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Don't totally understand NAs

I'm new to GTD. Just read the book over the weekend, and spent today collecting and beginning to process.

There is still something I don't understand about next actions. Let's say I have a list of 50 projects, and I go through each one and decide what the next physical action is... am I going to end up with a list of 50 actions, work through those, then generate 50 more?

Would I be kind of spinning my wheels as I rotate through all 50 projects, rather than focusing on one, and doing more actions on that one?

Or am I missing something? When I list NAs, should I list all the NAs I can do on a specific project?

Thanks for the help,

Matt

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You can have as many...

stevecooper wrote:
You can have as many NAs as you want for any project. If you don't have a NA for a project, though, you either need to choose one, or be happy that your project isn't going to progress. If that's the case, you could move it onto your someday/maybe list.

So your projects relate to NAs like this;

Active Projects
  Project 1
    NA 1.1 @WORK
    NA 1.2 @HOME
  Project 2
   NA 2.1 @WORK
Someday/maybe
  Project 3
    <no NAs>

That generates you two context lists;

@WORK
  NA 1.1
  NA 2.1
@HOME 
  NA 1.2

Those lists make a lot of sense to me, but I have one question: is it OK to have more than one next action listed at a time in your NA lists? (as the @WORK example implies.)

 
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