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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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Emory: Another dumdum question: What happens...

Emory:

Another dumdum question:

What happens if your lose your Levenger Rope Case? Are the Projects/NAs/WFs/etc backed up anywhere, other than the photos you take of the old cards?

I have said before, I love the GTD-Outlook thingy for processing e-mail. It is great for that. Its just that it is really lacking for processing/viewing/tracking much else.

I think I could make all this stuff work like this:
Calendar: Outlook/Treo
Email: Outlook (and Treo if I have to get mail offsite)
Contacts: Outlook and Treo
NAs, Capture, Waiting, Someday, Projects: Hipster

I just have this weird mental thing that comes from 8 years of PDA use that makes me feel like my tasks MUST be in two places, in case I lose one device.

Another question:

Do you keep any of the same NAs on different cards? For example, is "Tip a 40 on the driveway" only tracked under "Tax Project" or is it also tracked on a list of all of your NAs?

Thanks for the help. I really appreciate your work.

 
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