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a quick procedural question

Hi,

So I've read GTD twice, listened to "Ready for Anything" and have been following 43 folders off and on for a while...

I've started my own GTD system... opting for a note-book in my pocket at all times, taking it back to my laptop at home where i have a system built with smart-folders on my copy of Journler. I have been going throw the work-flow chart and doing a regular review.

I have noticed a problem that i could use help with...

when I'm out doing stuff, I have my lists of next actions organized by context, ready for whatever situation arises. But, once I cross off a "next action," i'm sometimes confused about what the new "next action" for that project is. It doesn't seem productive to be constantly going back to my project lists every time I get a next action done.

How do i deal with this?

any advice is appreciated

MarinaMartin's picture

If you can’t figure out

If you can't figure out what the Next Action is intuitively, then you should be able to catch it during your weekly review when you (hopefully) look at each individual project list and make sure each one has at least one Next Action listed.

If you find that a weekly review isn't often enough, then maybe each night you want to review the items you crossed off your list and check just those project lists for new Next Actions.

On my Next Action list, I wrote each Next Action like this:

Next Action (Project Name) @CONTEXT-IF-APPLICABLE

and I keep my project lists in ABC order, so it's pretty quick to find the right sheet.

I also totally echo the earlier comment that if you can't figure out what the next action is, but the project isn't done, you should add a next action of "Brainstorm next step (Project)"

 
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