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How to implement GTD for university students
Lilly252 | Jan 15 2006
Hello all, This weekend I took out seven HUGE trash bags out of my office after cleaning everything hidden in every corner. I had boxes that had never been unpacked from four moves ago that are GONE! What a liberating feeling! I don't have my tickler file set up, but have my someday/maybe and my "next actions" set up. The entire office is set up like a GTD Central Command. I had been using the Hipster last semester before life took a weird turn. Anyways.... the reason for my question is this... I'm a doctoral student, and as such I have weekly assignments for classes, papers for the semester, and some independent projects that I"m working on like grant proposals, etc. I keep wondering what the best way of keeping track of everything, and I can't come up with anything concrete, so I thought I'd consult with the experts on this board. Thanks! 61 Comments
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 David Allen's "time --> energy...Submitted by BMEguy on December 18, 2006 - 3:23pm.
Todd V;7239 wrote:
David Allen's "time --> energy --> priority" comes into play here. Of course an academic only has so much time and so much energy to complete the tasks they need to get done every day, but part of what makes it so complicated is that when that caffeine buzz wears off at about 3pm in the afternoon and they really only have the energy for low-level tasks, they are staring at a list of actions that require a lot more energy to complete. GTD can't really fix this problem, but it does at least diagnose it. One possible solution for #3 that I've found seems to work well is to use a system that allows for multiple (and orthogonal) contexts. A action might be "office high (energy) long (time)" Then at 3 pm when my energy is flagging, I can use a smart folder to find only those tasks that are "low" energy, and "short" or "med" time (<10 min, <30 min, respectively.) It helps me use those times more effectively, instead of staring fruitlessly at some piece of writing or re-reading an article paragraph 3 times because I'm too tired to make sense of it. » POSTED IN:
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