Getting things done
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daI knocked 11 things off my to-do list today. Tracks tells me I did 25 in the last 24 hours.
Now I have *only one* that's overdue by more than a week, and it was due back in July.
All of these due-dates are self-imposed. Still, the two stalest items were a huge relief to finally do. (One was start a google group to restart a conversation about FGC and Queer Quakers, which I had promised to do in July; this is a huge relief to get underway again. The other was to remind a local service agency I have a pile of computer equipment I'd like to donate.)
In the last 24 hours I added something like 40 new items, though 1/3 of these were music I want to buy, reminders of things I'm waiting on, and a few "someday" items. And some aren't actionable yet, but I still wanted to note them.
This afternoon I went back through my last four months of daily journal, and turned as many of those into action-items as felt necessary. Before today, I hadn't twigged to the fact that I really should be going through that every week or so, according to the GTD model. And yes, it was freeing, to get them into one master-list.
I think there might be (at least) two kinds of successfully organized people: one sort who is reassured to have everything in their brain, and wouldn't want to trust any sort of external system; and the other who in the end is reassured to have it all down in front of them.
The second variety is the kind I am, and it's one reason why GTD clicks with me.
This feels fairly over-sharing, which is why I'm not actually talking more about what's on the lists (though I'm probably happy to share if you have questions).
I seem to have 23 LJ posts in the queue. I wonder how many of them will ever finish baking.
Now I have *only one* that's overdue by more than a week, and it was due back in July.
All of these due-dates are self-imposed. Still, the two stalest items were a huge relief to finally do. (One was start a google group to restart a conversation about FGC and Queer Quakers, which I had promised to do in July; this is a huge relief to get underway again. The other was to remind a local service agency I have a pile of computer equipment I'd like to donate.)
In the last 24 hours I added something like 40 new items, though 1/3 of these were music I want to buy, reminders of things I'm waiting on, and a few "someday" items. And some aren't actionable yet, but I still wanted to note them.
This afternoon I went back through my last four months of daily journal, and turned as many of those into action-items as felt necessary. Before today, I hadn't twigged to the fact that I really should be going through that every week or so, according to the GTD model. And yes, it was freeing, to get them into one master-list.
I think there might be (at least) two kinds of successfully organized people: one sort who is reassured to have everything in their brain, and wouldn't want to trust any sort of external system; and the other who in the end is reassured to have it all down in front of them.
The second variety is the kind I am, and it's one reason why GTD clicks with me.
This feels fairly over-sharing, which is why I'm not actually talking more about what's on the lists (though I'm probably happy to share if you have questions).
I seem to have 23 LJ posts in the queue. I wonder how many of them will ever finish baking.
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Re: Our brains are polar opposites
Date: Sunday, 23 November 2008 03:57 pm (UTC)If you're still interested, there is a free Tracks host; https://tracks.tra.in/ . I'd offer you an account on my tracks machine, but it's behind a work firewall :/
Falling off the tracks...
Software to help with not writing to-do lists... hm, how about a chat-client and a buddy asking you "OK, what are you working on next?" :)
I was interested to learn that the GTD guy does a lot of his brainstorming in Mind Maps, because they feel about as right-brained and creative as I want to get when I'm focusing on writing something out. For that, my software tends to be a bic pen and a large sheet of paper. :)