[NickHibma]

Originally Posted by RobTrew

Where did I recently read of a Pentagon general describing her approach to getting things done ? Essentially:

1. List everything that you need to do,
2. discard it all except for the 3 key items.

Fairly extreme, and perhaps middle ground is typically more fertile in civilian life, but it could be argued that OF is really best used as a circular file.

A more subtle approach is to drop everything into OF, but at the start of a day, week or other time period, write down a few items on a sheet of paper and work from that, ignore OF completely. Anything left over at the end of the day goes back into OF.

On the piece of paper I have headings 'Do', 'Waiting for', 'Best effort', and 'Doodle'. The fact that it is handwriting makes it terse, and easy to remember.