This is a great venture. I am trying to capture the way I have implemented by GTD system. I am not very organized to tell exactly how the system works for me. I would capture things that catches my attention. Then I may go into the details.
I have defined collection baskets. These are places I get my "thoughts". Outlook is my main collection tool. I get mails I need to process. I have tried many different ways in the past to have a leak proof collection system. Initially I was using "Thinking Rocks" 'F6' collection. I got to know with experience this is duplication. I get my actions in Outlook; then I have to duplicate it to TR. This has the advantage that; I could process all my thoughts at once. In a long run it failed and really ruined my GTD system. Hence I currently use TR's collection just to capture ideas/things that pops up in my mind during a days work.
In Outlook; I forwards mails to myself by setting the category as 'THOUGHTS'. I have also created a simple rule mentioning that all the mail with that category get into the 'THOUGHTS' folder. As I process it, I delete the mail. I am safe, since the original mail is not lost.
Other places I get my todo's are from our bug tracker system, meetings and other telephone calls. All those are mailed to myself or captured in TR.
Once in a while I process all the thoughts collected. While processing the thoughts I create projects and actions. TR offers a good way to filter activities. I go each next actions and complete it. Finally I review the projects and add subsequent actions if required.
One problem I often get into is that, I haven't developed the habit of relying my processing system completly. This is the hurdle which I am overcoming now. I look at Outlook for the tasks I need to do. Obviously it takes slight amount of time to determine what to do. This could be avoided fully if I have a trusted system. Some day I plan to write how to build a trusty system; once I manage to create one.
The weakest link in my processing is the 'WAITING' actions and 'DELEGATED' actions. It is quite difficult to follow it up.
This write up is no where near to completion. But this is what is in my mind now. Perhaps on an another day, I can describe it little better.
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