Comments on: A Writer’s GTD Journey

By: Ivana

Ivana — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:49:26 +0000

Update to this. Over a week later and it’s still neat as a pin (no I haven’t been let go). I’m really intyrg to keep on top of it. Simple stuff, y’know.. setting aside the last 10min of every day to just put crap away again. Seems to be working so far. But a week is only a week. I need some time to fail at things.

By: Kate

Kate — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:15:18 +0000

Thanks for your article Jenna, very helpful ideas! I know what you mean about the ‘endless scroll’ of possible projects — so true! :)

By: Kelly Forrister

Kelly Forrister — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:44:51 +0000

Thanks to all who hopped in to reply to “Joe.” We discovered this is a fake profile and not this person’s real name. We were able to trace it back to the source. So sorry Jenna’s wonderful story got hijacked this way!

By: Caspar

Caspar — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:20:17 +0000

Beside Joes comment it would interest me how Jenna is structuring the “Writing tasks” for each project. I always have problems in that.

By: Barbara Bailey

Barbara Bailey — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:48:30 +0000

I recently attended “Projects and Priorities” and I couldn’t disagree more with Joe.

First let me say that I have been practicing GTD about 10-years, I have every one of their CD sets, and I’ve been a Connect member for about 5 years. On top of that, I have experience in training and development. I would consider myself to be a tough audience for any and all of these reasons.

AND I LOVED THE TIME I SPENT WITH THE GROUP. It was worth every penny, AND I learned some things because I heard them in new ways and had the benefit of interacting with like-minded people. For me, it was time very well spent.

My overall assessment:

Instructor: Top notch
Materials: First Class
Information Covered: Just Right
Time to interact with others: Right on target

And Joe? Giving constructive feedback is useful…blasting away in the manner that you did simply is not. Please keep in mind that these are good people, doing their best to satisfy a wide audience of people. Do people blog about how you perform YOUR job?

By: Trent

Trent — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:45:14 +0000

Original post is good. Thanks for that. I’m not a professional writer, but this way of using GTD seems useful. Too bad the long comment is an off-topic rant.

By: Cathy

Cathy — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:08:46 +0000

I went to a GTD seminar last year and it was great. It was nothing like what this guy says. I’m still using stuff I learned.

By: John

John — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:24:16 +0000

HI Joe,

I’m really sorry to hear that you didn’t enjoy the seminar. Please write to customerservice@davidco.com, or call 805-646-8432 so we can arrange a refund.

Best,
John

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:56:23 +0000

The David Allen training is a total joke. What a waste of time. Do yourself a favor and maybe buy the cd’s but definitely DO NOT go to the training. Now THAT is a waste of time and money. Better yet, go to the 43 Folders site and since they pretty much STOLE all of that system and claimed it as their own, you can get it for FREE there. And if you are unfortunate enough to get duped into one of their $750 training, DO NOT buy any of their crap they are selling! First of all, their trainers were not very good, boring, and if I heard “Turn to your neighbor next to you” one more time as an “Activity” I was going to get up and leave. Within one hour of this garbage, ALL of the people around me were mocking “the system” and the boring trainer who was trying hard to sell it as something worthwile. What a joke. Then they tried to sell a bunch of David Allen crap to us that was just as much over priced garbage as their training. I am NOT KIDDING when I tell you that I saw the EXACT SAME bag at BIG LOTS for ONE DOLLAR as they were trying to schlep on us for $19.95. REALLY? By the time the long day was over, I was so mad about spending the money and getting nothing for it as well as seeing a big advertisement for me to buy more of their crap. David Allen, you should be ashamed of yourself trying to sell yourself as as real “system” that won’t work for 95% of the working population, and then try selling YOUR NAME on crap. Anyone who has had the misfortune of sitting through your horrible training should not only get their money back, but also get paid for their time they wasted sitting in front of your horrible trainers. The best I would suspect from the small crappy company you have is to receive a gift certificate for a FREE bag to put MORE of my worthless David Allen crap into. Thanks for nothing.

By: Rajiv Kumar Luv

Rajiv Kumar Luv — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:09:40 +0000

I think I arrived at the right time on this page. I have a lot to do, lots of unfinished projects. This article has give me good tips, which will help to not get overwhelmed.
Rajiv