Hello fellow GTDers!

I have recently devoted myself to the GTD system after listening to the seminar audio recording, and spending a lot of time reading most of the book/43folders.com/other personal productivity blogs.

However, I still am not quite clear on everything. Here is an example:

After processing, let’s say I have a new project, so I put it in the projects folder. It is “Clean Apartment”. I realize that that could easily be broken down into sub-projects of Clean Kitchen, Clean Bathroom, etc.  read more »

I really like the idea of Backpack (http://backpackit.com) where you can have one page showing a group of related files, to-do lists, and date-based notes (messages). I do not really use writeboard or sharing very much.

I would love to mimic this idea on my local machine (OSX Leopard) so I’ve been trying to brainstorm how best to accomplish it. My initial simple solution is to create a directory where all the related files will be stored and then create text files for to-do lists and messages. This idea is simple, but not very elegant.  read more »

How do you guys have your “Waiting For(s)” list set up? Do you have one central waiting for list? Or one for each project?

Any particular nuances that you’ve discovered from using the Waiting For list?

Look forward to hearing everyones input!

A lot of times, when defining the next action for a project, I think of other things that I MUST do sometime later in the project, but I can’t do it yet, for whatever reason. Let’s call these “potential future next actions”.

How do you guys manage these potential future actions within a project (note: these actions are not someday maybe projects) WITHOUT creating a Gaant chart like system?

Organizing even the simplest multi-step activities into projects is one of the most powerful ideas brought to me by GTD. I had assumed that a project has to be something big, involving whole team for a long period of time, but after reading the book I understood how dividing one’s activities into discrete projects can help with organization.  read more »

This topic has been incubating in my brain the past few weeks, and I'm getting it to where it can be reasonably put together. It's partially a response to kenzi's thread, GTD and the creative life...possible? (N.B.-I haven't put it into practice yet for fine art, but I can see how it would work in theory since it works so well for design projects.)

Art isn't always created in a linear fashion, but for the most part I'd say art creation usually follows this general process:

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