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GTD for a family

Hey,

I'm trying to figure out a way for me and my wife to co-plan our agendas and one of the ideas is to just create a GTD setup that covers the both of us:

* We get a family gmail inbox where we post things we need to do
* In the evenings we process the inbox and organize the work
* tasks for individuals go to our respective inboxes, which we handle with our individual GTD processes, while planned family activities go to our family google calendar
* we maintain our lists at google documents (projects list, next action lists etc)

Any one who has tried this? Any caveats that you can think of?

/Caid

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We bought a 6 slot...

We bought a 6 slot inbox thingy from the container store (nice white wooden one so we can sit it out in the open). Each of us (2 parents, 4 kids) has a slot which serves as our gtd inbox. We keep a pile of index cards near the inbox so we can give each other todo items.

Like mentioned above we use iCal and share our calendars. The kids all have planners from school (the are school specific and are required for them) that they put their homework & outside items in. My wife and I use Moleskines and do a very modified gtd outlined here http://www.utilware.com/gsd.html

I'm a programmer and work from home every day. I only work on 2 projects at work and a few outside of work, so I find that a full gtd system creates more work than it solves. Therefore the Moleskine for each of us works fine. We usually sit down and go through our items (we shoot for daily and hope for weekly).

 
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