My Dream App - Jeff Greenberg

Running into life problems.

2006-10-11T12:46:28Z

No mock up time, no real time to check out the boards.

Which is ashame. But it’s not going to change my time. My grandmother isn’t well (see last weeks post.) Between that and work, it’s not leaving time to post/create mockups/respond to ideas etc.

So, please, vote for me (or not.) I understand either way.

Keep it Simple S******....because Simple Just Works.

2006-10-06T01:48:18Z

Y’know the KISS Acronym. Keep it Simple S******.

That’s the idea. Simple, simple, simple. Simple means easy to learn, easy to implement, easy to stick with.

Of course, I wanted some level of chocolatey goodness, all animated (actually, I’m working on it in Motion…) But there is a finite amount of time, and real life struggles intrude.

BUT YOU’LL GET THE IDEA:

click away!

Okay. Basic? Yup. That’s a key concept in all the apps you use on a daily basis.

The right side, the grey side gets updated based on the part of GTD that’s going on. Why haven’t I filled this out? Not enough time to Get Things Done. I haven’t figured out if it should be tab based/hover or switches…

But you get the basic idea.

Jeff, you say, c’mon. Shouldn’t it be more than that?

Nope. If you’ve been following the GTD concept, it’s damned simple (at certain levels). As long as you Collect your brain into it (’emptying your buckets’) and Process that information into an Organized manner…you’ll Get Things Done as long as you Review.

But what about MidnightOmniThinkingActionable.

Nope. They’re mostly a good implementation with a so-so learning curve. And the “daddy” of the Mac ones - kinkless, is just a major headache.

It’s all about following the steps.

Just so you can see…I had been tinkering with other ideas along this line.

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I’d been thinking about the other finalists too. For example, I really like the way Ground control looks. And several of the others.

And the digg effect - digg punches in on things that are easy to understand., like atmosphere.

Don’t focus on the Mockups. Mockups aren’t what this is about. Otherwise, it’d be MyDreamMockup.com

And as far as mockups go - mine are always going to suck.

I know what I want; but the time it takes to create such things isn’t in the cards for me. I have the idea - I’m not a designer.

Are you a Design fiend?
If you are a designer and read this far, let me know. If you’re in the philadelphia area, I likely could have you comped for an $800-1200 class in media - Authorized Adobe, Macromedia or Apple Training. I could possibly do this in Boston or a number of other east coast cities too. Whether or not I get to the final round.

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Everything below here is personal, about me and not iGTD. Feel free to read (or not) as you see fit.

Here’s irony for you. If you bothered to read this far.
This application is about Getting Things Done. Frankly, I have quite a bit going on - back from travel (and yes, my place is a mess. I’d show photos, but I’m ashamed.) There is no food at my place (Sunday will be the earliest day I can go shopping.) My grandmother was in the hospital from sat to today…there was a little repentance holiday on monday, and every morning I’ve been over taking my dad’s blood sugar (he’s diabetic). I’m a night person, and don’t survive well with early mornings. And then there’s the whole work thing (I have a conference I’ll be speaking at on Saturday for about 8 hours; let me know if you want to go.)

Yeah, I know, Waaaaa (see Artie Lange Quote from the Howard Stern Show.)

Normally, I’ve been working on iGTD at night (usually between midnight and 2 am.) Really. Go back and see when all of my postings are.

Oh the pictures...

2006-10-06T01:04:38Z

It’s been a harrowing week. I don’t want that to influence you.

When you see my next post, you’ll see how basic I’ve knocked GTD down to…

Don’t think that means it’s “simple”. Don’t think it means it’s not “Flexible”

It just means that ANYONE will be able to figure out the basics.

No manual. No help file. Just some suggestions on how the workflow should go.

Really, I’d have this all cool and animated…but I don’t have the time (and real world intrudes)

So, let me get the screenshot/idea posted (it’ll click right away)…

Then let me address what the judges said.

I'm onto something new...

2006-10-04T12:59:13Z

Really. I have a new idea (Post ephiphany). The problem is simple = how to make GTD much more “visual”

But there isn’t enough time in the day. Between the Jewish Holiday, travel, a family member in the hospital over the weekend,I haven’t had a chance to do a mock up.

I’m going to explain it right now, as it’s pretty simple.

1 2
5
3 4

That’s right. Just five numbers on the screen. Keep reading.

