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writing a book and have too many next actions
chadgr | Oct 14 2006
Hi. I'm just getting started on GTD while part way into writing a book. I've gone through the collection process and most of the things I wrote as tasks on my mind (and now in my inbox) relate to the book. Perhaps I don't understand how to process the inbox correctly, but I'm wondering whether the whole book should be my one project (with a ton of action items) or if I should break it into subprojects in KGTD (e.g., gather information on issue A, collect photographs for Chapter 5). If I keep it as a single project, it seems I have an unmanageable number of actions each of which could be eligible for a "next action." I hope I'm making sense. Any suggestions would be appreciated. 11 Comments
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 Thanks very much for your...Submitted by chadgr on October 14, 2006 - 3:46pm.
Thanks very much for your response. On one level I understand what you are saying. But during my collection phase, all of these tasks (call this person, email that person, buy this reference book, check at that library, etc) were in my head, and in order to get them all out, I wrote them onto individual 3x5 cards. Now I've got this stack of tasks that I thought were going to be processed (one at a time) by either doing, delegating, or defering. Now how do I tell which tasks (that take longer than two minutes, and are not reference, or someday/maybes, or delegatable) get put into context lists and which are the "project support materials" you mentioned? Sorry if I seem thick and thanks again to anyone. » POSTED IN:
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