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Wed, 20 Dec 2006

bluesock upgrade almost done....

I decided that one of the things I would do during "winter break" was to upgrade the hardware that bluesock.org sits on. There were a couple of minor issues, but otherwise the upgrade has gone very very smoothly. This time around, I'm writing up a massive "everything about this server" document. I think I may build a template out of it since it's the sort of thing that would be useful for other machines I have. It's much easier to deal with all the machines when I have an accounting of what went into them.

Anyhow, bluesock.org now has twice the oomph. Unfortunately, "upgrade bluesock" took several days to do, but it was only a single item in my todo list of around 25 items. I need to start adding items like "pat yourself on the back" and "take a nap" to my todo list--items that don't take too long to do and aren't as torturous when you look at a list of 25 of them.

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Posted by Anonymous Coward on Thu Jan 11 23:41:39 2007
Ahh the old 2 day todo item eh.. sounds like you need some GTD lovin. basically your TODO becomes a few seperate lists... IN, Projects (anything that requires more that one step!), Next Actions, Some Day Maybe and Waiting For.

Your IN can be more than one place, usually email, a physical in tray, and i also have a text file called IN where i put actual things that need to be done.. not notes about things.

Projects are any items that require more that one step to complete. The trick with Projects is that you only place items in your project list that you are currently interested and motivated to do right now... The Some Day Maybe list is the place for Projects that you want to do just not this week say.

The Next Actions list is the place to put single actionable items from each of the Projects in your Projects list.

And finally the Waiting For list is where you put things that you are waiting on some body else for...

This is a poor summary, check out the google resutls below.

http://www.google.com/search?q=gtd

Cheers.


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