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40hz:
5 Minutes! How are you that fast!
 :tellme
-TaoPhoenix (April 21, 2013, 08:12 AM)
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Maybe because I don't have that much on my plate? ;D

More seriously, it got shorter the more often I did it. It originally took about 15-20 minutes. Now (since I'm more focused) I don't feel the need to write as much down. I'm not compiling documentation for a biography. Or for somebody else. These are purely notes to help me.

I've found once you stop making notes for posterity they tend to be short and to the point. And not all of them are written. Little sketches, diagrams, my collection of purely personal hieroglyphs and symbols, etc. also make up a lot of my entries. The journal book I chose has 1/4" graph paper for precisely that reason. Next one I get will probably have blank pages to provide a psychological cue for me to keep it all loose and fluid.

It's also a daybook. I'll throw anything in there I think I should be attending to at various times of the day. The only rule is that I do at least one summary entry per day. The rest I play by ear. My GF refers to this book as my "other other head."  :mrgreen: That's a very accurate description of the function it serves.
 8)

TaoPhoenix:
Great notes gang!

Nice clarification about the life goals vs tasks. I'm in a fuzzy new part of my own life which just rendered most of my previous goals obsolete!  :tellme:

So see you on the adventure!

Tinman57:
  I'm one of those people that can't very well use a GTD in a timely fashion.  Because of my disability, I'm not always able to get those things done.  So on the days that I'm able to get things done, I start on the things that need to be done ASAP, like housework or yardwork.  Only thing I can do is try to get as much done as I possibly can, when I can.  Yeah, it really does suck.  I've always been one of those people that was always doing something in my spare time, getting things done.  So it's really hard for me to have to watch time go by as I can do nothing at that time....

TaoPhoenix:

And right in time, comes xkcd with his usual brilliant take!

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/is_it_worth_the_time.png

xtabber:
Task management software works best as a simple resource to remind the user of what he/she wants to do, not as a traffic cop laying out a schedule and enforcing it. To my way of thinking, one of the most useful features of any task management software is floating events, which simply roll over to the next day, keeping all of their settings, if not completed when originally scheduled.

The original Palm organizer remains the (mostly unmatched) benchmark for today’s PIM software. Pimlico Software’s Datebook, which Handspring included in the Treo, the model for today’s smartphones, added floating events among other enhancements to the Palm organizer. Pimlical for Android and PC, from the same author, includes floating events, as does DTG. but few other task managers do.

A huge advantage of Android smartphones over the iPhone, IMO, is the availability of home screen widgets.  I have both DTG’s widget and Agenda Widget Plus on the home screen of my Android phone.  While Agenda Widget Plus can also display DTG tasks, I prefer to keep tasks and schedule separate. Whenever I look at my phone, which is many times a day, I have everything I need right there to remind me of what I need to do, and when.

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