I had many attempts to adopt GTD for the personal life and for my job/s. The main pain point is what there is absolutely no good tech tools to maintain the "ne

I had many attempts to adopt GTD for the personal life and for my job/s. The main pain point is what there is absolutely no good tech tools to maintain the "next actions" lists, especially for repeatable events. Eg: 'rotate the backup tapes' for every Tuesday - you can use a calendar for this, but what would happen if you don't rotate the tapes, for whatever reason? The event would happily go to the past day and would be no longer seen in the calendar widget. You wouldn't see what you missed 'the thing' with a calendar. 'To do' lists doesn't do that well either, you can add the 'rotate the tapes' task... and it would be there everyday, Fri-Wed, nagging you and eventually you just adblock it. What would happen on Tue? You would miss the task because you trained yourself to ignore it. And even if you do the rotation for some reason (probably because this is the first two or three weeks of your GTD adoption attempt) what you do with the task itself? One of the benefits of GTD is what you can actually see in the backlog when you actually did the deed. With 'todo' lists (at least for 99% of implementations) you can't do that - if you mark it done it would just vanish in the thin aether. Leave it be? Back to the square one, it's there when you don't need it. My first exposure to GTD had the most efficient and extremely 20th century method to solve it: have a physical organizer, write things for today, at the evening (or at the morning, but it's mandatory) sit down and write the things what wasn't done to the next day; write 'rotate the tapes' to the next Tue. To some people this works, not for me. And some offtopic rant: a) those cutesy, "hand-written" annotations style for diagrams makes me feel like a dyslexic, while I'm not; don't use this style for anything you want the reader to actually read b) don't use the completely out of this universe examples, like 'e-mail funny cat video to grandma' or 'let's make a car class for OOP'; use the real life examples most of people can relate, eg: 'pay rent for the flat' every 25th