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  • Last night I did a GTD presentation. I was offering the basics: collection, processing, and action. I was speaking to a group of businesswomen, so I began with the observation that they had jobs, businesses, children, pr…

  • I heard about GTD (David Allen's Getting Things Done system) on NPR on February 20th. I spent a couple of weeks getting into the habit of Ubiquitous Capture. I did the Processing and the Organization (though I still hav…

  • Yesterday's long long long long to-do list gave me a perfect opportunity to see whether David Allen's Getting Things Done system (GTD) would really be an improvement over the classic time management system I have known a…

  • Yesterday, there was snow and leftover birthday cake. My workshop was canceled (it was at a school, and teachers do not go in for a workshop when it snows), so I stayed at home plying the Dark Art.If you don't continuall…

  • I realized something yesterday. I'm coming up on my birthday, and you know how you think about where you'd like to be in five or ten years on such occasions? For the first time in a quarter of a century, I might not hav…

  • Yesterday's organizing of the files went on much longer than my enjoyment of it, but there is discernible improvement.One thing that really lengthened the process was that I have apparently been coming back from worksho…

  • I don't talk much about politics here, probably because I talk about it a lot in real life (we need a term for that that balances between "real life" which sounds like the physical world is better and "meatspace" which i…

  • A comment has inspired me to write about my planner. As I explained to the commenter, it is her fault that I have this boring entry this morning.My mother gave me a Daytimer for Christmas when I was about 12. At various…

  • Sighkey said I must be good at time management. She then offered a delicate suggestion that list-making was crazy. She has perhaps attended one of those workshops where they tell you to say a nice thing first, so the tru…

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