Each number is part of the screen rectangle…

There are 5 basic areas of GTD:
1- Collect
2- Process
3- Organize
4- Do
5- Review.

I’ve discussed with a couple of people (on the phone, while travelling) the idea of this…we’ve spoken about how the desktop metaphor has failed us…and about how this is a very simple visual solution.

At any point you could click and switch to another “view” - colorized, still being abel to view the edges of the other parts.

Any “part” you’d click on would slide (very leopard-y) that part nearly full screen (with the edges remaining to the other sections.

I’ll have something later today to give you an idea. But it’s really really simple (and therefore a hallmark of the “right” concepts)

Epiphanies

2006-09-29T05:41:37Z

There’s a truism in the world that most people miss.

If one person says to you at a party “Dude, you’re drunk,” they may be wrong.

If two people tell you that, perhaps you’re drunk.

Know what I realize?

One, iGTD isn’t simple enough (yet) for a newbie. A total zero level user, who realizes that they need a better hold on their ‘next actions’; and need a guide while setting it up. As one of the judges said, “I’d download the software and try it out, I’d give it…say, five minutes”

Two, I think, it’s why I’ve struggled with the mockups. Oh, sure, I’m crappy with photoshop (as an artist. As a technician, I know how Pshop works.)

I need to envision how the app can help you get started and organized.

I think a nice ‘bubbly’ flow chart…with the five items (or so)
Sure it should have a second/more advanced interface lying underneath. But the “Flow Chart” ought to guide you/help you think it through.

Reflections on 2nd round Judges thoughts.

2006-09-29T05:24:31Z

It’s one am, I’m a bit sick, traveling, working in nyc for the week, and of course, the vote is occurring when I don’t have the weekend to lobby and explain.

I wanted to write something direct to each of the Judges comments along the line, as well as take a moment to thank each of them for the time they put into the comments.

Scott McNulty.
Two items, first, Scott, the reason the Net is enamored with Getting Things Done….it’s because it’s so useful as most of us are getting overwhelmed with an ever increasing amount things/communications complicating our lives. You can tell when you find a system that works….and GTD just works.

Second, I’ve used every app available; Kinkless is..well, full of kinks (and impossible for a newbie.) Midnight Beep’s Inbox, is Alpha, alpha, alpha! Really. Unusable (although he may have a true beta available in the next week.) Omnifocus? Who knows if/when it’ll come out…and if it’ll have any sort of GTD thoguth to it.

Paul
You don’t make a calendar entry for every item in your life - but you do have to actually track those things you want to get done - otherwise, you don’t have a system you can trust.

And I totally agree it’s gotta be understandable in 5 min. I think a total Mockup rework is in order.

Dan Hendley,

Once you get GTD working in your life….it’s like the best overview of your shit you ever had.

Martin, Dead on.

Oliver.
GTD is NOT a to do list. To do lists fail because you often, get stuck, over items that are really projects in disguise. Which is why you adopt a To Do list, stick with it for about a week…and then ignore big items that really need to be broken down into smaller pieces.

That’s quite a bit of what GTD does for you - helps you recognize what a “project” is.

Reflections on first round Judges thoughts.

2006-09-29T05:22:21Z

Round 1 Judges commentaries.

Please, forgive the fact that I didn’t even see that this existed…so I wanted to make a separate post about them.

Again, thanks to all of you for the thoughts - I appreciate when anyone takes the time to actually look over an idea

Brent. Thanks. Perfectly said. Whether or not iGTD gets made…we all need this app.

Cabel. Two things. One, you and several other of the judges made me decide tonight (1:14am, friday night, sick and with too little sleep) that I’m approaching this wrong.

The whole thing where I see I’m blogging to explain GTD; that ought to be the heart of the application. GTD for the newbie. And I’m sorry (truly) for the iAPP naming. It’s just I have to fight the uphill battle of the concept - I needed a name that was totally concise.

John Cassanta; I totally hear you about the evolution. Guess what I’ll be doing this weekend?

Gus Mueller.
Hey, if someone else makes it - I’d be thrilled. But today there is one actually working dedicated app…and it ain’t mac like in the least. ThinkingRock.

Allan Odgaard. I’ll totally address bringing in text and XML metadata.

Austin Sarner - yeah, totally. As I get to the end of this list, I realize what I’ve been missing about this app: Plain simple ease

Can't....make...a...mockup....worth...a....damn.

