96. Listener Questions 14: Alternatives to contexts, analogue systems and projects lists without AOF
Sep 12, 2023
In this listener questions episode, Morten and Lars discuss alternatives to classic contexts in GTD, their experience with analogue GTD systems, and how a simplified projects structure might look like. They also address listener questions, announce their upcoming 100th episode milestone, and thank the audience for their support.
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Struggle with GTD Contexts
Many users struggle with GTD contexts, especially if mostly working from a computer.
Morten shares that contexts can still help distinguish different physical work arenas.
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Organize Actions by Work Choice
Organize next actions by how you want to choose work in the moment.
Use contextual or situational categories that fit your current working environments and conditions.
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Plan Few Tasks Night Before
Planning one to three tasks the evening before can work well for some people.
Stay flexible to re-plan as daily conditions and tasks change.
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It's time for another listener questions episode!
In this episode, Morten and Lars go through questions from Alex, Jukka and Ivan covering topics such as:
- Alternatives to using the classic contexts in GTD
- Their experience with completely analogue GTD systems
- How a simplified projects structure might look like
..and much more! As always, we hope that this episode helps you in your GTD practice and thanks so much to Alex, Jukka and Ivan for their questions. If you have a question, be sure to let us know at podcast@vitallearning.dk!
Also, we'd LOVE to hear from you with a quick message, audio snippet or even better, a quick video regarding our episode number 100! Don't worry about making it perfect, find your phone and record a quick selfie-video with whatever you want to share with us. We'll make it into a fun episode when we reach number 100 - you know where to send it, podcast@vitallearning.dk :-)
Links:
- Article on Thorbjørns analogue system (in Danish): https://vitallearning.dk/tanker-om-en-papirbaseret-tilgang-til-gtd/
- Episode on Natural Planning Model® (NPM) you'll find in your podcast player, episode 10
- Morten/Lars' channels on YouTube, if you want to watch the episodes:
- Lars: https://www.youtube.com/c/LarsRothschildHenriksen
- Morten: https://www.youtube.com/c/MortenRøvikGTD
- GTD Summer Camp 2023 video (3 min version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LSAZF9EiYs
We really hope that this episode helps you on your GTD journey and, as always: If you have any feedback we'd love to hear from you via podcast@vitallearning.dk. Lastly, be sure to head on over to VitalLearning.eu to learn more about Getting Things Done® (GTD), Crucial Conversations and other offerings in the Nordics+!
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