[seebs]

I haven't actually successfully used GTD yet (all of the GTD apps I've found have been a little too rigid for me -- although I love Midnight Inbox's feature of autocollecting Desktop files into Inbox, which makes excellent sense), but I agree that in general, treating to-do items as hard landscape items is bad.

I have to do an estimate on a coding project this week. If I put it in my "hard calendar", on any given occasion, it may clash with ACTUAL hard calendar events -- for instance, I might fail to notice them because they're buried under twenty or thirty other items, and then not do them at all.

I think part of this is that I can be much better at the calendar if it's legitimate -- if items only show up in it because they really do have an objective and external timeline. Then I am less stressy and will do better at my todo items that can be done Whenever.