RR Anderson, DIY Cultural Arts Specialist
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Sep. 6, 2009 at 9:11pm
Getting Things Done Contextual To Do Lists (holistically expanded)
with CLOUD COMPUTED google Spreadsheets
It has been an age since reading Mr. Erik Emery Hanberg's Practical Guide to Getting Things Done (GTD) and I am happy to report these four (4) WORKING TO-DO LIST EXAMPLES of how you can apply Mr. Hanberg's GTD teachings to google spreadsheets for ubiquitous, eternal satisfaction.come fire walk with me...
RR's MASTER CONTROL CONTEXTUAL TO-DO LIST
notice my to-do list categories have been adapted from Hanberg's design. My context classification categories are:
- Home
- Online
- Writing+Drawing Tasks
- Read/Review
- People to Phone
- People to Email
- Errand Quests
- Waiting for..
WISH LIST
A serious artist makes every project an art project. Your life should be one long running performance art piece.
INVENTIONS + WORKSHOP TASKS
Google spreadsheets overrides firefox's built-in spell checker and is a source of infinite torment.
FAIR-GAME INVENTORY
The need for this list presented itself to me after cleaning out my grandpa's workshop post mortem. Should help me keep track of things thrown up into the rafters, pushed far back in closets. Perhaps in column C should be "Where is it?"
Inventors: go green! Reduce Reuse, Recycle!
 by NineInchNachos on 9/6/2009 @ 9:18pm | in the future it would be nice to link up a page in this spreadsheet with google notebook
www.google.com/notebook/ (hey try out the firefox/notebook plugin too...) |
 by Thorax O'Tool on 9/6/2009 @ 9:47pm | What's with the "Enemies List" entry @ B6 on the first spread sheet? |
 by Erik Hanberg on 9/6/2009 @ 10:54pm | Awesome!! A good looking GTD spreadsheet. |
by NineInchNachos on 9/6/2009 @ 11:30pm | B6 is a reminder to write a list of all my enemies.
everyone should write an enemies list. Just keep it secret unless you're looking for trouble. |
 by Mofo from the Hood on 9/7/2009 @ 12:23am | Oh man, with this post you're just beggin' somebody to steal your identity.
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by Erik Hanberg on 9/7/2009 @ 9:17am | NIN,
As I said last night--good looking spreadsheet! My only GTD concern is that some of your items look more like projects than action items--in the sense that they possibly have multiple steps. So if you don't have paint to paint the studio, then "buy paint" should be an errand, and then later "paint garage" would be on there. Similarly, "Enrich relationship with urban context" seems like a another project, where you might have "Walk the length of Broadway with my camera" or "Spend 1 hour messing around outside" as action items. The idea is to do the thinking ahead of time, or at least get it on to paper. So that when you have time to start doing. You can just immediately pick up and go at it. Still! Super awesome! I hope it's working well for you. |
by NineInchNachos on 9/7/2009 @ 9:40am | Thanks Erik, You're right. I will add your helpful instruction to my to-do list and schedule an appropriate time to make the adjustments. |
 by morgan on 9/7/2009 @ 1:30pm | Erik: I just teaser in the TNT about your interview as the new (first?!) director for City Club Tacoma. Congrats! |
by Thorax O'Tool on 9/7/2009 @ 10:03pm | Spreadsheets are for those too tiresome and weak to memorize all the tedious details and detailedly tedious memories of tediously tedious detailed plans. |
by NineInchNachos on 9/7/2009 @ 10:56pm | I outsource my memory to the cloud and so should you. |
by Thorax O'Tool on 9/7/2009 @ 11:03pm | My memory runs in the petabytes, man. No need to outsource, I'm keeping brain cells employed right here in Thorax-town.... supporting the local cellular economy. |
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