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On your to-do list, write the next action your hands can do 📞

A chubby boucle wool penguin happily holding the handset of a real red vintage telephone
Cloudy Tasks

If you write "fix the car" on your list, it is hard to start.

Hand Actions

"Call the mechanic" is something your hands can do now. "Do research" gets easy as "print a summary of up to 5 pages."

⚡ TRY IT
The action machine
Tap a cloudy task. The machine turns it into something your flippers can do.
🐧 Flipper-ready: 0/4
Cloudy tasks float. It is hard to grab them.
See? Now you know exactly what to do first.
🎉 All 4 are things your flippers can do right now!
David Allen Too

David Allen of "GTD" says a good to-do is "the next action your hands and feet can do."

Next Time

Next time, I will write things my hands can do.

📚 I learned this from Oliver Burkeman's newsletter. Read the original (English)
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