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 …
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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.” …
Part II: Action Support Folders and Tickler Lists
Editor’s Note: This is the second part of a two part series on Action Support Folders and Tickler Lists. The first part can be found here. In the prior post I wrote a little about a recent coaching call I had with DAC Certified Coach, Julie Ireland and shared how she recommended that I set …
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Action Support Folders and Tickler Lists: 2 GTD Tools We Hardly Ever Discuss
I had a coaching session today with Julie Ireland, a DavidCo Certified Coach and felt like what she said made so much sense that it merited sharing with the community. Since I’ve hardly ever seen discussion about Action Support Folders or Tickler Lists and since I felt like my approach towards both needed some tweaking …
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GTD with Outlook and OneNote
Looking for support implementing GTD with Outlook? Check out our GTD and OneNote for Windows Setup Guide from the David Allen Company coaches.
GTD balancing act in three steps: The weekly review with kids
“Work and play are words used for the same thing under differing conditions” —Mark Twain All good things come in three’s—just like the steps of the weekly review: Get Clear Get Current Get Creative Getting work done First get clear. Collect everything in one place—the loose bits of paper, assignments, toys, (school) books and randomly …
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GTD Times Mentioned by James Fallows in the Atlantic
Friend of David Allen and the David Allen Company, James Fallows was kind enough to give GTDtimes a very favorable mention in the Atlantic, one of the most lauded and influential publications in the country. James, that’s high praise and a very generous compliment especially coming from a nationally recognized journalist like yourself.
IBM Offers Lotus Notes For Apple's IPhone
Editor’s Note: This just in from DOW Jones… IBM Offers Lotus Notes For Apple’s iPhone Sep 30, 2008 00:01:00 (ET) SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)–International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) said Tuesday it was making its Lotus Notes tools, including email and calendar applications, available for Apple Inc.’s (AAPL) iPhone. Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM said that the latest …
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David Allen seminars in Europe
If you’re a GTD’er (or want to become one) and you happen to live overseas, your opportunity to learn from the master has just come much closer to home. Nathaniel Stott, a contributor to GTDtimes has reported that he and his associates at Life Architect have been working on the details for months and now, …
Hot Off the Press: David Allen Launches New GTD Channel on YouTube
I’ve got some big news for GTD enthusiasts and followers of David Allen’s Getting Things Done systematic approach to personal productivity. David in conjunction with the David Allen Company have just launched a new YouTube Channel dedicated to Getting Things Done. This new YouTube Channel is a compilation of those videos that David or his …
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Is There a GTD Meetup Near You?
Greg Stevenson, an avid GTD’er recently wrote DavidCo to let them know about a new Meetup Group he’s started in Orange County, CA. In the process of getting the word out about his meetup, Greg discovered Meetup.com and found out that there were actually 25 different GTD meetups taking place all over the country. I …
Office 2.0 Day One: David Allen Steals the Show
Bloggers from around the net were in attendance and they were quick to post on David’s rather surprising dual appearances (actually the first appearance had been announced on the Office2.o website months ago) but David’s second appearance, sitting on the GTD Applications Panel was a delightful surprise made all the much more exciting for what …
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Falling Off the Wagon and Back to School
The fun of falling off the wagon and rollling in the grass. Summer holiday reflections as we get back to school with the kids.
GTD – Changing the World by Bringing Change from Within
A Community Contribution from Arif and Ali Vakil Have you ever found yourself in the situation where you’re completely overwhelmed with all the work that surrounds you? At those times do you then you catch yourself complaining about the outside world “I wish my job wasn’t so demanding”, “I wish there wasn’t so much competition”, …
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What's Your Desired Outcome?
A Contribution from Maurice Gavin, a former staff presenter and coach with David Allen Company At ‘that’ moment, you understand the power of getting it out of your head. Some might think that means merely writing it down, but it actually requires one to implement Peter Drucker’s thinking from the Effective Executive treatise (1969) that …
What If…? and Why Not…?
A Contribution by former presenter and coach with the David Allen Company, Maurice Gavin “What if you really could achieve the dreams you conceive for yourself and your corner of this world?” “What if you could overcome any obstacle set before you in your life and in the lives of others at will and on …
Determining Priority GTD Style
By Michael Gorsline OmniFocus is a GTD inspired productivity application for Mac. When I visit the OmniFocus discussion boards, at fairly regular intervals someone will ask, “But why can’t you Omni guys incorporate a way to assign priority to action items?” and an argument promptly ensues. GTD folks try to explain why that just doesn’t …
GTD Global Summit Site Posts Agenda for Event, More Details…
If you’re one of the people that wouldn’t miss the GTD Global Summit for anything than you probably aren’t too concerned with hearing about the recent updates to the GTD Global Summit website. However, if this is something that you haven’t yet reached a conclusion on one way or another you might want to click …
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David Allen Appears in Business Week
For those of you that love to read each and every article about GTD or every interview David gives, we’ve got a treat for you today. David Appears in a Business Week article that just went up overnight. Allow me to state the obvious; GTD is starting to catch fire. If you’ve been a GTD’er …
Delegating The Desired Outcome
Maurice Gavin – former staff presenter with the David Allen Company During a recent seminar I delivered, a senior company leader asked the following question: How do you recommend I delegate? I have been asked this question before but lately it seems that this question, or one like it is being asked more and more …
