I wanted to share some of my thoughts and questions about GTD implementation.
The execution part of GTD are Review and Do. When I look at the "Advanced GTD workflow", you do the following daily: Review Tickle file, Calendar, Next Actions, Waiting for. According to GTD, you are NOTreviewing your projects daily. Also, every time you create a project you note the (one) next action
How do you handle:
1. Projects that start in the middle of the week and need to be completed within the week?
2. Projects that have multiple steps that need several actions to move along appropriately?
A couple of options:
a. During the weekly review, while you review "Project A", create ALL "Project A" next actions that should happen within this upcoming week (so no need to refer to the project list).
b. (While Processing a new input within week), if "Project B" is created, create all next actions that should happen within the week. Create "Project B" in project list so it can be reviewed on next weekly review. Unless maybe all the actions listed complete the Project B before the next weekly review.
The execution part of GTD are Review and Do. When I look at the "Advanced GTD workflow", you do the following daily: Review Tickle file, Calendar, Next Actions, Waiting for. According to GTD, you are NOTreviewing your projects daily. Also, every time you create a project you note the (one) next action
How do you handle:
1. Projects that start in the middle of the week and need to be completed within the week?
2. Projects that have multiple steps that need several actions to move along appropriately?
A couple of options:
a. During the weekly review, while you review "Project A", create ALL "Project A" next actions that should happen within this upcoming week (so no need to refer to the project list).
b. (While Processing a new input within week), if "Project B" is created, create all next actions that should happen within the week. Create "Project B" in project list so it can be reviewed on next weekly review. Unless maybe all the actions listed complete the Project B before the next weekly review.