'my new rules' for habit of a daily 6 point list. version 1

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.
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you wrote this post in reply to my question

'that's what you do - use the simplest form of GTD?'

so you don't use the simplest form of GTD?

you use this type digital form shown , in addition to also these type of files/papers which you show in the picture attached here - right.

'is that a tickler system - how did you learn to do that?

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you use this type digital form shown , in addition to also these type of files/papers which you show in the picture attached here - right.

'is that a tickler system - how did you learn to do that?
Yes I use apple notes for my system. The files in the box are reference files. (old tax returns, insurance policies, notes for a class I teach, and owners manuals those kinds of things) Nothing I work from. (probably shouldn't have put that pic in since it might confuse you). The ones in the hanging folders are current reference files I use often and want at hand. The red file is action support. I'll throw a bill in there real quick and have it close at hand when it comes up on my calendar. Or for physical tickets if I have them. Tax bills or car tag renewals. Etc. When I don't use them anymore I file or throw away. The basket is my in box ( which I empty at least every other day) and the note paper is a quick capture note pad (3x5). When I get an idea or take a quick note, I don't always want to pull out my phone. I put one note on the pad and toss it into my in basket. One note on one piece of paper.
 
Yes I use apple notes for my system. The files in the box are reference files. (old tax returns, insurance policies, notes for a class I teach, and owners manuals those kinds of things) Nothing I work from. (probably shouldn't have put that pic in since it might confuse you). The ones in the hanging folders are current reference files I use often and want at hand. The red file is action support. I'll throw a bill in there real quick and have it close at hand when it comes up on my calendar. Or for physical tickets if I have them. Tax bills or car tag renewals. Etc. When I don't use them anymore I file or throw away. The basket is my in box ( which I empty at least every other day) and the note paper is a quick capture note pad (3x5). When I get an idea or take a quick note, I don't always want to pull out my phone. I put one note on the pad and toss it into my in basket. One note on one piece of paper.

*scanned over*

you are more organized than myself*

If you had to pick one over the other - would you say that apple notes would help you more - or your physical system you pictured above?
 
If you had to pick one over the other - would you say that apple notes would help you more - or your physical system you pictured above?
Yeah I think you misunderstand. All I use is Apple notes. The other pictures are for capture, and anything that comes at me that is not digital. But it still goes into my apple notes. And the big box is just reference. I don't work out of that box. Meaning, I don't have projects or next actions anywhere other than Apple notes. The whole point of GTD is having a system you trust and only one place to look at to get things done. The pictures I attached are my whole system. (All those other suggestions two sheets of paper etc were just my attempt to help you take one step to implement GTD). Think about this. Because I think this is where you are. You want a finished system that works for you and when it doesn't happen you get frustrated. If Henry Ford looked into his future and saw how large Ford motors would be just in his lifetime, He might say I can't do all that. Where will I get the people, buildings, parts and all those types of things. But he could build one car. Next actions are that one step you can do.
 
Yeah I think you misunderstand. All I use is Apple notes. The other pictures are for capture, and anything that comes at me that is not digital. But it still goes into my apple notes. And the big box is just reference. I don't work out of that box. Meaning, I don't have projects or next actions anywhere other than Apple notes. The whole point of GTD is having a system you trust and only one place to look at to get things done. The pictures I attached are my whole system. (All those other suggestions two sheets of paper etc were just my attempt to help you take one step to implement GTD). Think about this. Because I think this is where you are. You want a finished system that works for you and when it doesn't happen you get frustrated. If Henry Ford looked into his future and saw how large Ford motors would be just in his lifetime, He might say I can't do all that. Where will I get the people, buildings, parts and all those types of things. But he could build one car. Next actions are that one step you can do.

"anything that comes at me that is not digital. " - by writing that you are saying that you choose to document certain things not digitally by preference?
 
' if we don't capture things ourselves - then we become more prone to becoming reactive? '

i could give example - recently I have looked at X

where give type ' plan tomorrow in a note book which is not GTD

GTD - is something based on projects and next actions strictly

there was a person called derek * - shared a different type version of a 'daily review' which could be paper journaling- i started doing

41 - that was 1 option for myself
start a fresh with the GTD next actions - and also do paper journaling habit at end of day?

