Comments on: GTD: priorities and fake due dates

By: jmproffitt

jmproffitt — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:28:56 +0000

Thanks for posting this, Todd. I'm not a rabid GTD follower, but I like the ideas and use pieces of them. And I've always WANTED to set priorities for things, but always felt like a failure every time something else comes up and knocks me off the path I wanted to follow.

I think what I need more than anything is a rapidly-cycling "review" process of my lists to keep me oriented. That would probably be more useful than setting priorities.

And I totally agree with your notion of only setting deadline dates when they're real, not imagined.

Thanks for sharing!

By: toddmundt

toddmundt — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:14:50 +0000

Dan – I'll check it out. I think I may have done so at one point, but I'll take a closer look. Thanks!

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:37:48 +0000

For implementing GTD you might try out this web-based application. It has both priorities and contexts, and you can combine them how it works best for you:

http://www.gtdagenda.com

You can use it to manage your goals, projects and tasks, set next actions and contexts, use checklists, schedules and a calendar.
A mobile version and iCal are available too.

Hope you like it.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:44:56 +0000

Good points Todd. I too have found myself imposing schedule date in order to attempt to force an action or project and end up over booking every day. I too have been leaving my system daily feeling I have failed in some manner. I never really thought of them as 'fake due dates' but they really are.

I'm still stuck in trying to work with priorities since they do come into play after context, time available, and energy but maybe I should reconsider. The first thing I am doing at work is remove any non-deadline scheduled dates and try to get back to the a more pure GTD solution.

Thanks