Re: [O] [OT][GTD] GTDish next action "todo" keyword, could that influence your productivity in any way?

[Bastien]

Hi Marcelo,

Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <address@hidden> writes:

> What do you think; and what word do you use as your TODO keyword?

I use 

NEXT(/) TODO(t) STRT(s) WAIT(w@) | DONE(d) DELEGATED(D@) CANCELED(c@)

The difference between NEXT and TODO is because I want to always keep
less than 10 NEXT items on a project, but I still want to distinguish
between TODOs and those entries without a TODO keyword.  If I had only
TODO, there would be often too many entries without a TODO keyword.

I use STRT mostly in combination with a Read/Write/Watch tag, to spot
things I started to Read/Write/Watch.

I check WAIT once in a while for pending tasks.

The rest is quite common I guess.

I tried to avoid keywords proliferation and I stabilized this setup 
over the years.  My main issue was about this NEXT/TODO distinction, 
but I found out it's more a matter of discipline than of semantics...

HTH,

-- 
 Bastien