Zerebria

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…”but I used to have a calendar!”

Don’t worry: you still do. It is just that it is not going to be that populated anymore. Allen’s methodology reduces its using to:

a) events with a fixed date (dentist, birthday, deadline set by somebody else) (more…)

The weekly review, or where we mix 1 and 2

So now we have 1) lists of tasks (one for each context), and 2) project plans full of future tasks, grouped by sequences, priorities and components. Let’s mix 1) and 2) and we’re almost there, can you believe it? (more…)

Natural planning

So now that we have discussed the basic “bricks” of an organization system (lists), lets take it a step further: let’s talk about project planning. First of all, what is there to plan? Almost everything, in fact, because the GTD methodology (more…)

Like Buddhist communities or UNIX programming, the GTD organization system has a modular structure. It means it is integrated by a series of elements completely independent between them, so a failure or misconception in one of them does not affect (more…)

Abbreviations: a discipline itself

A very common mistake in my note taking was (and still sometimes is) that I unconsciously intended to be “understandable” to others. There always seemed to be a sort of imaginary reader (more…)

I have always been a natural note taker. Ever since I learned to write, I have been used to carry with me some kind of capture device. Looking back at my (huge) piles of notebooks, I guess I was missing the second half of the process (more…)