Quickly I built up a list of personal projects from organising my summer holiday to making an appointment to see the dentist. To help manage these projects I divided them up into “home” and “work”. I also loved the idea of organising anything that required two or more steps becoming a project and could be added to an organised list of projects. I completely bought into the idea I could only perform tasks in either a particular location, with a particular person or with a particular tool, and if I was not in the right location, with the right person with the right tool I could ignore those lists and only look at lists that gave me tasks I could perform based on where I was, with whom and with what. And over a two year period (yep, it took that long to fully implement the best practices of GTD) I refined and re-engineered my whole productivity system. It’s a fantastic book for a productivity nerd like me and it catapulted me away from an analogue system (an A5 Franklin Planner) into the digital world. Back in 2009, I read David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD). Let’s step back eleven years for a moment. I very quickly came to the realisation that I don’t actually need these at all. Things like why am I using contexts? Why do I need to organise things by projects? My answers surprised me. It was comprehensive and for the first time in a long time, I questioned a lot of my assumptions. Over the winter break, I began a full review of my productivity and time management system.
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