Community Contribution from Jason Verly On April 3, 2010, Apple released the iPad to the world. A day later I completely changed how I do my weekly reviews. Like most avid GTD’ers, I kept my weekly review to be a sacred and solemn time. I normally did my reviews on Sunday evening in my home …
Tag Archives: Implementing GTD
Tickler Lite?
The business type paperwork myself.
GTD for Moms
Community Contribution from April Perry Mothers need Getting Things Done as much as (or more than!) any other group. Why? Let me show you a glimpse into my life “pre-GTD.” My 7-year-old son, Ethan: Mom, want to see this cool toy lizard I got as a prize today? Me: Yep. Ooh. That’s neat. (Then in …
The trick for finding the GTD Coordinator paper planner
Many of you have been searching for the GTD Coordinator® paper planner. Created in partnership with Mead, this paper planner is designed GTD-style. It quickly sold out in the DavidCo store (except for blank refill packs), but you can still find the full 2010 GTD Coordinator in many Staples retail stores throughout the U.S. Here’s …
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The Psychology of OmniFocus
Ryan Norbauer wrote an interesting article on what he calls, “The Psychology of OmniFocus: How to Wrap your Head Around the Finest (and Most Perplexing) GTD App on the Market.” We know many of you are OmniFocus fans out there (we are too) and I thought this was an interesting read. I particularly liked: “If …
Road to Black Belt Webinar Series
Two of our senior coaches, Meg Edwards & Kelly Forrister, are doing a 3-part Webinar series for GTD Connect members. It will help those of you who are teetering from newbie to black belt–you know the basics, but are ready for a deeper cut with GTD to really make it stick (and actually get that …
Free GTD & Lotus Notes Webinar with David Allen
For GTD implementer on Lotus Notes, tomorrow is a rare opportunity to attend a free Webinar with David Allen. ICA, developers of the eProductivity tool David uses to manage his workflow in Lotus Notes, is hosting a Webinar that is free and open to the public. Wednesday, April 28th @ 10am PT. Register now>>>
How important are the tools you use with GTD?
For those of you who are still grappling with questions about the tools you use for GTD, check out this 2 minute video from David Allen: [HTML1] For more GTD videos, check out GTD Connect, our online learning center. You’ll find nearly 100 Videos on GTD Connect, from “2 Minutes with David Allen” clips to …
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When you feel like you are losing control & lacking perspective
A Community Contribution from Augusto Pinaud, a GTD enthusiast and long-time GTD Connect member Take the free GTD-Q assessment at GTDIQ.com to see how you’re doing with control & perspective. As GTD implementers, the goal for many of us is to increase Control and improve Perspective. That will bring you to the place that David …
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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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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Take a Guided GTD Weekly Review Class on Twitter
I’ll be doing another free guided GTD Weekly Review on Twitter this coming Friday, March 26th at 10am California time. These events are fun, easy to follow and a great way to get a taste of a GTD best practice. What: It will be a working Twitter class. Over an hour, I’ll guide people through …
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