Ah. That makes sense, although I think it makes more sense for me when applied to physical stuff (like mail or email).
Thanks for the reply! -David On Jan 3, 7:43 pm, "Marcelo Andrade" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 6:47 PM, misterlawrence <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Can somebody explain the purpose and use of references? Perhaps a real > > world example? Thanks! > > If you don't have read the book, it's highly > recommended. > > I'm far from being a GTD-expert, but I'll try > to share my impressions. > > In the collect phase, you must ask yourself > "What is this? This is actionable?" for each > item of your inbox stuff. After process the > (non-actionable) items, they'll be classified > in one of the following: > > a) Trash. Items non-actionable that you don't > really need anymore; > > b) A thought or an idea for the future. A > thing that you will not do in the present, but > would like to reconsidering in the future; > > c) A Reference. An item that you don't wanna > trash because is important to support your > activities in some manner but is not related > directly with none of your projects. > > Months ago I've tried to start an implementation > of GTD and I made a big collect of all of my > stuff. My annotations, books, some friend's > business cards, and so on were items that I've > retained for reference. > > Best regards. > > -- > MARCELO DE F. ANDRADE (aka "eleKtron") > Belem, PA, Amazonia, Brazil > Linux User #221105 > > [...@pará ~]# linkshttp://pa.slackwarebrasil.org/ > > For Libby's backstory be told on > Losthttp://www.petitiononline.com/libby423/petition.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GTD TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/GTD-TiddlyWiki?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
