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A 'Next actions' question -GTD newbie question
akapulko2020 | May 8 2006
Hi all , Let's say that I have a project which is to mail some books to a friend of mine .So first I need to get her adress :this contains of an action of emailing her ,then waiting for her reply. What I can't figure out ,is whether I should have all those listed as next actions in their separate contexts ,for the same project ,at the same time -ort should I enter the first action,then complete it ,and only then add the next action to it's context? I mean ,in most cases there are numerous and dependent actions in a project ,which belong to different contexts,right? I'm using the "nextaction" tracking tool for managing my next actions,and there's no way of defining dependency there -but the mail question is ,how is this supposed to work,the real-GTD way? Thanks :) 24 Comments
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 As someone said upstream, your...Submitted by sonia_simone on May 11, 2006 - 1:31pm.
As someone said upstream, your NA list consists of actions you can do right now. Nothing that depends on anything else. If you're not going to just intuitively know what the next NAs are on a given project, you document those elsewhere in whatever project manager you are using. Cards, software, it doesn't matter. The point of mind mapping may be to figure out a number of actions. If so, you keep that mind map somewhere you can find it (like a labeled reference file). But you can't "do" a project or a mind map. You can only do the next action. Next actions just have to be next. If they're not dependent on one another, it's perfectly fine to put them all down. » POSTED IN:
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