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Whitepaper: GTD LoFi/HiFi by Emory

Enough people have been picking my brain lately about my workflow that I decided to document it. Heavily.

Published versions of this draft as I'm writing it will be available online and I will be commiting changes as I work on it.

I'll probably also post something on my weblog or in this thread when revisions are made.

Since email has been a hot topic lately, I started with that section, and I'll be documenting various other topics as I go.

Permalink for this doc will be: http://kvet.ch/pages/gtd-whitepaper-emory

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Very, very nice write up...

randellt wrote:
Very, very nice write up Emory. I've always used the "I have too much to track" excuse for not using 3x5 cards more heavily, but you're writings have re-inspired me.

From my reading, it looks like you are creating the content for your 3x5 cards electronically. Is that correct?

Okay I'll add this to the paper.

I print the TEMPLATES from diyplanner on my printer but I'm doing the tasks by hand. its still faster.

for some reason when i manage the lists electronically i'm micro-managing every single item on it. i think too much.

the problem with managing the lists electronically is that then i have to MANUALLY SYNC THEM!

the horror!

i was thinking when i first started that i'd use Backpack as a source and compare notes. i quickly found out that i have enough things to do without going through lists on backpack and checking cards in and out of that.

so its just the cards for me, right now.

 
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