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Newbie here with basic question...
dawnmo | Mar 12 2007
Hi everyone...just got the book this weekend and am nearly finished reading it first time through. I have some deadlines to meet today and tomorrow so I cannot begin fully implementing it right away. I am in the frame of mind of getting my thoughts organized, and came up with a couple of questions. How does one handle mundane tasks that 'should' be done on a given day, but does not really 'HAVE' to be done...for example....laundry. Does this go on the calendar or somewhere else? I don't want to encourage my procrastination by putting it anywhere other than the calendar, but I want to implement the system correctly. Secondly, I have a time-design day planner but I have never used it to its full benefit. I am still confused when I look at it and I am wondering if I am better off moving to a notebook of some sort for my lists. Does anyone have the time-design system and how has it worked for you? That's it for now...I am sure I'll have many more questions. I am SO ready to get my life organized! Thanks! Dawn 2 Comments
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 Dawn, I don't know if this...Submitted by ops30 on March 12, 2007 - 9:50am.
Dawn, I don't know if this is your first post, but if so, welcome to the 43F board :) . If you've been around the board a bit, you may have noticed there are a lot of different ways people implement GTD. I handle recurring tasks using the calendar function on my cell phone. For instance, one of my weekly recurring tasks is to download the podcasts I i subscribe to and sync them to my MP3 player. I input this to my system by setting up an all day event (it shows up at 12:00am) on the calendar on Saturday that repeats weekly. It is keyed in as "P: Comp-dwnld pdcst (Sync MP3 plyr)", where the "P:" means it is a project with more than one NA. When I see this on my calendar each week, I write out the task (w/project) on my @Home list and then delete that week's entry from the calendar. In this way, I see the task as a reminder each week, but it is not a day specific item. This is accomplishing the same thing as using a tickler file like Mr. Allen mentions in the book. As far as the second part of your question, I am not familiar with the time-design system, so I'm afraid I'm no help there. I can tell you that I use a Hipster PDA for my tasks/projects, the calendar feature of my cell phone and an Excel spreadsheet for my weekly review. That's pretty much it and it works great. » POSTED IN:
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