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A Different Way To View Multi-tasking

Everyone knows that multi-tasking makes you less efficient. That’s sooo 2005. But maybe multi-tasking isn’t that bad. Maybe the problem lies in what we’re multi-tasking. Instead of trying to juggle different tasks, maybe we could switch between different physical contexts of life like social, mental and spiritual. D*I*Y Planner has a blueprint for this, and ...

Jumbled To-Do Lists: Productivity’s Dirty Little Secret?

Today I just decided to do something different. For one day I’m throwing GTD contexts out the window in my daily planning. No disrespect to The David, I’m just switching it up for a bit. I’ve got a theory. Contexts are ways to organize what you have to do into the tools or locations you ...

Stupid Stoplights Help Explain GTD

The stoplights in my town are something to be desired. (That’s the nicest thing I could think of without using four and five letter words.) Ok, ok… they suck. Bad. At night, they’re exponentially worse. Here’s why: for some odd reason, the sensors don’t work right late at night. I can’t tell you how many ...