gtdstudente
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@TimBourne
Yes, google sheets
google docs
Copy Paper . . . seems to be the same as Printer Paper
Which Apps you decide to keep would be your decision
Thank you very much
As you see GTD fit. . . .
'my new rules' for habit of a daily 6 point list. version 1
Yes, google sheets
google docs
Copy Paper . . . seems to be the same as Printer Paper
Which Apps you decide to keep would be your decision
Thank you very much
As you see GTD fit. . . .
TimBourne
Mr
right i don't use google sheets
or docs really
much - apart from maybe downloading stuff like Ted car type downloads?
oh right the same
i could try to refine my apps ?
S
fooddude
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I know we have had this conversation before
What do you use for GTD?
Do you understand what GTD is and what it isn't?
Tell me how your system works.
TimBourne
Mr
"
What do you use for GTD?
Do you understand what GTD is and what it isn't?"
probably not
you mean to write - what I i use GTD for right now? that was a type error?
I - feel like - 'i don't really use it anymore ' that the - like
' im not using the GTD philosophy right now after having specific problems implementing it right now
' So should I stop using this fourm altogether?
fooddude
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No I meant what do you use for GTD. I use apple notes. Others here use different digital apps. Some use paper.
Everyone on this site thinks GTD is the best system for organizing your life and completing tasks. And we all want you to succeed.
I see people making this much more complicated than it is. You can take two sheets of paper label one Projects and the other Next Actions. Put a project on the project list and the very next action you need to do on the Next Action list and you have just done GTD. You can expand it after you use this for several weeks.
About six years ago I did this because my system was complicated. I now have projects, someday maybe, five contexts and 3 agendas. That is it.
gtdstudente
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TimBourne
Mr
right now
' on a daily basis im not sure using
things on a everyday basis - even though I just put it on my google calendar - habit too, reminder
i've tried both paper and digital
yeah that's what it is
? but I'm limited from mercury
right, I already have
right
fooddude
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Do you mean areas of focus (20,000 ft)? Or horizons of focus? the whole hierarchy? But I have this in apple notes that I review periodically.
Levels-of-Your-Work
This comes dangerously close to prioritizing and I don't want to do that except through my weekly review. If I make a commitment to myself or others, they have to be done regardless of priority. Sure some things are more important than others but everything I've committed to has to be done. But I am very good at saying "no" on the front end so it doesn't get in the way of my "priorities" or interfere with my Horizons of Focus.
And if you're asking if I run every project through Horizons of Focus, I don't. But I run every project through my system. No matter how small. I have Study AI tricks to enhance website and buy an extension cord on my project list.
gtdstudente
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@fooddude
20,000 ft: Areas of responsibility (Chapter 9; page 200 for First Edition and page 215 for Updated Edition)
Perhaps you actually did express at such ?
On this end, all Horizons levels are filtered-&-vetted through four particular Areas-of-Focus since A-o-F is also the source and parameters of Principles and Purposes
Thank you very much
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fooddude
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That's why it is confusing. If you click the link the terminology used for 20,000 ft is "areas of focus and accountability". And the hierarchy is Horizons of focus. There is no mention of areas of responsibility or areas of focus. "Purposes and Principles" is 50,000 ft. But my answer is the same.
This comes dangerously close to prioritizing and I don't want to do that except through my weekly review. If I make a commitment to myself or others, they have to be done regardless of priority. Sure some things are more important than others but everything I've committed to has to be done. But I am very good at saying "no" on the front end so it doesn't get in the way of my "priorities" or interfere with my Horizons of Focus.
And if you're asking if I run every project through Horizons of Focus, I don't. But I run every project through my system. No matter how small. I have Study AI tricks to enhance website and buy an extension cord on my project list.
I agree with this. For years I struggled with contexts. They slowed me and made everything confusing whatever I did. Once we have smartphone and so most everything can be done every where, I now keep a waiting for list, a someday list, a waiting for list, a next action list and an agenda's list. I update my next action list and try to keep it to 10 items max. Everything I dont intend to do this week goes into my someday's list. I can do it on my Mac with a word sheet, with my software, with my bullet journal, with a sheet of paper, with a white board.... What ever I use it works. Personally after years and years of essays I prefer my bullet journal. My next action list in on my daily log all others have their own list and I am happy with this.
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TimBourne
Mr
hi 3 x persons above
@FocusGuy
@fooddude
@gtdstudente
' the words what I believe food dude last wrote,
'- are still in my mind - that the simplest form of GTD would be ' get 2 sets or stacks of lined paper and put 'next actions and 'projects - right?
On my FB social media I have shared information's of myself actually trying to do what is called "plan tomorrow or the Ivy lee list technique (for planning ).
