To-Do Lists Are Not the Answer to Getting Things Done
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#2A little markety but seems like good advice.
Personally though I always need a back burner / ice box (think agile) but in part its handling for the fact that I have bad memory and then can relax a little more that I won't forget it.
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#3Steve Blank (2010) Strategy is Not a To Do List
https://steveblank.com/2010/10/07/strategy-is-not-a-to-do-li...
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#4Marketing Material. TLDR; Version: In order to get things done, you don't just make a list. You also add Time (calendar) and Place (if applicable) to the Task.
This is same thing someone (can't remember) said that TODO lists get done only if you also put a time and place to each TODO Task.
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#5Why, he's taken a to-do list and prioritized it and assigned deadlines! Then put those deadlines in the calendar!
Just like pretty much every to-do list suggests you do.
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#6This is a repeat of the famous Getting Things Done book, which covers prioritizing your life through organization and scheduling.
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#7This is a repeat of the famous Getting Things Done book, which covers prioritizing your life through organization and scheduling.
Getting Things Done does not focus on concretely scheduling tasks for specific times and dates, unless I missed a huge piece of that book.
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#8Agreed - I personally have a giant running to-do list which I use to put stuff down on and get out of my head, and then never look at it again.
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#9Why, he's taken a to-do list and prioritized it and assigned deadlines! Then put those deadlines in the calendar! Just like pretty much every to-do list suggests you do.
The whole point of the article is that visualizing time as space on a calendar is qualitatively different than adding todos to a list because it helps us remember that our time is finite. While the finiteness of our time is an obvious fact, it's the kind of thing that many of us 'forget'. I, for one, found this short article valuable.
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#10This is a repeat of the famous Getting Things Done book, which covers prioritizing your life through organization and scheduling.
Getting Things Done does not focus on concretely scheduling tasks for specific times and dates, unless I missed a huge piece of that book.
You're correct, in fact, it warns explicitly assinging a datetime unless it _has_ to be done by then.
That being said, the biggest reason my GTD practice fails is I rarely spend time getting things done, but instead end up grooming an ever-growing to-do list. Assigning datetimes to trigger reminders is tempting...