
Priorities: GTD has four of these: Now, Next, Later, and Someday. That’s fine enough categorisation for this ADHD person. So I have essentially two projects: Writing-Related and Not Writing-Related. If I have more than two projects going at once, I’m in trouble anyway.
Projects: Classifying things to do by the project of which they’re a part. Contexts: Classifying things to do by the location in which I do them. Because I’m a writer? A wife? A housemate? Because I damn well please? It doesn’t matter. The details of why I have to do a thing are things that are too nitpicky to record. Roles: Classifying things to do by the “role I play” while doing them.
The ones I either don’t use or simplify greatly are related to categorisation and prioritisation, which ADHD folks are notoriously bad at (I am no exception):
My calendar after GTD processing GTD principles I ignore or simplify:įrom my point of view many of GTD’s classifications are complications that I avoid or simplify lest I stop using the system. A heavily modified version of Getting Things Done is still my go-to system, and I still have it tied to Habitica, the gamified to-do system I’ve been using for several years.