Hi All,
I'm implementing GTD for the first time and find myself running into an issue with next actions: how granular should I get? For instance, I have a few books I want to donate. Before I take them somewhere, I need to lookup where I can take them. That looking up process constitutes a second action, so is "donate books" now technically a project with the actions: "find donation place" and "take books to donation place"? Or, if I need to buy a printer, is "search amazon for five minutes to see my options" a separate action from "buy printer" and therefore the whole thing is a project?
Thanks for your thoughts.
Additionally, I'm using Things 3 as my system of record. For anyone using a digital tool to track actions/projects, how do you treat actions stored under a project when they become a "next action"? Do you move the list item out from under that project and into a context list, or do you just create a new item in that context list and now have the same thing tracked both under the project and in your next actions list?
I'm implementing GTD for the first time and find myself running into an issue with next actions: how granular should I get? For instance, I have a few books I want to donate. Before I take them somewhere, I need to lookup where I can take them. That looking up process constitutes a second action, so is "donate books" now technically a project with the actions: "find donation place" and "take books to donation place"? Or, if I need to buy a printer, is "search amazon for five minutes to see my options" a separate action from "buy printer" and therefore the whole thing is a project?
Thanks for your thoughts.
Additionally, I'm using Things 3 as my system of record. For anyone using a digital tool to track actions/projects, how do you treat actions stored under a project when they become a "next action"? Do you move the list item out from under that project and into a context list, or do you just create a new item in that context list and now have the same thing tracked both under the project and in your next actions list?