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Nice, I'll have to try this out! Thanks.

Posted 3 years ago

I like the !Zap list, for things you can do in under 15 minutes, great!

Posted 2 years ago

I like it, particularly the Zap list. Good ideas here!

Posted 2 years ago

Looks nice but I must admit my lack of expertise in GTD. Any chance someone out there could help with some additional description of the concepts and symbols (!,>>,@) utilized in this impressive outline?

I thank you sincerely

Posted 2 years ago

Re my previous post, a little GTD for beginners would also be highly appreciated

Posted 2 years ago

maseratij

Here is the beginner info.

http://zenhabits.net/2007/02/beginners-guide-to-gtd/

Posted 2 years ago

I discovered RTM the other day when I decided to drop Mail.app for 100% Gmail and needed a way to stick with my GTD methods.

I since I have several clients, I use a slightly different legend:
-(action)
@(context)
.(client)-(projectName)

For Lists, I only kept the inbox/sent, and used smart lists to work in. so for example:

I use this one to find any task that does not have a context set, or no project, or not tagged at all.
SanityCheck: Searched for: NOT tagContains:@ or NOT tagContains:. OR isTagged:false

this is another check that I use to catch up since I tend slam items in from gmail just to get them recorded and tag them later.
2BTagged: Searched for: isTagged:false

For client related projects I save searches like this one for my phoenix client. This way something like .phoenix-page-layout and .phoenix-setup-captcha all show up:
.Phoenix: Searched for: status:incomplete and tagContains:.phoenix

And of course I have saved searches for my action tags like -next and -waiting, and -someday

So far this is working pretty good. Saved searches are very powerful!!!

Posted 2 years ago

I use a similar Sanity Check though mine also includes not having a due date (I always try to include one if only for estimation purposes)

the ideas here are lookin' really solid!

Posted 2 years ago

rajjan

jsoule: No need to include status:incomplete in searches, it makes no difference. Also, the 2BTagged is also trapped by your sanity check (if you want to keep the number of smart lists down). Just some friendly advice ;-)

Posted 2 years ago

Rajjan: Good point on the extra smart list. using only the sanity test simplifies things.

Oh and thanks for the pointer on status:incomplete. ;-)

vjcamarena: I may adopt your method of always setting a due date. It would add additional accountability to all my tasks.

Posted 2 years ago

Nice tip on the !Zap list. I'll try that for myself.

Posted 2 years ago