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A 'Next actions' question -GTD newbie question
akapulko2020 | May 8 2006
Hi all , Let's say that I have a project which is to mail some books to a friend of mine .So first I need to get her adress :this contains of an action of emailing her ,then waiting for her reply. What I can't figure out ,is whether I should have all those listed as next actions in their separate contexts ,for the same project ,at the same time -ort should I enter the first action,then complete it ,and only then add the next action to it's context? I mean ,in most cases there are numerous and dependent actions in a project ,which belong to different contexts,right? I'm using the "nextaction" tracking tool for managing my next actions,and there's no way of defining dependency there -but the mail question is ,how is this supposed to work,the real-GTD way? Thanks :) 24 Comments
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 Also keep in mind that...Submitted by Claire on May 11, 2006 - 6:56am.
Berko wrote:
Also keep in mind that your list of actions are only options for specific contexts. When you look at your list of @Errands for instance and you see drop off books at PO, you simply say, "Nope, not today. I still have to get $friend . "'s" address and box them up." and choose something else from the list that you can do. Hold on there, I thought it was exactly the point of GTD that these items shouldn't be on your NA list until they are the very next action you can take? That's the principle I stick to. So in my system, "drop off books at PO" would be on a waiting for list, or on the project list (I'm now using Evernote for this, it's excellent if you have a laptop with you most of the time - check out GTDWannabe's webpage for details on how she sets it up). But I would have "box them up" on my NA list (probably under @Home) because I can do that before I write the address on the outside. » POSTED IN:
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