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GTD and Programming: Experience and questions

So, at my job I have a bugtracker for projects currently in development, a workflow manager for changes/bugs that existing clients have, email, and a pretty open policy on bothering others. It's actually not as bad as it sounds, but sometimes it's hard to keep organized. My first attempt at GTD had me using iGTD and basically F6-ing emails and bugs/workflows. I treated these sources of input as just another inbox with items to be processed. At first it seemed to work fine, but after a couple days it became overkill. The bugs/workflows have to be updated on their respective systems anyways, and the iGTD list was always becoming stale. Nowadays, I come into work, read email, look at the workflow manager, bugtracker, etc. Then I write the items I want to address on post-its. The one I'm currently working on goes on my laptop. This works a lot better but seems very un-GTDish.

I'm sure there are other programmers out there. How do you deal with something like a bugtracker in a GTD-ish fashion?

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