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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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I see your problem and...Submitted by solidsnot on May 14, 2006 - 9:00am.
I see your problem and to tell you the truth that happens to me as well where the actions listed under some projects don't have to be finished in any particular order. When that happens I just ignore whatever next action kGTD puts up for me and go off the project list on my 3x5 card and check off whatever actions I finish. However, for the most part the purple listing keeps me in check and I find it pretty helpful. On a side note, have you tried tinkering with the settings? I haven't dug around in there for a while but I'm pretty sure you can tell it how to handle next actions to a certain degree. » POSTED IN:
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