Change Your Game with GTD®

Organising for Success #7

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Nov 17, 2016
Learn how to effectively structure the results of your thinking for maximum meaning and location matches. Explore the importance of organizing tasks and projects, creating context lists, and accessing captured information. Discover practical tips for evaluating and updating organizational systems to ensure productivity and effectiveness.
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ADVICE

Externalize and Organize

  • Use external systems, not your head, for reminders.
  • Organize similar items together to maintain "clean edges" where location matches meaning.
ANECDOTE

Tidiness vs. Organization

  • Robert Peake initially confused capturing with organizing, leading to tidy but ineffective systems.
  • He learned to prioritize clarifying and defining edges for true organization.
INSIGHT

Refining Raw Material

  • A mind sweep reveals a mix of action items, projects, and raw material needing clarification.
  • To-do lists help externalize thoughts, but clarifying and organizing them ensures friction-free resolution.
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