Folke said:Where is the tickler file?
stephenisthebaker said:So when I'm looking for the PDF files that the author of the book mentioned every 10-12 pages, and find the first search result on Google is the thread that you answered sarcastically, it doesn't make me feel all that great about the types of people who use GTD.
stephenisthebaker said:Finally, I wanted to introduce you to a friend of mine who has a message for you: http://tinyurl.com/j5qrseu
stephenisthebaker said:Thanks for your time Mr. TesTeq! I hope you have a wonderful and enlightening day!
Learn something new every day. I have to admit that I've never seen your posts as sarcastic or humorous at all. I frequently see you as pendantic, overbearing, often irritating and insensitive but over the years just learned that is who you are and ignore most of them when they offend me.TesTeq said:My sarcasm was unfounded even if my comment contained the proper, easy to find link. Probably no sarcasm is really useful in any circumstances.
stephenisthebaker said:I know this is a bit of an older forum thread, but I wanted you to know that your responses on this thread are not only sarcastic, but also offensive and insensitive.
What you don't seem to understand is that some people have trouble with certain websites (this one included) when they try to use accessibility technology. (examples might include: screen-readers, screen-magnifiers, pointing assist devices, etc).
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I want to thank you for the link to the workflow PDF file that you provided with your first response. It was the most helpful text you provided in this thread!
Your last response however, was less than helpful, in that the previous reply who was asking for the tickler file, was asking for the PDF that Mr. Allen refers to in the book when he talks about the tickler file. Yes, he mentions a PDF in that spot. If he didn't in your version of the book, then he did in my audio book.
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Finally, I wanted to introduce you to a friend of mine who has a message for you: http://tinyurl.com/j5qrseu
Oogiem said:Learn something new every day. I have to admit that I've never seen your posts as sarcastic or humorous at all. I frequently see you as pendantic, overbearing, often irritating and insensitive but over the years just learned that is who you are and ignore most of them when they offend me.
If I might suggest, next time you think about using sarcasm please let us all know that by including some instructions, it may be trite but using emoticons can really help or even write the sarcastic comment like we used to do on old BBS systems and were all programmers. I would have never thought that the message that prompted this was sarcasm but might have understood if you'd clued me in that was the intent. I'm not personally as fond of emoji but even they are helpful compared to reading plain text without the body language, inflection and other non-verbal interactions that are so critical to understanding humor or sarcasm.
Folke said:It is generally safer to express things in plain, unambiguous language.
Gardener said:I perceive this forum as moderately dysfunctional, with a fair bit of "bite first, consider later" vibe.
TesTeq said:I NEVER mix time-blocking with Next Actions. What's the successful outcome of "Spend fifteen minutes prepping notes for the WidgetBase meeting"? Fifteen minutes spent. In my world this NA would be "Prepare notes for WidgetBase meeting". I want high quality, good enough notes. Not 15-minute notes.
I would love to know examples! Do we, seriously, have topics whose answers are taboo? I hope not! So if you can think of some, I'd be very interested in knowing.Folke said:But then there are other types of subjects and thoughts - better not mention any examples here ;-) - that seem to be utterly taboo even though under more "normal" circumstances (in your ordinary world) they would be perfectly legitimate.
I clearly did not spend enough time on Connect in the past year because this and Gardener's comment about feeling unwelcome completely blindsided me.Folke said:I agree with your sentiment of often (still) feeling unwelcome here. I feels a bit as if I have stumbled into some kind of secret religious society in a remote valley on a different continent, where there are all kinds hidden rules, beliefs, perceptions, purposes and loyalties that I cannot quite figure.
You can point almost the exact date that the forums became less active. The day after the switch of the forum software to the current system. That software conversion threw everyone who was active for a loop. It took what felt like months to get things mostly working and there are still major glitches and things that grate in terms of following and responding to various threads and posts. I saw a lot of folks who dropped off because they got tired of dealing with the hassles of trying to get the same interaction that the old software supported. It was a lot easier for most folks to move on to other forums where discussions are easier to do than stay here. The cost of GTD Connect is also a big issue, that forum change also happened just as the economy was tanking and removing the Connect membership fees is an easy way to reduce expenses. The combination of a difficult platform for conversations and high costs meant that as people's Connect memberships expired a lot of them didn't renew.DenaDahilig said:In prior years the forums were MUCH more active. And I've often wondered what happened, if there was some glue that came unglued.