Comments on: GTD Project List Form v1

By: corriespondent

corriespondent — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:01:24 +0000

Dal – I think GTD has you keep a list of all your ongoing projects which you can review each week to make sure you’re not missing anything. Theoretically your Next Action list would contain all next actions, including those that are related to projects. Then, if you need physical file folders for holding other papers and stuff related to each project (“project support material”), you can have those as well.

My approach is to have my main project lists, separated by work/personal/freelance. The project detail form is really more of a “support material” item than a true next-action list — all of my next actions are in a separate location so I don’t have to look up each project detail form when I want to see what to do next. My project detail form is meant more for brainstorming.

So to go back to more “pure” GTD — you’d have a project list that you would review once a week, a next action list where you put all your next actions (related to projects or single-task items not part of a project) that you review regularly, and optional project support files.

By: dal

dal — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:52:59 +0000

Hi… When talking about projects and keeping tabs on what needs to be done and what is already done, would you say the most basic idea is keeping a list of each project and maybe a file folder for individual projects and their next actions? i consider myself intelligent but for some reason I can’t get a very good grip on GTD even though I desperately want to. Thanks.

By: GTD Project List Form v2 « Corrie Haffly

GTD Project List Form v2 « Corrie Haffly — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:18:10 +0000

[...] Project List Form v2 I [finally!] revised my Project List Form by swapping the positions of the checkbox and code box. This makes it easier to scan the project [...]

By: Kate Davis

Kate Davis — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:46:44 +0000

I like the use of different coloured forms for categorising your projects.

Its important that I am clear what tasks are associated with each company project, particularly in reference to time bookings and conversations with project managers. I hadn’t really thought about how to handle the project list, until this week when I decided I needed to give it a go. My idea was to divide an A5 sheet in two and use each column for each company level project, with each individual project listed below (once the list is complete I will probably use a reference to link it to each task).

Its a similar idea to yours, but certainly not as attractive.