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Figure 1: a flowchart depicting the GTD process for organizing and processing incoming stuff into

action categories (elaborated from (Allen, 2001, p. 32)). Rectangles represent actions, diamonds

represent decision points, stacks represent external memories (lists, folders, files, ) in which

reminders are stored. Continuous arrows represent the immediate sequence of processing; broken

arrows represent delayed processing, during a review of an external memory; dotted lines represent

follow-up processes left implicit in GTD, but whose importance will become clear in the explanation of

Fig. 2. The process starts by taking one item out of the In-basket (top-left), and then follows the arrows

depending on the answers to the questions. It ends when the item is classified in an external memory or

the corresponding action is performed. The most important actions are likely to end up on the bottom-

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