Presonal Productivity - To Do lists

Yesterday I described how I use a Trello board to document my personal productivity system.  This post explains how I use Trello to implement my "Getting Things Done" inspired personal productivity system via three "To Do" boards.  Here is an image of my "To Do @ Work" board:

So here is how it works:

1.  Set up the day by scanning the "Next Actions" list and dragging and dropping cards to get the appropriate prioritization.
2.  Scan the "Waiting For . . . " list to see if any of the items you are waiting for are ready.  If yes, drag them to the appropriate place in "Next Actions."
3.  For each card in the "Projects" list determine the next action that you must take (note - this is NOT where you list tasks or actions assigned to other people - that is you project task list or action item list).  Add that next action to the "Next Actions" list.  The simple rule is - have at least one action for each project in either "To DO . . ." or "Waiting For . . . "
4.  Go to work - work from the top of "Next Actions" and IGNORE EVERYTHING ELSE!
5.  If you run out of Next Actions (it could happen) re-review "Waiting For . . . ", "Projects," and then fall back to "Someday" until you find a valid task.  If you ever come up empty - go do something fun!

Personal Productivity - The continuing Experiment

It's been almost three weeks since I started my experiment in improving my personal productivity.  Here is the original post:  Experiment - My Personal Productivity System.

Using principles I learned form "Getting Things Done," I planned to create a simple process that allows me to park my "To Do" items and stop stressing about them.

A key technology has been Trello.com (see my post on this tool: Trello.com).  Trello is an automated board containing lists with each list containing cards.  I use four Trello boards to implement my productivity system.  The process board is where I go first.  I contains discriptions of my process along with appropriate links:

Just read work through the lists from left to right, and work the cards from top to bottom.  It seems to help me a lot to have these decision made before I start my work day.

The remaining three boards are my actual prioritized "to do" lists.  One each for Work, Home and AboutProjectManagement.com.

Tomorrow we can walk through one of these to show you exactly what I'm doing - and I'll describe the reults to date (Hint - Very Good!)