Next Action Balls 7
current snapshots of my next action balls basket
Originally I wanted to describe my latest and greatest GTD setup here, but then I followed a pointer of Merlin Mann to an article of Mark Wieczorek, who rises the killer question for assigning Next Actions to Contexts:
Can I act on this item as soon as I read it?
This superbly captures the essence of what David Allen is thinking about the @Context lists – and challenges me with some balancing to do between the two forces zen like minimalism and playful hacking upon the system. It’s hard to get rid of habits.
related:
What @actions do you use? – recent thread on Contexts at the GTD forum, CosmoGTD’s posting contains a nice analogy from free jazz, which might be a good idea to consider: you have to learn to play INSIDE first, before you can play OUTSIDE