08/17/2010 – We now have a GTD & BlackBerry Setup Guide. Visit the David Allen Company store to get your copy. It’s loaded with tips, tricks and expert coaching advice of applying GTD to your BlackBerry. Wayne Pepper, one of the senior staff at David Allen Company, uses a BlackBerry device in his implementation of …
Monthly Archives: May 2009
The GTD Weekly Review
The GTD Tweekly Review today was great fun for me and seemed like it worked well for those who followed. I will do another one. Don’t know when yet, but will be sure to post on GTD Times, GTD Connect and Twitter when I come up with a date and time. And, please don’t wait …
3 ways to Join the Tweekly Review!
Follow the Twitterfountain: http://www.gtdtimes.com/gtd-tweekly-review-twitter-fountain/ Follow GTDCoachKelly: http://twitter.com/GTDCoachKelly Search on the hashtag: #Tweekly I’ll Tweet the 11 steps of the GTD Weekly Review, one every 5 minutes. – Kelly
Free David Allen Webinar on GTD & PersonalBrain
David is doing a free webinar next week on GTD & PersonalBrain. If you are not familiar with this creative tool, it’s great for making connections and linking knowledge. “Simply type in your ideas. Drag and drop files and web pages. Any idea can be linked to anything else. Using your digital Brain is like …
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Prep for the Worldwide GTD "Tweekly" Review
The response to my blog post on the first Worldwide GTD “Tweekly” Review on Twitter has been amazing! I’ll be leading whoever wants to join through the 11 steps of the GTD Weekly Review. Some of you have asked me to change the time. We’re going to keep it at the scheduled 10am California Pacific …
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GTD & OmniFocus
By far, one of the most popular implementations of GTD on a Mac, is with OmniFocus. It does an elegant job of GTD project and action management on the Mac and iPhone. There’s a great write up from the “Mac Samurai”about his journey with GTD & OmniFocus. We thought you might find this useful. (Yes, …
Zen and the Art of Task-Management
A GTD Times community contribution by Paul Lavender The idea for writing this article came from the talk by Thay on the History of Engaged Buddhism in Mindfulness Bell No. 49. Specifically, when Thay talks about the future and mentions there will be courses held for businesspeople. I would like to share a practice that …
How do you know if your projects list is complete?
GTD Secrets: True Confessions of a GTD Coach – Episode 3 Have you ever been stumped by the difference between a Project and an Area of Focus? In this great 5 minute podcast, David Allen Company senior coach Meg Edwards talks about the GTD best practices for creating a Projects list. She gives tips on: …
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Learn GTD in Denver
Rachelle, director of public events for the David Allen Company, asked us to pass this along to the GTD Times readers: The GTD: Mastering Workflow seminar is coming to Denver, Colorado on Thursday, May 28th. As a special offer for GTD Times readers, take 10% off the registration fee with the code Rocky10. Whether you …
Be Creative Amid Chaos
David Allen is now a regular columnist for the newly-launched UK version of Wired magazine. Check out his current column. In his regular column on GTD Connect, David shared about how this came to be: “The associate editor, Ben Hammersley, became a big GTD fan when he wrote about it for The Guardian; and he …
Why is David Allen like Einstein?
A GTD Times community contribution by Arif and Ali Vakil What made Einstein an Einstein or Newton a Newton? It was their amazing capability to look at what everybody was looking at, but see something different. The world sees an apple falling from a tree, but Newton notices there’s something greater at work here–it’s gravity. …
BumpTop
Anyone using BumpTop for your GTD workflow? Perhaps it’s a way to do on-the-fly mindsweep captures? Assist with the collection phase? Wrangle your open loops? If any GTD’ers out there are using it, we’d love to hear how you’ve made it a part of your GTD system.
Managing GTD systems on two machines
Any GTD implementers out there have this same challenge and setup and want to tackle this one? Patrick is looking for some advice on managing GTD systems across two systems. I wonder if there is any conventional wisdom/tools/tips/tricks for implementing GTD (I am using the Outlook plugin) when I have to navigate TWO Exchange profiles …
Tips for setting up GTD lists
GTD Secrets: True Confessions of a GTD Coach – Episode 2 In this great 5 minute podcast, David Allen Company coach Meg Edwards shares her journey with setting up her GTD lists. If you’ve ever wondered if you have this “list thing” down, listen to Meg’s coaching on: – Do you need to setup the …
The power of asking, "What's the next action?"
We always love hearing how people are applying GTD in their lives. This heartfelt story came in to David from Peggy in Massachusetts, who shared her experience asking the simple GTD question: “What’s the next action?” Asking myself “What’s the next action?” recently resulted in a wonderfully positive experience in my life. In 1970, I …
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GTD: Good for Coders and Writers?
My income mostly comes from two areas: writing and web development. Doing both, I’ve discovered certain similarities of work between writing and coding. Each has certain activities that can take a really long time. And in both, it’s often important to attack those activities in large chunks of time. I’ve come back to a writing …
What is GTD?
GTD Secrets: True Confessions of a GTD Coach – Episode 1 We are thrilled to have Meg Edwards, one of the masters of GTD at the David Allen Company, providing her perspective, humor and wisdom on the world of GTD. She will be doing a new series for GTD Times called “GTD Secrets: True Confessions …