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Homework Assignments: Where do they go?
odie5533 | Oct 22 2007
As a student, I get many homework assignments from reading, to worksheets, to completing problem sets in a text. I was wondering, where should these assignments go in my GTD system? I was thinking contexts for each subject, but that seems to over-complicate my contexts which the GTD book says to avoid. Then I thought just put them in one context, but then where do due dates go, and they get rather jumbled in one context. Some homework needs to get completed sooner than others, so it's a deadline. But most of my tasks are related to homework, so then I'm putting most of my next actions (homework) on my calendar. If anyone could point me in the right direction here, I'd greatly appreciate it. 4 Comments
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 Competing With Your MemorySubmitted by dr.marty on October 22, 2007 - 8:49am.
GTD tries to tell us to get everything out of our head into a system that we trust, and then we're supposed to simply reference that system at every moment that we find motivation to take action. The problem is that this system is not an augmentation of memory; David would have it as a replacement. You cannot replace your memory, and as a student, if you are choosing some tasks out of an elaborate GTD system and others just out of memory, you are creating unnecessary conflict. So my impulse, after reading your post, is to recommend the most simple of things - a list of assignment due in the next week and a list of MAJOR assignments that are most determinant of your grade (such dates for midterm, for finals, for term papers), but this second list should exclude anything but the most significant. Remake the simple assignment list as you want, and regulate your overall effort by looking at the major list regularly so that you can assure yourself that you are on top of that. Be well, Dr. Marty » POSTED IN:
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