 
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.

this is where you wrote the quote

."You can take two sheets of paper label one Projects and the other Next Actions." -That is just basic GTD

that's what I literally did - after I had a conversation with my mother in my room
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showing her my note book - and the type paper binder from @FocusGuy

where asked her the question ' if she were me ' would she think its better basically - if used the paper binder for type GTD style work
or type note book 'with the plan tomorrow system' i was trying to follow *

and she didn't respond back

'after I shared my inclination to be moved in that moment - towards stopping using my 'plan tomorrow'
and restart again with the paper binder?
that's what I said probably
'like take everything out of it? choose - recycle or actually file away the contents insider the other type of coloured paper cards which @FocusGuy - wrote to myself about the like 5 maybe different sections

'another 2 minutes passed
Do you understand what I am trying to express here?

some analogy ?
With the feeling of hurt or remorse for example - wanting to do something evil?

being linked to 'deleting or removing something
As if by destroying or writing these types sheets in paper binder #like some with coloured different coloured - sentences

Not ' C P?

"on the old paper which I haven't looked at in ages - it had different colouted coloured sentences for each bullet point - Like a projects or some day maybe list...

"I'm probably overthinking about writing further about the topic in this post reply - AM I?
'Am I God?
Om brahma mantra writing image

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came up Om brahma mantra symbol writing image
 
Well yes day and/or time specific would. But we don’t do daily to do lists.
you can do daily to-do lists, absolutely no problem with that.

It is however important that when you decide on actions and you do not YET when to do them, do not put them an your calendar but next to it. (next action list(s) / to-do list).
The nearer you are to a given time window, the more info you have about it (e.g. in the morning I have a fairly clear image of today). So I can take my next actions lists, check for the relevant contexts (what is possible) and then select for doing the most important (=you can create a daily to-do list).
 
you can do daily to-do lists, absolutely no problem with that.
I can incorporate daily to do lists with GTD?
It is however important that when you decide on actions
?
and you do not YET when to do them,
* this grammar isn't correct in UK english?
do not put them an your calendar but next to it.
Put tasks next to my calendar? what does that mean?
(next action list(s) / to-do list).
*idea
The nearer you are to a given time window, the more info you have about it (e.g. in the morning I have a fairly clear image of today). So I can take my next actions lists, check for the relevant contexts (what is possible) and then select for doing the most important (=you can create a daily to-do list).
 
' something which a user was writing about on the - GTD forum:
Was about making a new digital system from scratch .

'
But a quote came to mind:
Which linked to something I felt previously that focus guy @FocusGuy mentioned- from his experience - he had negatives ' by over complicating things - right (why he was writing for him digital GTD wasn't working for him in the past?

So I could try to prove - the best thing for myself - could be first to declutter/ or sort out my laptop if I am going to 'a new digital system from scratch'

I just herd - is it better to do physical GTD I could make a new post poll to prove a point?
'and declutter my bedroom?

A thought visualisation of quoting /referencing the orfingal * original paper style GTD ' projects section which F D user shared image of?

here was the original post *
 
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.
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' You shared in this specific post about your digital GTD
set up,
"at same time - your probably type of person who has your digital tech all organized?

and - I would feel I need to do that first before trying to attempt what you do in these pictures? # is this a project in itself which I should write, but where?
 
showing GTD in its entirety on one image. Easy to digest, and understand ALL its parts.
instead of digesting 100 pages of text.
would it help?
is that what someone tried to show to me before with the' map image?'

you could try to help by showing your 'image' ?

"GTD in its entirety on one image. Easy to digest, and understand ALL its parts." I'm not sure you would be able to do the entirety on just one A4 image?
 
' You shared in this specific post about your digital GTD
set up,
"at same time - your probably type of person who has your digital tech all organized?

and - I would feel I need to do that first before trying to attempt what you do in these pictures? # is this a project in itself which I should write, but where?
Yes those images are my whole set up. Takes about 10 minutes.
 
is that what someone tried to show to me before with the' map image?'

you could try to help by showing your 'image' ?

"GTD in its entirety on one image. Easy to digest, and understand ALL its parts." I'm not sure you would be able to do the entirety on just one A4 image?
I do not know what someone tried to show you.

from fooddode´s answer above it seems that two of us are trying to help you - probably in a different way. (he answers your answer to my answer :-))
I can show you the philosophy BEHIND GTD, so you get the whole flow on one image.
He suggetsed (if I am right interpreting his posts) to show you his SETUP.
I can incorporate daily to do lists with GTD?

?

* this grammar isn't correct in UK english?

Put tasks next to my calendar? what does that mean?

*idea
 
Yes those images are my whole set up. Takes about 10 minutes.
did you understand my previous writing specifically about clutter

' wouldn't you agree - in theory better me - priotise priotrise 9prioritize ) that instead making this new in 10mins?

"Like building a house - on quick sand instead of rock?
 
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