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Macjournal commonplace book11/10/2022 ![]() ![]() For instance, if your project is to change your plumbing, the next action will be “look up phone number of the plumber in the agenda and not “call the plumber”. “Call the plumber” comes next to “look up the phone number”. ![]() In GTD jargon, a “next action” is the next physical action required to move forward a project and it doesn’t have nothing to do with the logical structure of the project, most of the time. I kept the habit of breaking projects into “next actions”. I don’t want to be bothered in these processes by unsolved “open loops”. ![]() I also use it for learning, either by absorbing information, either by experiencing. I prefer to use my brain for doing creative stuff like writing, coding or something like that. I don’t know about your brain, but my brain is not a rolodex for sure. This is something I kept and found extremely useful. Solving this “open loop” is a matter of taking it out of your head and storing it in a trusted system, for further processing. In GTD terminology an “open loop” is a thought that is not solved, hence keep popping up in your head all the time. Let’s take them one at time: Emptying your RAMĪnd getting rid of “open loops”. There are at least 4 different things that somehow survived the golden era of GTD in my organizational behavior. In this post I’ll outline what was left from GTD in my productivity rituals after the drop of the hype. Icon GTD blogger Brett Kelly handed over his popular GTD property Cranking Widgets Blog to a new voice, Andy Parkinson and in recent posts claim he cured his addiction for this technique. #Macjournal commonplace book how to#Merlin Mann has switched his and we must re-learn how to use what was once the Internet Bible of the common GTD’er. It was the Golden Era.īut now the hype is over. GTD posts and blogs where spreading over the internet at light speed. At that time even yours truly was a GTD wannabee and one of my very first posts in this blog – and one of the most popular, I must say – was about GTD for people in transition countries. Soon, other useful and very popular blogs appeared. This phenomenon lead to a sudden surge of new blogs, with of Merlin Mann becoming the icon blog for this trend. It was about GTD, or Getting Things Done, a methodology for boosting productivity invented and shared by David Alled in his book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. Two or three years ago, a strange topic about organization skills, de-cluttering and mind like water exploded on the Internet. ![]()
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