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27 Sep 06
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It’s all about creative flow - block that flow anywhere along its route, and the input will get blocked too
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For photographers, your tank can be a folder to keep your photos in and a copy of Picasa. The important part is knowing that you’ll go through them and do something with them
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If you draw, a sketchbook might do the job, but make sure you have some plan in place for how it will be processed. You have to go through it and find the good stuff, otherwise it’s not a tank, its just a drain
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trying to write, make sure you have somewhere to park ideas and bits of potential material. I just use Microsoft Outlook tasks in categories to make lists. I have a category for Article Ideas, and one called Compost. Compost is for little ideas I have, that aren’t articles in themselves, and for snips of stuff I’ve read elsewhere and found interesting - I turn them over every so often and hope they’ll compost down into something fertile. Once I start writing an article, it goes into a different list again for active articles, and I can raid the Compost for material. When I want to work on something, there’s a list right there. When I find an interesting article somewhere else, there’s somewhere to store it, and I know I’ll come across it later
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It doesn’t matter if you don’t really want to do GTD as such. Just make sure you work out how your tank will work, and make sure you can trust it. This is the important part. Your brain has to trust the flow of your system.
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If the output is only going to be on sometimes, but you need the input to stay unblocked, you need a storage tank in the middle
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An output. Clear the output, and the inputs will just arrive on their own
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If anything blocks the flow, stopping your ideas becoming an expression, the ideas will clog up too - you’ll stop having ideas.
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the key to GTD is that you’re creating a flow from your ideas to your outputs
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