Comments on: GTD – The PigPog Method

By: Cathy

Cathy — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:15:32 +0000

May I suggest you make this part more prominent on your web page: maybe put these words in bold, or repeat them at the top, or put a heading "Here's how to do it" immediately above them:

"if your project was ‘Conquer Albania’, and the first action was ‘Place Army Wanted Ad’, the item on your tasks list would be Place Army Wanted Ad {Conquer Albania}. Your project and its associated next action are there together on the one line.... Once you’ve placed the ad, you just edit the item to Responses to Ad {Conquer Albania}, and move it to your @Waiting For list."

I had read your page before, and was skimming it before giving someone a link to it, and had a hard time finding what I considered to be the essential gist of your method (i.e. the part above) which on your page is hidden in the last part of the last paragraph of a section.

Just a suggestion.

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By: GTD Wannabe

GTD Wannabe — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks for the link to my outlook macros! I’m still using them everyday; absolutely love them. Outlook is so much easier to deal with when you have macros to eliminate the dross

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I don't get the pleasure of looking at a bunch of crossed-through tasks! What should I do?

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By: pigpogm

pigpogm — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I have to admit it's a bit of a problem. If you get a kick out of the process of crossing out or ticking off tasks, this trick kind of robs you of that.

What system do you use?

For Outlook, there's the macros that GTD Wannabe has made (linked in the article) that automate duplicating the task so you can mark the duplicate as complete, and carry on with the original.
With paper, I guess you could always keep a seperate list to write down your 'achievements' or 'wins' each day/week/whatever.

I found I never really looked back at the history anyway, so I just stopped worrying about it. It would be nice to have, but the extra overhead to keep it didn't seem worth it.

By: marshmallowcreme

marshmallowcreme — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

That Outlook macro sounds great, I will have to check it out.

In The Ten Natural Laws of Time and Life Management by Hyrum Smith (founder of Franklinquest, who made the Franklin dayplanner), he said a study found that the process of checking an item off a todo list actually causes your brain to release endorphines. If this is so, I'm missing out on a lot of brain candy by not putting a little checkmark in a little box! However, I have a feeling that the same process in your brain that recognizes the little checkmark as something accomplished would also recognize that the changing of one action to another signifies that something has been accomplished...

Hmmm... It just occurred to me that I can get high by drawing checkmarks into a bunch of little boxes! There goes my afternoon!

Thanks for the macro tip.

Warm regards, Marshall Sontag