Get Everything Done

First of all, I must say that GTD saved my life and helped me track much more than I would have been able to- had I not had a system. Now, I am excited to implement DIT due to its simplicity and focus on action. It has been well documented on this forum, but GTD may not be for me because I tended to use the system to procrastinate, here at least with DIT I am taking baby steps towards initiatives.

Even before DIT I had broken my contexts down to Errands, Office, and Home just because I would rarely use any of the others that DA proposes. The system was too complicated. I like the idea of going even simpler.

So here I go trying to implement DIT while carefully dismantling the GTD System I created. I sincerely would appreciate any advice from users of DIT to let me know if I am on target. Note, I have not read the book yet. I tried to buy it last week, and I found it wasn’t available in the US until November. I have it coming soon from a library from another state.

My first step feels like moving projects to my Someday/Maybe list that aren’t truly Current Initiatives. This will allow me to redefine “Projects” to a Current Initiateves list which I can work off, “one at a time”. My next actions and SDMB list will be worked off of as a backlog until I get current.

I like the idea of trimming the SDMB list and cleaning it up because I am sick of the “overhead costs” that my GTD system requires.

So let me get this straight:
Each night I will create my closed list for the next day (in my case based off of current Next Actions and my Current Initiative) and put a rule line at the bottom. Creating these closed lists from the previous days input and backlog.

I think that should do it, does this sound correct to DIT users?

Thanks,
Erik

Hi Erik,

My view is you neither need to dismantle your GTD system nor surrender the gains that you reaped as a consequence of it.

Your summary of DIT seems accurate to me. Make a list of things to do tomorrow and put a line under it.

I waited more than a month to get a copy of the book from amazon.com. Subsequently, I have read here numerous times that Mark Forster recommends that you go to the amazon site but buy it from sellers other than amazon in order to receive it sooner.

There is no substitute for the book. I reread it all the time.

Good luck,

moises