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In the beginning I found myself in a similar situation, and started looking at the 2 minute rule as more of a guideline, as Mr. Allen points out: Two minutes is in fact just a guideline. If you have a long open window of time in which to process your in-basket, you can extend the cutoff for each item to five or ten minutes. He also points out: Process ...

I use taskwarrior and only some methods of GTD (some tasks are assigned a lot of metadata if they are quite simple). Nevertheless here are my ideas: A simple way to display all the task without a project would be a filter like task list pro: or task new limit:20 pro: if you prefer only the 20 newest tasks. Make yourself familiar with custom reports, ...

The "two Minute" rule is a guideline, there's some flexibility to it. Really what the rule is for is to encourage you to just do tasks that will take less time than the overhead to add them to your system. On the other hand, you want to be sure to not get sidetracked into "doing" when what you intended was "processing". Most of the time I use a loose "2 ...

I have moved away from Outlook 2013 and moved to Gmail (and google apps) It runs awesome in chrome. I have the tab pinned and use the keyboard shortcuts. They have canned responses. The mailsignature depending on the senders domain is still missing, but I think that there is no 100% solution for it at the moment. I am still impressed by the big improvement ...

For simpler tasks/thoughts, you could use a memory method. I learnt the Tea, Noah, Maypole system back 15-20 years ago, and whereas I now dump 99% of what I need to recall immediately in my GTD/Evernote system, it still comes in handy for times like you have mentioned. An example for those unfamiliar with such systems, if I was in the shower and had to ...

Came across this thread when searching for a solution myself. This reply won't help @jasedit in the shower or theater, but definitely in the car - and other places where it is cluncky to start typing on the phone. I do voice recording on my phone. But; it's too much fiddling with the built-in voice recorder, so it needs to be optimized for "GTD-like ...