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Ask HN: How you implement GTD in you personal life

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I just finish GTD book. I want to know how much practical is to maintain all the projects and their actions in day to day life. What all tools you guys are using for GTD.

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Microsoft OneNote + Moto-rokr E6(that's my phone)

Here's my workflow, I have an "action" page which containing multiple bullet lists. Whenever a task/thought occurs that requires action i put it into my action page under a heading it belongs to.. like <myresearch>, <myDayJob>,<MyHobby>, so i don't lose any tasks. Everynite i pick some things i need to do tomorrow, and add them to my cell phone tasklist, which also carries my calendar for meetings/events etc. And thats it.

All day i just keep track of my phone task list, cos it's just shorter and i don't have to be look at the bigger list.

I used to use a bunch of todo.txts, but then I wrote a system that allows you to basically enter todo.txts online, parses and categorizes them, while keeping original text nearby. And it's available wherever you are. The original problem I had with all the other GTD systems was a lot of tabbing, I type around 120WPM and it's much easier for me to enter something like:

project taskulus.reliability.history.milestone36

1. cleanup scheme:30min

2. add observed_in_task field and test:30min

3. add HTML generator for event history:1hr

It's basically like microtasking :)

I love Things for todo lists on the mac but I do not follow the GTD system.

That being said, these people have had some success with using Things as a GTD tool:

http://deadsilversky.blogspot.com/2009/01/gtd-with-things.ht...

http://corfield.org/blog/index.cfm/do/blog.entry/entry/GTD__...

I've been using the hipster pda. http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/03/introducing-the-hipster-... for a few years. It works well for me. I find that maintenance takes very little effort any more.

I use todo.sh:

http://ginatrapani.github.com/todo.txt-cli/

textmate. ;D

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