'and its like VOICE says - I could for example have wrote back to food dude "- yeah I agree with that form of simplest GTD -" AND JUST START ALL FROM SCRATCH AGAIN, SHOULD I DO THAT?
or maybe share further what i am trying to do - to fix the problem I feel i have writing 'plan tommorow ' each day -
please see [https://www.facebook.com/timothy.bo...xGcZG8kk6EHuKr7xGgEgfH9q7zBffc1vfwuiW7JFKsRal]
if you are unfamiliar with plan tomorrow - ted explains the most basic version of it .
I also had 2 other ideas of resources I could share with plan tomorrow 'if you write back here.
which is better?
@FocusGuy
@fooddude
@gtdstudente
' the words what I believe food dude last wrote,
'- are still in my mind - that the simplest form of GTD would be ' get 2 sets or stacks of lined paper and put 'next actions and 'projects - right?
On my FB social media I have shared information's of myself actually trying to do what is called "plan tomorrow or the Ivy lee list technique (for planning ).
'and its like VOICE says - I could for example have wrote back to food dude "- yeah I agree with that form of simplest GTD -" AND JUST START ALL FROM SCRATCH AGAIN, SHOULD I DO THAT?
or maybe share further what i am trying to do - to fix the problem I feel i have writing 'plan tommorow ' each day -
please see [https://www.facebook.com/timothy.bo...xGcZG8kk6EHuKr7xGgEgfH9q7zBffc1vfwuiW7JFKsRal]
if you are unfamiliar with plan tomorrow - ted explains the most basic version of it .
I also had 2 other ideas of resources I could share with plan tomorrow 'if you write back here.
which is better?
fooddude
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I actually wrote..."You can take two sheets of paper label one Projects and the other Next Actions." -That is just basic GTD
AND JUST START ALL FROM SCRATCH AGAIN, SHOULD I DO THAT?-I don't know the answer to that question. But I do know you are making this more complicated than it needs to be. I can tell we aren't helping and you are frustrated. I mean no disrespect, but there are some very smart people on this forum with great ideas. They have complicated formulas and procedures and codes for files and tags to cross reference projects with next actions. They have project planning sheets. I don't do that.
to fix the problem I feel i have writing 'plan tommorow ' each day -GTD doesn't plan tomorrow. It organizes projects and next actions in context. I have nothing "planned" tomorrow. But I have many next actions I will do when I'm in the context to do them.
Six years ago when I realized I was working on my system more than getting anything done, I wrote Projects at the top of a sheet of paper. I wrote Next actions on another sheet of paper.
I collected all my projects and wrote them on the sheet marked projects
Then I wrote down the very next action for my projects on the next action list. I worked just like that for about a week.
When I got a significant amount (20-25) next actions, I broke them down into David Allen's Contexts. I wrote the contexts at the top of the paper and then the next action from my next action list on a context sheet.
I worked like that a month and one of my projects was to find a digital app that I could use like sheets of paper.
I eventually settled on apple notes. I have a note (sheet of paper) that says projects.
I have several notes (Sheets of paper) with contexts. I haven't changed this in six years. And I don't add fancy, complicated steps.
I have the very next action in context listed in that context note.
Once I am done with the project, I remove that entry from the project note.
Hope this helps.
TimBourne
Mr
oh right - well i have impaired short term memory *
OK
'in what way
i have decreased IQ because of V@ccine injury
TimBourne
Mr
thanks for getting back here?
"I actually wrote..."You can take two sheets of paper label one Projects and the other Next Actions." -That is just basic GTD"
it could be better I try do do this digitally? " - do you agree? # what would you say would be best application?
one of my specific projects - is trying to get my typing speed to 200 WPM,
for example - share information's I must have written ,
'I could write a new list starting with all current problems I believe there are preventing myself from progressing in typing,
- my current 'practice routine ' shows that I am not improving even though I have been trying to use monkey type for say 6 - 3months?
- I still don't have an optimal set up with my actual laptop typing objects tools in there positioning ,
since I am feeling im struggling right now 'trying to do ' ivy lee technique at end of day
TimBourne
Mr
' you wrote a post about - about trying paper GTD or using PAPER binder?
i could give example - where
in 2 mins I just looked over my paper binder
section 'next actoins
it is out of date, cluttered etc
- do you think it is best I just cross out the tasks written
and put the paper in the recycling?
'there is an option of starting again with my paper binder, is that best?
fooddude
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I can't make it any more simple than what I've laid out.
TimBourne
Mr
' are you saying it wouldn't make me feel different if I kept the paper
or destroyed it
'
i could give example - where
in 2 mins I just looked over my paper binder
section 'next actoins
it is out of date, cluttered etc'
i was writing that - was because thinking will this help my emotionally do you understand?
"I can't make it any more simple than what I've laid out."
But surely you would have an idea or preference?
that's what you do - use the simplest form of GTD?
fooddude
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I'll post it one more time. This is my system. I have one additional note called Someday/maybe for things i'm just interested in or are 2 or more years out. I pull them over to projects (during weekly review)when they become something I want to do or i delete them if they don't interest me anymore.
