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GTD and Personal Life

Would anyone be willing to share if they've implemented GTD in their personal life and how successful it has been getting household members, etc. to use the system? I.E. drop notes, mail, etc. in your home inbox.

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Matt Fauris

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Personal GTD

I do use GTD at home. At first it seemed weird, but it makes sense just to have all of my commitments in the same system. Psychic RAM gets used for uncaptured personal projects too!

I never even tried to get my wife to use GTD. I offered her the book, but she never took me up on it. However, GTD is not about making other people fit your system... it's about having a system that you use and maintain for yourself. If you take care of capturing the way you should anyway, the other members of your household shouldn't have to do anything different than they've always done. Make it your own responsibility to write things down and track them as necessary.

 
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