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Quickie overview of the GTD system
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GTD is a system for managing your life: what you want to achieve,
how you plan to achieve that, and how you deal with all the stuff life
throws at you. You decide goals, the system helps you reach them.
FIGURE: FIXME: A flowchart that shows the flow of "stuff" through one's life.
Allen's books have such a flowchart, but we'll need our own.
A condensed summary of GTD:
* stuff enters your life, and you either deal with it immediately, or put it
in one or more inboxes
* you empty your inboxes regularly from stuff
* stuff is dealt with by one of the following:
- do it at once (if it's quick, or you have to, or really want to)
- defer it for later
- delegate it to someone else
- file it somewhere (if you may need it later)
- discard it (ignore it, throw it in a trash bin, whatever)
* keep several lists:
- next actions: deferred stuff
- projects: anything that needs more than one next action to be finished
- waiting for: delegated stuff
* at least once a week, process all inboxes, and review all lists
You may now skip the rest of the book.
TODO for this chapter
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- what is it for? what problem is GTD meant to solve?
- what is the general approach GTD uses to solve the problem?
- flowchart for information and decision making
- all new "stuff" goes into inboxes, if possible, or is processed
immediately
- process inboxes: do/discard/delegate/defer for every time
- lists for keeping track of things: what needs doing (next action,
project), what someone else needs to do (waiting for), what might be
done some day
- archiving systems for stuff that can't be discarded, but aren't needed
at the moment
- "current files" for stuff relevant for current projects and next actions
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