A Community Contribution by Venkatesh Rao If you are into GTD, your desk/main workspace is probably a constant source of intellectual stimulation for you. Do you think your workspace manifests and models the future of work? If so, take a quick picture and tweet it to @cloudworker on twitter (run by the folks at cloudworker.org). …
A True Life Saga of GTD in Action Meets a Review of MIAW
Venkatesh Rao is a quintessential GTD’er. Seven years in the trenches and he’s probably forgotten more about GTD than most people every learn. He’s also one of those individuals gifted with the intellect and the energy to manage a level of productivity that few people even aspire to, let alone achieve. In a mammoth post …
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Want to Meet David Allen? Here's His Press Tour and Book Signing Schedule
If reading his book is not enough and you’d like to meet David in person and even get your copy of one of his books personally autographed, your opportunity is at hand. David’s press tour for his new book starts tomorrow, January 6th in Pasadena, California. Here’s the current schedule of dates, times and locations …
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Another Great Review for David's New Book, "Making it All Work"
TheSimpleDollar is a website devoted to straightforward talk about personal finance. The author, Trent Hamm, is clearly a David Allen fan (he considers David’s first book, “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity” to be one of the ten books that changed his life) and he states up front that he is very excited …
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Making it All Work – David's New Book – On Sale Everywhere Now!
You’ve heard about it, you’ve read preliminary reviews for it, and now, finally, after months of waiting, you can own it yourself:David Allen’s new book, “Making it All Work; Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life”, has gone on sale at book stores everywhere. You can get your copy by clicking …
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They Love GTD in the UK, Too. Mark Walsh Explains.
Mark Walsh writes the Integration Journal, and authored a great post on GTD last week. This post might be especially interesting for you if you know that you need to change something to get a handle on your commitments, but aren’t certain if GTD is the solution for you. To learn more about GTD services and offerings in …
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GTD @ 40,000 Feet: How to Craft Your Life Vision, that Gives You Inspiration Every Morning
A Community Contribution by Arif and Ali Vakil Photo: I recently heard Steve Pavlina’s podcast “What is your Purpose”, in which he presented an excellent framework for arriving at your specific purpose. This ties in very well with GTD’s 40,000 ft horizon of focus and also a continuation of my previous post “GTD @ 50,000: …
How Santa Gets Things Done in Time for Christmas
Have you ever wondered how Santa maintains perspective and control over everything that has his attention? I mean, with all of the letters, a toy shop to supervise, flight plans and air travel restrictions to deal with … and the weather! It’s enough to drive any normal person crazy. I always thought Santa must have …
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6 Months Later: Am I really still doing GTD?
Community Contribution by Erik Hanberg I lurched into a Getting Things Done system over a couple fits and starts. First it started with two friends who had read the book and were talking it up. I was uninterested in what I thought was a “self-help” book. But that soon changed when I discovered an Atlantic …
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Recalibrating Your GTD Systems
Editor’s Note: It is my pleasure to introduce a new GTDtimes Contributor, Venkatesh Rao. Venkat works at the Xerox Innovation Group, where he leads technology projects that aim to invent the future of documents and information work. Prior to Xerox, he spent 2.5 years as a postdoc at Cornell, in Raff D’Andrea’s robotics research group. …
Curious About David's New Book? bNet has an Excerpt for You
For folks that are curious about David Allen’s new book,Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life, I’ve got a treat for you. bNet has just put up a full chapter excerpt that you can check out right now.
Costco Meets David Allen: Nearly Six Million Small Business Owners Discover GTD
It’s not just the little guys that appreciate all that David Allen and GTD has to offer. Some of the biggest corporations on the planet have implemented GTD to improve workplace productivity and personal life/work satisfaction of their work forces. One such company, Costco, has a publication that they send to almost six million small …
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Being Neighborly, Thanks to The Two Minute Rule
A Community Contribution by Eric Hanberg When I started implementing GTD this summer, I thought the main benefit was going to be felt in my work life first and foremost, as GTD would help me juggle my pieced-together living as a freelance writer and web developer. GTD has certainly helped me professionally, but it has …
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David Allen and Eric Mack to Appear at Lotusphere
Both David and longtime friend to the David Allen Company and developer of eProductivity for Lotus Notes, Eric Mack will be presenting at Lotusphere. Their session, called IBM Lotus Notes and Me: Maximizing Personal Productivity with Lotus Notes is on Monday, January 9th at 5PM with a booksigning at 6:30PM. If you’re attending Lotusphere you …
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Want to See David Allen Live for Free? Here's Your Chance!
On December 13th the David Allen Company is presenting a special FREE event, Q&A, and book signing with David Allen at UCLA. You’re invited! Registration begins at 9AM and the event runs from 9:30 to 12:30. Here is your chance to get a preview of David’s new “Making It All Work” seminar, the next generation …
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Getting Things Done On the Go with Lotus Notes – Will Traveler Make it Easy?
Will Traveler make getting things done with Notes easy? I have a long-standing interest in devices and applications that increase mobile knowledge worker productivity, particularly those that support the GTD methodology and can sync with Lotus Notes. The problem is that most of the devices that I have used to date fail in one or …
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A way to manage project steps
Community Contribution from Yolanda Otero, an HR Compliance Coordinator from AmerisourceBergen in Orlando Florida I been doing the GTD for the last 6 months and this has changed my day completely in a way that I’m more proactive, organized, and I have full control of work time due to the way that I manage my …
Music for Getting Things Done
By Scott Allen – Community Contributor Left to my own devices, I have a terrible time maintaining focus when I need to write, do web design, work on spreadsheets or databases, or do intensive analytical reading. While I refuse to go to the doctor to get a formal diagnosis, I pretty much know that I …
Review of Things by Cultured Code
A Community Contribution by Erik Hanberg. Please note, this is Erik’s personal opinion. Things is not affiliated with or endorsed by David Allen Company. But we’re happy to pass along an objective review from a community member! Too Much to Do In April of this year, I left my full time job to “go freelance.” …
GTD paper systems
For those of you that love the tried and true tools of pen and paper, the David Allen Company has just launched a couple of new products that you’re sure to love. Two sizes of personal coordinators; jr. size and letter size as well as a letter size calendar. Made by Mead, the same folks …
