fixes from CloudyFrankfurt via Heiko

Signed-off-by: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
Sponsored-by: author

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@@ -15,13 +15,13 @@ sensation, enough to be called a cult.
 
 This document is a description of my personal implementation of GTD,
 based on the books by Allen, and tons of online discussions. If it
-helps the reader, great, but I primarily write this so to clarify my
+helps the reader, great, but I primarily write this to clarify my
 own thinking.
 
 The GTD system is one of many. Other well known ones include the
 [Bullet journal][], [Inbox Zero][] ("GTD, but for email only"), and
 [Zettelkasten][] (good for researchers). It doesn't matter what system
-you use, or that you any system. The only thing that matters is that
+you use, or that you use any system. The only thing that matters is that
 you're happy. For me, GTD helps.
 
 I started using GTD in the summer of 2006, while I was working as an
@@ -53,8 +53,8 @@ won't lose much if you try, though.
 Productivity is whatever you say it is. GTD is a personal system,
 after all. You decide.
 
-For me, to be productive means that I feel I do all the things I need
-to do to to feel happy, satisfied, and fulfilled, and either achieve
+For me, to be productive means that I do all the things I need
+to do to feel happy, satisfied, and fulfilled, and to achieve
 my personal and professional goals. That's very wishy-washy, but let
 me break it down in concrete statements:
 
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ or you have the time and energy to deal with them immediately, and you
 can just deal with them as they arrive. If there's a fire in the
 kitchen, you deal with that immediately. If someone asks you what time
 it is, you answer at once. If you get offered a cup of tea, you either
-drink it then, or refuse it. There's no point in a putting a cup of
+drink it then, or refuse it. There's no point in putting a cup of
 tea in an inbox to be processed a few days later.
 
 I process items in an inbox several times a day (email), once a day
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ general, anything that lands in your inbox is best treated as a
 suggestion that you consider if something needs to be done.
 
 Even that can be too much. If you, say, have an open source project
-with many users, they each separately feel like they have a right to
+with many users, they may each separately feel they have a right to
 ask you do consider something. If that happens rarely, that's fine. If
 you get many such requests a day, the cumulative load on you is
 excessive. It's OK to filter what gets into your inbox, in whatever
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ Mine also has ideas for programs I might want to write, or features to
 add to existing programs.
 
 This list runs the risk of growing too large. At its largest mine grew
-to over 7000 items. (grep is useful.) That's too large to be useful.
+to over 7000 items. `grep` is helped, but that's too large to be useful.
 ("Learn French" was there three times.) I find it helpful to trim it
 down if it grows too large. Trimming is helpful not just to make it
 easier to find anything, or to get rid of duplicates, but also because
@@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ me.
 ## The review
 
 For me, clearly the most important, the most energizing, the most
-meta-productive part of using GTD is the review. I try do one every
+meta-productive part of using GTD is the review. I try to do one every
 week, but that varies. If I skip the review for a month I get angst,
 and have difficulty concentrating. My brain loses all confidence that
 I can support it by keeping track of things externally and tries to
@@ -492,8 +492,8 @@ productive mode the rest of that day. This is why I avoid doing it on,
 say, a Friday evening, as the temporary energy boost would be lost while I
 sleep.
 
-My review sometimes take hours, but I tend to take breaks to have tea
-on the balcony with my wife, and other important things. If I'm
+My review sometimes takes many hours, but I tend to take breaks to have tea
+on the balcony with my wife, and do other important and urgent things. If I'm
 feeling it is urgent, I can usually do a reasonably thorough review in a
 couple of hours if it's not been more than a couple of weeks since the
 previous one.
@@ -595,7 +595,8 @@ a GTD system for myself.
 
 # Acknowledgments {.unnumbered}
 
-Thank you to Greg Grossmeier and Heiko Schäfer for feedback on this document.
+Thank you to Greg Grossmeier, Heiko Schäfer, and CloudyFrankfurt for
+feedback on this document.
 
 # Copyright {.unnumbered}