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Then open one folder on Monday morning (or the Friday before) for all the things that need to be dealt with that week. Even that, though, must be emptied regularly (put it on your Monday calendar as a repeating event\/reminder) or you want trust it. If you can&#8217;t make the habit stick, give it up and\/or give the job to an assistant, and hand things to them, with a post-it &#8220;give this back of me on May 2&#8221; etc.<\/p>\n<p>Grab the <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.davidco.com\/store\/catalog\/SETTING-UP-A-TICKLER-FILE-p-16163.php\" target=\"_blank\">free article in our store about setting one up<\/a>. There&#8217;s also a <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.davidco.com\/store\/catalog\/GTD-TICKLER-FILE-FOLDERS-p-16575.php\" target=\"_blank\">great little animation<\/a> showing a Tickler File in action, contributed by Sarah George.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The business type paperwork myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,32],"tags":[745,61,69,46,100,108,109,114,391],"class_list":["post-3742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-david-allen","category-productivity-tips","tag-david-allen","tag-trusted-system","tag-implementing-gtd","tag-implementation","tag-tips-and-tricks","tag-coaching","tag-gtd-best-practices","tag-next-actions","tag-tickler-file","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.8 (Yoast SEO v26.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tickler Lite?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"he Tickler File is one of the &quot;incubation&quot; systems David recommends in Getting Things Done (p. 173). 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