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GTD Dictionary: Next Actions [Organize IT]
Action:
Organized activity to accomplish an objective
The most important work or activity in a specific field or area
Next actions are the next physical steps you need to take to move a project. When you look at a project it can often be difficult to determine where to start. That’s why you take time to define [...]
GTD Dictionary: Contexts [Organize IT]
Context
The circumstances in which an event occurs; a setting
That which surrounds, and gives meaning to, something else
GTD encourages the use of contexts to break down long and expansive to-do lists. Without them where would you start? What would you choose to do at any particular time? By breaking down your lists according to different settings [...]
GTD Dictionary: Weekly Review [Organize IT]
Review:
to examine with an eye to criticism or correction
the process of going over a subject again in study so as to fix it in the memory or summarize the facts
The weekly review in GTD is one of the key elements, and also one of the hardest to implement efficiently. While most aspects of GTD [...]
GTD Dictionary: Stuff [Organize IT]
Stuff:
property, as personal belongings or equipment; things.
worthless things or matter: to clean the stuff out of a closet.
Stuff is everything bouncing around our heads, in letters, voicemails and notes that don’t have places for them. They are not formed into something actionable and the desired outcome is far from clear.
All that stuff rattling around [...]