GTD in 15 Minutes: A Pragmatic Guide to Getting Things Done

by Erlend Hamberg

Its aim is to make you have 100% trust in a system for collecting tasks, ideas, and projects—both

Very key to the system. The busier you are, the more you have to trust the system.

The next action needs to be a physical and visible action.

Another key point.

If you have regular meetings with people, it can be beneficial to have “agenda contexts”—one for each person—where you note down the things you want to talk about during the next meeting as you think of them. For example, if you have a weekly meeting with Foobert, you might consider having a “@ Foobert Agenda” context. These contexts will of course change as your team/managers/supervisor, etc. change.

I’m not sure how useful this type of context would be for me. Most people I have things to discuss are people I see daily; others are people that I reach out to whenever I have something to discuss.

When doing the weekly review it can be a good idea to work through a “trigger list”. A trigger list is simply a list of key words to “trigger” your brain to remember any open loops you still haven’t captured in your system.

Lifehacker’s trigger list for students. You probably want to customize your own

https://lifehacker.com/use-a-weekly-review-list-to-stay-a-step-ahead-this-seme-5611657 This is a great idea and, even though it is over 12 years old, this list is a good starting place.