My copy of the book arrived yesterday. I spent five minutes flipping through it, trying to find “little tricks” I could use immediately. The overall system is nice, it fits nicely into a flowchart that Allen includes in the book. A lot of material is in support of the basic algorithm, which is very straight forward.

The little trick I found was project work. Projects are stuff that might take multiple actions to accomplish. Projects are too big to think about. Rather we should be thinking about next actions to bring us closer to finishing projects.