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GTD for a family

Hey,

I'm trying to figure out a way for me and my wife to co-plan our agendas and one of the ideas is to just create a GTD setup that covers the both of us:

* We get a family gmail inbox where we post things we need to do
* In the evenings we process the inbox and organize the work
* tasks for individuals go to our respective inboxes, which we handle with our individual GTD processes, while planned family activities go to our family google calendar
* we maintain our lists at google documents (projects list, next action lists etc)

Any one who has tried this? Any caveats that you can think of?

/Caid

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This is how we do it

My husband and I use Outlook to share a calendar - although we are lucky because we both work for the same company and we can do that. Given that is probably not the case with most others, I think the iCal or Life's Roadmap. It is a web based tool for short medium and long range planning that is really easy to use and sends to e-mail reminders of your goals. We think that combination works pretty well for us.

 
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