2006-09-27T04:36:23Z

I don’t know about other entrants. I really wouldn’t know how to mock something up, if you paid me. But I did. It took forever.

I have some ideas in my head about how the app should look. This isn’t it. It’s a working model (please, please PLEASE, feel free to give your ideas. Or mockups.)

I’m not a software designer. I have no real clue about what I’m doing.

But I know that You’re going to live out of (mostly) your daily review.

So, I envision that it welcomes you by name, you choose a context (in this case work) and that you can rearrange the items to your liking.

When you’d mouse over an item it’d open up (like a web 2.0 item) to reveal/notes details (or perhaps also have a line of such). Perhaps when you click, a popup (like DVDSP, or Motion) asks about the status (Done, perhaps deferred and to whom)

On the right sidebar would be the Upcoming events on your calendar (you can pick how many days ahead). Critical note: Only those things go on your calendar that have to be done on at specific time. The GTD mentality, is that you choose what the next best thing to do, given the context of where you’re at. Since items on the calendar have to be done at a specific time/date that’s when they get scheduled. You don’t put frivolous things there.

There’d be some tab on the upper right to switch to your week view.

A crappier (and took my poor skills forever) idea of perhaps what the “collection” phase would look like:

You’d probably still need a widget of when the app is closed (to add stuff on the fly).

A bucket is where you hold different items before you process them.

The time reminder is how long it’s been since you handled that bucket.

You need to track what different buckets you have (and remember to empty them regularly). Otherwise you don’t trust your system.

Some of these buckets are electronic - such as your Apple Mail inbox that you built that’s a “smart folder”. Some might be folders on your system - you’d toss documents there that you mean to give to specific projects (and iGTD would spotlight tag these items - and automove them to a folder structure on your machine - keeping your documents organized).

Some would be physical, like the voice recorder in my Treo phone, the basket where I toss my bills when I get home, or the notebook you keep by your bed, in case you get a brilliant idea in the middle of the night.

Travel and Blogging don't mix

2006-09-27T04:27:01Z

Since the finalists were announced, I’ve been in a heavy travel period, which is crazy insane. I think it’s worthwhile to know about the human being behind this stuff.

5 trips in less than 2 weeks:
State college, PA to home (outside of philly) to NYC (for a week) back to philly (for less than 48 hours), and back to NYC (now).

Know what? It’s been taking for-ev-er to keep up. The hotel I’m at, doesn’t permit outgoing mail, I’m sick, and my clients here want me from 8am to 4pm (and if you look at my posts you’ll see that I’m a night person.)

Know who Artie Lange is? He’d say Waaaaaa and make fun of me. (link nsfw, full of bad language)

But there's this Other App Out there....

2006-09-26T11:38:22Z

I see the problem of coming in first in the first round of voting.

Suddenly, several threads (or responses in threads) try to find flaws in iGTD, and pick “Someone else is doing it/already doing it”

Which is funny, because they think I haven’t considered or tried either Midnight Beep, or read the OmniGroup’s blog

First off, it’s MyDreamApp - Not Omnigroups, not Midnight beeps version (or the other two real GTD software out there for the mac.

They’re both good groups, don’t get me wrong (I own some Omni Software), but they’re not this group of developers. Part of what attracted me to this contest is how fast (and how chocolatety good) these developers are in their design in execution.

By, the way, since I’m actually using a Getting Things Done system, let me mention it. It’s called Thinking Rock, it’s cross platform, and free. It’s decent, I’ve influenced it in a number of ways, but since it will always be a Linux+Xp+OSX version, it will not be the panacea of a True Mac OSX/Leopard, ultra Cool pieces of software.

As long as we’re talking software that’s out there….

Kinkless uses OmniOutliner and Applescript. I tried it. It was incredibly awkward (this is me being nice) - it’s really a Kludge - trying to make a piece of software ‘fit’ what you want it to do. In this case it’s using applescript. But it gets mentioned on almost all the lists of MacGTD software. Which is horrible - because, really, it’s awkward as hell - using the wrong tool for the job. If you’re using this, do yourself a favor - go download Thinking Rock.

Now, let’s talk OmniGroup. I use Omni Outliner. It’s the backbone of kinkless (see above paragraph.) How many of you use any of the Omnigroup software (keep your hand up a sec…). How many people use OmniWeb? Wait, are you sure none of you use Omniweb (aside from that one guy in the back?). Why not? Two reasons, are likely - one, it’s good but not great (Opera is faster, Firefox has plugins galore, and Safari is decent); and almost every other browser is free.

