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• 03 Nov 09
  

  Mary Hillis

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  Douglas Riesenberg
• 24 Mar 09
  

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  The application of GTD principles for college students.

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• 15 Feb 09
  

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• 10 Feb 09
  

  Terry Elliott

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  • The GTDCS approach emphasises relaxation. You wake-up. You see what’s on your plate for the day, make a plan, then follow it. During the work hours you work, otherwise you relax. When new obligations get introduced into your life they’re immediately collected and soon processed. Many students identify the first few days of the semester as their favorite. Why? Because there are no obligations yet. No deadlines or due dates have been injected into their life. You can relax, and enjoy the sense of possibility. GTDCS aims to make every day feel like the first.
• 04 Nov 08
  

  Johan Larsson

  Here, we present our variation of GTD, optimized for the specific challenges of college. We call the full system: Getting Things Done for College Students (GTDCS).

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• 01 Sep 08
  

  Dizzy Dizzy

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• 24 Aug 08
  

  Keith Chapman

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  jim randolph

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• 26 Feb 08
  

  Matt Vance
• 10 Feb 08
  

  beautyegg

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  • Materials
  • Three collection bins: your e-mail inbox, a physical inbox on your desk, and a small notepad you carry with you everywhere.
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  • • • A calendar
      • Next action list
      • Project list
      • A filing system
    • “stuff” enters your world you need to immediately place it in one of your three collection bins
    • Decide if the action
    • Identify the specific next action required by this item
    • calendar
    • next actions
    • the daily review (”runway level” in GTD speak), the weekly review (”10,000 foot level”), and the big picture review (”the 30,000 foot level”).
    • in your collection bins
    • once a day
    • date-sensitive tasks on your calendar
    • next actions list
    • get updated on your action landscape
    • designate to be work hours
    • Once gain, trust me here: the less work you do at night, the better
• 11 Jan 08
  

  Cheryl

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  • fatigue-induced pseudo-work, where your free time mashes in with your work time, and the whole thing becomes a jumbled mess of exhaustation.
  • Make no distinction between work and personal life. Stuff is stuff…it has to get out of your head.
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  • • At least once a day you need to process the items that built up in your collection bins, review the date-sensitive tasks on your calendar, make a run-through your next actions list, and, in general, get updated on your action landscape. This daily refresh is crucial to keeping the system effective.
    • Here, once again, however, we must move beyond GTD to handle some issues specific to the student lifestyle. First we must engage the question of when to do the weekly review. Unequivocally, the answer is: Sunday morning. Drag your sorry, hungover self out of bed, get breakfast, then tackle your review while fueled by that wonderful first cup of coffee. The reason you do it in the morning is that you have a full, empty day ahead for you to catch-up on work. (The reason you do it Sunday instead of Saturday is because if you’re working all day Saturday
    • Break up each of these assignments into specific actions, each requiring no more than 1 to 2 hours.
    • Furthermore, by planning the full week in advance you are able to spread out your work intelligably — avoiding work pile-ups when multiple deadlines coincide.
    • A final note: for long-term assignments, such as term papers, that require more than a week to complete, you should introduce them originally as a traditional project, allowing you to make progress on them in advance. When you enter the last week before their due date you can then treat the remaining work as a weekly assignment and schedule as above.
    • In GTD, you do a big picture review once or twice a year. In GTDCS, we designate the beginning of a new semester as the ideal time to accomplish such introspection. This is a perfect time to reflect both on the big questions — e.g., “Am I doing the things that are important to me?” — as well as the longterm — e.g., “I need to start searching for an internship this semester?”
    • The GTDCS approach emphasises relaxation. You wake-up. You see what’s on your plate for the day, make a plan, then follow it. During the work hours you work, otherwise you relax. When new obligations get introduced into your life they’re immediately collected and soon processed. Many students identify the first few days of the semester as their favorite. Why? Because there are no obligations yet. No deadlines or due dates have been injected into their life. You can relax, and enjoy the sense of possibility. GTDCS aims to make every day feel like the first.
• 27 Dec 07
  

  theleftfielder

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• 07 Dec 07
  

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  Darrel Branson

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• 06 Dec 07
  

  mitt squinter

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  Clint Kennedy

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  Chris Betcher

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• 04 Oct 07
  

  viv zhang

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  • Materials
  • • Three collection bins: your e-mail inbox, a physical inbox on your desk, and a small notepad you carry with you everywhere.
    • A calendar
    • Next action list
    • Project list
    • A filing system
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  • • Collection
    • when new “stuff” enters your world you need to immediately place it in one of your three collection bins.
    • Processing
    • the only difference being that we skip some options (such as delegate, or the more complicated Tickler File, that are less relevant to students).
    • 1. Decide if the action requires action on your part. If it doesn’t, either discard it or, if it’s something you need to hold on to, file it. Otherwise…
      2. Identify the specific next action required by this item. If it requires more than one action then identify the first of these actions and make a note of the bigger project on your projects list. If this action can be completed in two minutes or less, do it right now. Otherwise…
      3. If the action needs to be completed on or by a given date, record it on this date in your calendar. Otherwise…
      4. Record the action on your next actions list.
      
      
      
      

      Reviewing

    • The Daily Review:
    • • Check your calender to see if any date-specific actions remain. If so, tackle these first. Otherwise…
      • Turn to your next actions list and choose something appropriate.
    • The Weekly Review:
    • now is the time to process everything and get your mind free once again. It’s also a time to review your next action lists and clean them up where necessary (consolidate actions, add some, delete some)

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