Ae you hooked up with David Allen's GTD (Getting Things Done)?
Submitted by kimhaynes on Thu, 01/03/2008 - 4:46pm.
Have a reporter from the Austin American Statesman the following:
"Hi Kim - wondering if you might know any local folks who are into David Allen's GTD (Getting Things Done). Working on a story."
If you do, drop me a line at khaynes (at) bulldogsolutions (dot) com and I’ll connect you.
Thanks,
Kim
i'm down with the GTD. :)
email sent.
Another GTD user/fan over here too. E-mail sent. Hopefully, once everyone is using it, the world will be a better place. :)
OK, I'll bite - what is this GTD all about? I never heard of it.
Matt
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Matt
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GTD is "getting things done" and there is every conceivable website and webapp to help you with this. You can spend so much time researching gtd that you'll never get anything done.
Zen Habits has a massive gtd list and of course the instigator of all this gtd madness is Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, by David Allen
Allen makes no bones that his system isn't quick and easy, it's a complex system for a complex world that's slow and difficult. It's work!
You can see 11 quick and easy links on my http://del.icious/springnet/gtd page
David Allen suggests these basic "tools" for GTD.
* A five-tray desktop inbox
* A laptop with USB hub for iPod, camera, cell phone, labeler, digital recorder, external hard drive
* Palm Treo organizer and cell phone
* Lotus Notes software for all GTD stuff and email; Word, Excel, PowerPoint
* Two-drawer file cabinet
* Briefcase
* 5 plastic travel file folders
* Desktop organizer
Whoa! That's too much stuff. Too complicated. The laptop ok. A cell phone ok but not a Treo and a cellphone. Not Lotus Notes, but Google Desktop No file cabinet, just a Daytimer. No briefcase just a laptop backpack with room for papers, phones, etc. File folders, well I guess. No need for a desktop organizer.
I'm interested
I checked it out after seeing this thread when it was first started, and I've found it to be quite helpful. I especially like his 2-minute rule. If something is only going to take 2 minutes to do, then do it right away. It keeps tasks from accumulating, and it keeps you from having to remember each tiny task.
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Christopher Iamele
Email: ciamele at austin dot rr dot com
That's a great rule of thumb.
Looks like I'm going to have to check into this. I have a very bad habit of not getting anything done and being cranky about it later.
Valerie Dennis
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/vcd0826
Blog: http://thinking.ivalerie.com
When you check out GTD, consider using Google Notebook in conjunction with it... that's what I've been doing. Notebook is functioning as my collection box.
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Christopher Iamele
Email: ciamele at austin dot rr dot com
Sorry to be a newbie re: GTD, but what is a collection box?
The collection box is where you assemble all the tasks you need to accomplish (wash the car, vacuum the house, etc.). With Notebook, I assign tags to all these things. "Lunch" is one of my favorite tags since I assign that tag to things I can accomplish on my lunch hour.
For the record, I haven't read very far into the GTD book yet, so I'm not sure if I'm using my collection box correctly yet. However, it's helped me get more organized already. I've never been a disorganized person; instead I've been looking at GTD as an opportunity to continue to better myself.
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Christopher Iamele
Email: ciamele at austin dot rr dot com
I thought that's what "Post - It Notes" were for.
Honestly, I know a guy who's monitor would be covered with these little yellow post-it notes. He would go through a pad every couple of weeks.
I found the electronic version of the same thing call Hott Notes (www.hottnotes.com), and they work pretty well.
Yes, I use post-it notes as well. 3M actually had free software for a long time for softare post-it notes, but I don't think it's free any longer. Good thing I kept the installer around :)