moonbeamstrio
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Hi All,
I am fairly new to GTD - i have read David's book, and been watching YouTube videos, and diving into this forum.
One area I am struggling with, a week in, is how to smoothly handle the hand-off between email (apple mail) and my to do list program (trying out to-doist premium).
Background
I get a lot of email for work, 200 emails a day minimum normally. A lot is conversation, but a lot is small tasks, and sometimes, big projects. I have been massively struggling with handling this over the years, remembering what I have to do, and losing/missing tasks.
GTD Process
I have set my email (apple mail) up with multiple files, as David suggests and also a Waiting for, and To do, folder, as David suggests. I also have todist set up with the 10 context suggested (Agendas, Anywhere, Calls, Computer, Errands, home, Office, Waiting, Someday, Projects).
The confusion
Where I become confused is I now have two separate pieces of 'mission control' software in effect, doing a similar thing. As. understand it, David operates with email acting as it's own world and a separate task manager, as I am.
What I can't work out is how I should handle an email when it comes in - should I be collecting it on my email and handling it on my email and thus keeping the whole task on Apple mail, or should I be adding an extra step and handing it over to do ist? So in effect one of these 2 options:
1. Process email on apple mail. 2. Go to email in apple mail folder, then send it into Todoist) and then use Todoist as my mission control.
or
2. Keep Email and Todoist lists separate. And switch between them independently . If this, how do I decide which to work from, and when?
or
3. something else....
Any thoughts here would be much appreciated. I have searched for other topics, but not found an answer that I could relate to, and desperately searching for clarity
Many thanks
I am fairly new to GTD - i have read David's book, and been watching YouTube videos, and diving into this forum.
One area I am struggling with, a week in, is how to smoothly handle the hand-off between email (apple mail) and my to do list program (trying out to-doist premium).
Background
I get a lot of email for work, 200 emails a day minimum normally. A lot is conversation, but a lot is small tasks, and sometimes, big projects. I have been massively struggling with handling this over the years, remembering what I have to do, and losing/missing tasks.
GTD Process
I have set my email (apple mail) up with multiple files, as David suggests and also a Waiting for, and To do, folder, as David suggests. I also have todist set up with the 10 context suggested (Agendas, Anywhere, Calls, Computer, Errands, home, Office, Waiting, Someday, Projects).
The confusion
Where I become confused is I now have two separate pieces of 'mission control' software in effect, doing a similar thing. As. understand it, David operates with email acting as it's own world and a separate task manager, as I am.
What I can't work out is how I should handle an email when it comes in - should I be collecting it on my email and handling it on my email and thus keeping the whole task on Apple mail, or should I be adding an extra step and handing it over to do ist? So in effect one of these 2 options:
1. Process email on apple mail. 2. Go to email in apple mail folder, then send it into Todoist) and then use Todoist as my mission control.
or
2. Keep Email and Todoist lists separate. And switch between them independently . If this, how do I decide which to work from, and when?
or
3. something else....
Any thoughts here would be much appreciated. I have searched for other topics, but not found an answer that I could relate to, and desperately searching for clarity
Many thanks