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GTD & iPad
A Community Contribution from Brian Isikoff, sharing how he manages GTD lists on his new iPad I’m a four+ year adoptee of GTD, an IT Procurement professional since 1992, podcast producer, writer, and all around nice guy. Lastly, I’m the owner of a sparkly new iPad. That iPad has quickly become the center of my …
Free GTD & Lotus Notes Webinar with David Allen
If you are a GTD implementer, and you use Lotus Notes, there’s a great opportunity later this month to see David’s personal system in action. The developers of eProductivity, the application David personally uses to manage his workflow in Lotus Notes, are hosting a Webinar with David on April 28th. Here are the details: What: …
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Book Signing with David Allen in Minneapolis
If you are in the Minneapolis area next Wednesday, David will be doing a book signing that is free and open to the public. Here are the particulars: When: Wednesday, April 21st from 11:30am – 1pm CDT. Where: Barnes and Noble Downtown Midwest Plaza, 801 Nicollet Mall Minneapolis, MN 55402 612-371-4443
GTD Best Practices of Doing
We just posted the 5th podcast in our best practices series that we are making available to the public (which are normally exclusive to GTD Connect.) Listen or download now. You’ll hear insights, tips and tricks from David Allen and two of the senior coaches on this key phase of GTD. It’s about 30 minutes …
GTD & personality types
From all my GTD” more than any other. Of course, the real question inside that: What is GTD? If you think it’s about organizing lists, then of course the left-brainers may fall in step. If you say, on the other hand, it’s really about the most effective way to produce and maintain clear psychic space, …
GTD Times rank well in management & leadership blogs
We were thrilled to see that GTD Times ranked #7 among quite a prestigious list of the top management and leadership blogs. We just passed our 2-year anniversary with GTD Times. Thanks to all who have contributed over the years. If you’d like to contribute a personal story about your journey with GTD, we’d love …
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How I break out of a rut
Community Contribution from Mike Vardy I’m about to state the obvious. We’re all human. Ergo, we make mistakes. Like creating words like “ergo.” Beyond “The Royal We,” we’re individuals. I’m sure you didn’t create the word “ergo” but I am pretty certain you’ve made other mistakes. I know I’ve made my share. For example, starting …
Are you living in your zone or stumbling into your zone?
[HTML1] (The tool David mentions at the end is eProductivity for Lotus Notes. It’s what he uses personally to manage his projects and actions. If you’re a Notes user, you can learn more about David’s setup in the free Webinar on April 28th.)
A journey of reading Getting Things Done
A few months ago, a new GTD implementer named Michael started sending me his experiences of reading Getting Things Done. He read a chapter a week and would recap what he learned. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed reading these, as it’s been fun to see GTD through a newcomer’s eyes. He just finished the book and sent …
Why do people let themselves get overwhelmed?
Q: What are the main reasons why people let themselves get overwhelmed at work? David Allen: People tend to both over-commit and to be inefficient. Few people know exactly how much work they actually have, and therefore must take everything on that they think about and that others ask them to do. Their integrity forces …
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In your head or on your lists?
Q: I feel like I’ll spend all my time maintaining these lists. David Allen: If by “maintaining” the lists you mean, “write action reminders down in a retrievable place that you’ll look at when you need to.” then it’s not going to take you nearly as much time, effort, and stress as filing it in …
GTD & Lotus Notes Webinar for IBMers
Community Contribution from Eric Mack, partner of the David Allen Company As many of you know, David Allen has used Lotus Notes for his personal GTD system for many years. As such, David and I will be co-hosting two upcoming webinars on GTD & Lotus Notes. Exclusively for IBM employees: On April 8th from 10am …
Organizing actions related to projects
Question: How did you organize your tasks? Am I suppose to have a main Projects category and corresponding action tasks categorized @home, @work, etc? David Allen: Yes, for me “Projects” is a category, just like the action lists of “Calls”, “At Computer” etc. They are simply flat lists, tied together with your review of the …
You'll automatically feel better when…
“You’ll automatically feel better about what you’re doing if the inventory of defined next actions available to you is as complete as possible.” -David Allen (p.211 of Making It All Work)
GTD Webinars
Here are the upcoming Webinars on GTD Connect, our online learning center: Project Planning, with Coaches Wayne Pepper & Kelly Forrister – April 8, 11am PDT. The Coaches will go over common questions, like: How do you plan out a project? Where do project plans go? How far out should you plan a project when …
GTD Twitter class
Thanks to all who participated in the Guided GTD “Tweekly Review” I did this morning. If you want a refresher, or missed it and want to follow along yourself, here’s the path. Some of the other great resources for the GTD Weekly Review: The Book. It’s all in there. Really! GTD System Guides (which has …
Making It All Work at the Beach
Hey, not a bad place to read a book! Thanks to Susan from Rhode Island for sharing this from her recent vacation in the Caribbean.
Options for GTD implementers & iPhone Tasks
One of the most common tools we get asked about is the iPhone–specifically, our recommendations for syncing Tasks to an iPhone. Here’s some helpful information around that: What does the David Allen Company recommend for implementing GTD® Task lists on the iPhone? The iPhone was not built with a Tasks application, so you will need …
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Controlling your work instead of being controlled by it
Dear David and Co., About three years ago, on a long plane ride, I was able to fully deploy GTD into a paper-based system. I had read the book. And the book suggested writing down all active Projects, Tasks, and Waiting Fors. After writing down all my projects, I looked at the list. It was …
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