Omnigroup makes good software; but not every one is a hit. Who knows if what they’re going to make will be an implementation of GTD or a general ‘task manager’. Who knows if it’s just their outliner with some bells and whistles. And most important who knows when or if ever come out?.

You want to say “oh, there’s something out there. At least pick something that is out there: MidnightBeep

Now, I like Midnight Beep. He gets it. Wait. The software is unusable in it’s current “beta.” It should really, really be an Alpha. Beta software ought to be “We’re getting the bugs out.” This is still not even something you can really try. What I like is the adherence to the whole GTD philosophy. What lacks (for me), are that there are no real world considerations for the Collection/inbox phase (like the pad of paper I carry, that I need to be reminded to actually look over), no sort of syncing (although private correspondence with Mark Harris, the developer indicates he’s thinking big), and zero web component. In my opinion this is the closest thing to what GTD on the Mac should be like (I like his interface) Did I mention that right now almost unusable?

There’s more. If you want to poke holes and say “It’s Yet Another Productivity App”, don’t forget to look at EaskTask Manager

I like it. It’s getting closer; it has ical sync. Where it fails: I can’t “take it with me.” I can’t get it on my ipod or my .Mac account. And it doesn’t have a very good review process. It’s far less Maclike than I’d like. And where Thinking Rock Shines on the collection process; it just doesn’t exist here.

There’s another app out there too….Frictionless. I tried this, the author “gets” GTD…and it’s a bit broken. He hasn’t updated since March, and I don’t expect any new updates. He just quit.

Other items/methods:

iCommit web based, Tiddlywiki, voodoo pad, yojimbo, Devonthink - they’re all trying to be end all/be alls to everyone. They’re good tools, just not the full implementation that GTD needs/demands.

In Summary, you know what, you can do GTD with freaking index cards.

Why should you use iGTD?

Because, the major idea, (a post later today about this), is that it should guide you through> how to get started with a GTD app; and be an “i” app - no manual necessary.

Thank you all for your votes....

2006-09-24T07:49:24Z

Whether or not I make further rounds, I am humbled to be at the top after the first round of eliminations.

Now, of course, for those who have been kind enough to have faith in me, I’m going to have to somehow find time to push the idea into areas you can visualize a bit better. I’m also going to address the apps similar to iGTD, in great detail.

Don’t take that I don’t have my favorites (I do - I know the apps that I really like that are in the contest); as well as ones that I think have horrible flaws; but I think it’d be disingenuous to give my opinion on such, unless someone asks.

…And thanks again.

Do you procrastinate?

2006-09-21T11:28:19Z

Are you a procrastinator? Do you struggle to move forward the things you care about in life? Then you should seriously look into the GTD approach (gee, sounds cultish, doesn’t it?)

Software from this contest ought to be judged based on two criteria…

How feasible is it to make the software, what sort of market is there for the software.

In other words, I know your vote counts…. and I’m trying to encourage you to vote for iGTD

Feasiblity
This is the critical edge. How easily can your software be brought to market?

I sat down and looked, really, really looked at what sort of possibilities. I took ten minutes (don’t just vote, be an informed voter) and put the list of the apps in order based on the reality of what they do… and saw some startling surprises. I think that a bunch of the apps will be difficult (some almost impossible) to develop. I’ve worked closely with programmers for 20+ years; I hear their frustrations when it’s difficult to implement something the designer thought was “easy”.

I’m not going to share that list with you. I think you need to make your own list. Besides, it’s too early to poke holes in other people’s dreams.

What I will share is that iGTD would be fairly easy to design (sure eye candy is nice, and I have ideas about eye candy…) but the GTD process is well defined.

Collect, Process, Organize, Do, Review.

That’s it. It’s the moving of your Next Possible Actions of any given Project forward.

Market
There are two markets out there. People who use GTD and people who don’t know about it.

Market one is easy - If you’ve adopted the GTD program, and have a Mac you’re going to buy this software.

I am an early adopter. I had a 128k Mac, a first generation iPod and a first Generation Tivo. There are lots of people using GTD. Just type GTD into Google and you’ll know. I’m telling you, that if you’ve never heard of GTD before this contest, within the year, someone you know, will have picked it up and it will revolutionize the way they order their life.

