Comments on: How is a Next Action List Different from a To Do List? https://gettingthingsdone.com/2011/02/how-is-a-next-action-list-different-from-a-to-do-list/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-is-a-next-action-list-different-from-a-to-do-list David Allen's GTD® Methodology Wed, 04 Jun 2014 22:24:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Andy https://gettingthingsdone.com/2011/02/how-is-a-next-action-list-different-from-a-to-do-list/#comment-3140 Sun, 06 Mar 2011 22:54:39 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/2011/02/10/#comment-3140 Yes, just one thing Paul. What on earth are you on about?!

]]> By: Paul Garth https://gettingthingsdone.com/2011/02/how-is-a-next-action-list-different-from-a-to-do-list/#comment-3139 Sun, 13 Feb 2011 19:31:45 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/2011/02/10/#comment-3139 For me, a To-Do list (typically a hand-drawn quickie mind-map) is my simple cross-reference to a specific action within one of my categories (@Home, @Computer).

It’s my way of fast-tracking my conscious awareness of a Next Action that’s needing attention, quickly highlighting something out of the other items within the Category.

In other words, I don’t have separate To-Do lists that have not already been collected and processed into my trusted system. I’ve tried this and it doesn’t work! – this degrades from the trusted system concept.

What I’ve found is that ad hoc interruptions play mind-games with completion of my hand-picked To-Do lists, so I invariably fall back to my full inventory of categorized items anyway. For me, pure GTD is not about To-Do lists, so I use them in perspective.

The To-Do list is useful for me as a portable device (scrap letter-size paper, hand cut into squares), for running about when I can’t take my laptop.

Hope that helped someone.

]]> By: Nuno Donato https://gettingthingsdone.com/2011/02/how-is-a-next-action-list-different-from-a-to-do-list/#comment-3138 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:36:45 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/2011/02/10/#comment-3138 @Kevin, ahahah :-)
My mother does!! ;)

]]> By: Kevin https://gettingthingsdone.com/2011/02/how-is-a-next-action-list-different-from-a-to-do-list/#comment-3137 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 04:55:21 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/2011/02/10/#comment-3137 Very helpful definition. And it made me think of that Beatles song Your Mother Should Know (about GTD).

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