abstruse, these are tasks that you 'measure like water' -- one part flows into the next too smoothly; you can't count the individual drops.

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Can't find old forum post with Search

I did a search for "manila" hoping to find a good way to store manila folders per David Allen's suggestion to avoid hanging file folders. One of the links (the third one, to be precise, was this: http://board.43folders.com/archive/index.php/t-1146.html. But when I click on it, I just get redirected to the main forum page at http://www.43folders.com/forum, no specific topic is listed. What's up?

2007 -- Setting goals

2007 -- Setting goals

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Quicksilver: disable Spotlight

Quicksilver: disable Spotlight

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Cool New Forum Software Up

Cool New Forum Software Up

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Gmail Greasemonkey idea - show unread labels

Gmail Greasemonkey idea - show unread labels

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Automatic mindfullness generator

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Found a free way to sync palm with gcal

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