I hear the voice in your head: But Jeff, what about the people who don’t use GTD?. iGTD will walk them through two or three prebuilt, realistic project, such as Finding a new Vet, getting the oil changed in your car, or Improving their finances, by showing them how the whole workflow works.

Best of luck to everyone, I’ve made my votes.

Crap. I have a day job that I have to wake up early for.

2006-09-21T05:50:36Z

It’s 1am, I haven’t blogged since Sunday…when I was in State college PA. Early (5am) Mon morning, I headed up to NYC for work (and I’ll be here all week.) Earlier this week, I got two hours of sleep. I’m a late night person, regardless of when I have to be up. So, over sun-tues, I had 9 hours of sleep. Go figure why I’m exhausted.

Meanwhile, if anyone is headed to the NYC FCPUG group meeting, it’s likely I’ll be there tomorrow night….

I let myself have a night off - I went to see some live comedy - I’m a big live comedy fan; and I stayed for four hours (which was a mistake. 2 hours max. You get bored of laughing over that) I saw Colin Quinn do a set and Dave Atell. Colin, I’m assuming was trying out new material (so he sorta sucked.) Dave Atell was better.

I carry a notepad (better for drawing examples than my palm); and I’ve started writing some iGTD ideas down.

So, I’m going to dump the contents here to help you get an idea of some thoughts (far from all) that i have about GTD. These are not organized - it’s just to give you an idea of some thoughts I had while I was killing time.

1) I like a wire sorta basket for the icon of “Collect”
The collection phase ought to be able to handling the digital world and the physical world. What do I mean?
Well, remember, the “collect’ phase is the gathering of all your different incoming items (that need to be processed) - Dave Allen uses the term “Bucket”

Always empty your buckets- I struggle because I have a number of them:
notes in my treo, my small notebook I carry (pocket sized), my treo’s ‘recorder’ function, my actual email inbox (A mailbox in mail that I designate. One or several - including the possibility of a smart mailbox), a folder I have for documents I need to sort (more than one, smart mailboxes as well, a wire inbox at home (with bills, etc in it).

So, iGTD needs to be able to automatically monitor the electronic ones, and also have a representation of the physical one to remind you to go empty them. They probably ought to have a context (remember the GTD system physically needs to know where you are - so you have only the things in front of your face that apply to that context), so when you get home, you are reminded to ‘check’ that bucket. .

Which brings up the whole context issue - I think lots of cool icons/settings of the app, depending on your context.

Should the app sorta slide down from your menu bar area…or be invoked by an Fkey? should it be always active? Or just a collection tool all the time (like a widget) and the main app is available when you launch it?

2) Definitely a n00b overview (sorry newbies. Just too old not to get a chance to use 3l33t vernacular).

Should it be just an instruction screen (as an overlay)? A ‘wizard’ walking you through a simple action? (Like setting up and registering the software?)

The app ought to be both comprehensive and an easy introduction for new users as well as migrators. This is a major differentiator between iGTD and anything else.

Look at how much explaining of what GTD does I had to do here? We want people to adopt iGTD (hey, an amazon link to the book would be smart too.)

3) I like this procrastination hack 10+2×5. Let’s build this in. There’s also a 48 minute timer over at lifehacker.

In fact, this makes me want to call the app; iGTD (lifehacker). It’s supposed to help you hack your whole life.

4) Part of it all, is tracking “information”, so let’s add some type of lists:
A to read list; a to watch list (movies + TV), an to buy list; a to learn list. Let’s make all of that recognizable via drag and drop (for order and priority); sortable, and hotlink to amazon, imdb, or whatever the item is, if it has a web presence.

5) I definitely need to post here based on:
Collect, Process, Organize, Do, Review.

Strong review is key

6) How should I differential context? an icon? a full colored theme? Should you be asked when you fire up the app “Where are you?”

Ok, I’ve been at this too long. The hotel bed looks good. G’nite all your judges, finalist and posters.

It's a Workflow, not a to do list. Or perhaps, maybe a cult.

2006-09-17T15:11:24Z

(if you haven’t read this, please read it first.)

Ok, you get the idea that you might need some structure.

What should that structure be?

You need to:
Collect every stray piece of idea/scrap/thing

Process those things.
Some should be done right away. (If it takes less than 2 min, just do it.)
Some should be deferred till later (next step - most of your things)
Some, someone else should do.
Some, should should be put into cold storage.

