David Allen & his team sat down to record a podcast on the best practices of Collect.
In this 35 minute podcast they talk about:
- Some of their favorite tools for capturing anywhere, anytime
- The essential tools for work and home spaces
- What makes or breaks a good collection tool?
- The essential “red folder“
- Collect versus organize and why most people don’t get the difference
- Why an empty inbox reduces interruptions
- What’s it like to work in a GTD culture?
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I absolutely love the podcasts! Keep up the good work. I’ve been using GTD for about a year now and my favorite method of capture is index cards. I find them extremely useful for capturing one idea at a time – whether the idea is a next action, project, or reference. I did not hear anything about using index cards by the podcasters in today’s podcast. In light of the hPDA movement within GTD and the availability of index cards on college campuses (where I work), I’d like to hear your thoughts about what you’ve observed, the pros and cons, of such a system.
I am just a beginner to GTD and these podcasts are absolutely fantastic guide for my GTD endeavors !
It may also help to have some podcasts, to explain about GTD and how to start for newbies like me.
Thanks!
I like your index card system because it’s very physical and compact.
And when I’ve used index cards, there’s something relieving about tearing them by hand when you discover they belong best in Trash!
Hi Sam,
I have a stack of index cards in my center desk drawer for collection as well. I’ve never used index cards for my lists, but have coached people who have.
Kelly (one of the speakers on the podcast)
Hi Anirudh,
We plan to do many more podcasts. I just finished one with David on “Getting Started with GTD” and he gives some tips on that. Two big things he recommends:
The GTD Book
The Getting Started Series on GTDConnect.com
Kelly
I would appreciate links in the show notes to the tools you reference. I subscribe using iTunes and listen while driving. Thanks for the wonderful information.
Hi Kelly,
I’m a loyal listener and have two comments:
– great podcast, especially on the part at work that is less often discussed.
– point of improvement: sound capture is quite disappointing in this podcast: echo, loudness, uneven level between speakers. Really tough to follow while driving. OK, I’m french, but this is no excuse 😀
Thanks and keep up with the podcasts!
Renaud
Interesting Podcast on collect & best practice. However my GTD works best when I use a hardback book with lined paper to record everything (meetings, messages, phone calls – everything). I then transfer actions from the book to OmniFocus to trigger my doing the action, but the book records for me the context of my agreeing the action as well as phone numbers and so forth. I run a separate In Tray for post and prints of emails etc.
This does mean that I am working with my book almost constantly, and checking I have marked actions off as “captured” elsewhere.
Just one comment really, I don’t think the iTunes subscription includes all the podcasts, including this one. Great podcast though, really useful.
Hi Robin,
How did you subscribe? Through this? http://www.davidco.com/podcast.php
FYI–There are two iTunes feeds: one that includes all of the free podcasts found here: http://www.davidco.com/podcast.php
and another that include all of the free ones, plus everything included for GTD Connect members (many, many more show up in the Connect feed that are only accessible to members with a login.)
Thanks,
GTD Times Team