Organize.
Most of those things you deferred (that will take actual time and effort) end up here.
You need to figure out which of these things are Projects (most things you’re procrastinating about are this; they’ll have multiple steps.)

It’s critical you figure out the Next Action for each project (vs. just “Do it”) It should be something physically possible. If you can’t actually “DO” the thing, if it takes multiple steps, it’s a Project

Every single Next Action needs a context. Many Actions can only be done at a specific location - online, at work, at home. You should only see a specific Action based on the Context you’re currently in.

Some, you’re going to have to wait for someone else to get back to you (that you’ve delegated). You track this and review it regularly.
Many of them, don’t belong in your day to day structure (Like “Learn a Martial Art”). They need to be reviewed, maybe monthly, but shouldn’t sit in your daily field of vision.

Now, get to work. DO STUFF!
Start doing some of those “Next Actions” based on where you are (the context.) Some may be urgent, you know which ones they are; some aren’t. Some you don’t have the energy right now for…the idea is you learn to trust your ability to pick the best “Next Action” to do.

None of this works, if you don’t actually DO STUFF.

Review
On a regular basis is this discipline of review:
Regularly, (some parts daily, some weekly, some monthly) you review everything. Think of it as seeing the forest for the trees.

Every day, take a quick look at your projects - this is a ground level view.
Once a week, make sure nothing is being ignored - that people got back to you, that important projects are moving forward - this is looking from 1000 feet up.
Once a month, look further ahead - should you plan vacation? Should you think about moving. - This is the 10,000 feet view.
Several times a year - review and ask yourself, what big new things do I want or changes I want to make in my life - this is looking at the entire picture of where you’re going in life.

And as all of this is going on, new stuff is going into the system, that you have to integrate.

You have to constantly: Collect scraps, process them (to figure out where they belong), Organize them (to figure out what the Next Action should be); DO THEM; and Review Regularly.

Above all else, you end up with a system you can Trust

You. Who doesn't get GTD. Read this.

2006-09-17T14:44:56Z

Hey You.
Yeah, you who doesn’t get (and maybe doesn’t care about) GTD, and wondering what’s it about…I’m going to fill you in.

Frankly, I have to sell you an idea.

That’s right. The big secret. Coming up is everything that’s part of the basic system (and you won’t have to buy a damn thing.)

But first, I’m going to throw in a quote here. Kristen, a dear friend, once said to me, when I felt totally overwhelmed:

“Even an Elephant can be eaten, just one bite at a time.”

It really resonated with me. I felt overwhelmed by crap in my life because I was trying to eat Elephants, and just didn’t realize it.

I want you to take a moment and think about all the things in your life that you want to do.

You see, your problem is twofold:

First, is clutter. You’re cluttering your brain with all sorts of stuff, because you don’t have a system you trust. You make notebooks, carry Palm Organizers, create folders and ideas lists…and only small parts of them actually happen.

Second, you try to eat Elephants.
You make a to do list. To do lists fail.
Have you ever looked at your todo list and seen a couple of the big things on it and go, “I’ll do that later.” And then it goes on tomorrow’s list. And the next day’s list. And you keep this up until either it’s at critical mass or that you delete it?

It’s because you made a mistake - one that causes you to procrastinate or just ignore those things that you try and do in life.

Your mistake is what should and shouldn’t be on your to do list

I can hear you thinking, c’mon Jeff, that’s pretty simple. Yeah, if it’s so simple, why do so many people adopt this workflow? With a passion, no less? It’s because nobody ever sat down and gave them (or you) a system. It leaves no piece in your life unturned. And for the first time (for 99% of us) we can relax, and see everything.

In fact, you shouldn’t ever use a To Do list. There are many things on your ‘list’ that are actually projects. Read that again. (Here’s your Elephant.)

You should be figuring out instead what the Next Action you can do is. If you can’t physically “do” something, and/or it has multiple steps, it’s a project, not an action!
You should have a list of Next Actions instead (and it’s not the same!).

And those Next Actions you can take (to forward all of your projects), they’re very specific. Some you can only do at work. Some at home. Some you can only do at the Supermarket or on the phone. Why should you even look at your “home” items when you’re at “work?”

If you said, “So I don’t forget”, it’s because you don’t trust your system.

So, if you can relate, you should be using Getting Things Done.

It’s not a To Do list. It’s not an index card system. It’s not a database.

It’s a workflow

Coming up…..A breakdown of the workflow.