GTD and Gmail Archives - Getting Things Done® David Allen's GTD® Methodology Sun, 05 Jan 2020 23:40:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 Is Gmail’s Priority Inbox anti-GTD? https://gettingthingsdone.com/2010/08/is-gmails-priority-inbox-anti-gtd/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=is-gmails-priority-inbox-anti-gtd https://gettingthingsdone.com/2010/08/is-gmails-priority-inbox-anti-gtd/#comments Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:29:37 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/?p=4098 Google announced Priority Inbox today and the emails started flooding in asking, “Isn’t this anti-GTD?” Google says that Priority Inbox “automatically identifies your important email and separates it out from everything else, so you can focus on what really matters.” So, what does David Allen say about this kind of tool and the questions about …

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]]> https://gettingthingsdone.com/2010/08/is-gmails-priority-inbox-anti-gtd/feed/ 12 OneNote and ActiveWords — Ferrari Fast https://gettingthingsdone.com/2010/02/onenote-and-activewords-ferrari-fast/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=onenote-and-activewords-ferrari-fast https://gettingthingsdone.com/2010/02/onenote-and-activewords-ferrari-fast/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:00:23 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/?p=3271 A Community Contribution from Ryan Oakley Whether you’re a proficient OneNote user or just started using it after reading my GTD and OneNote article posted on GTD Times it doesn’t take long to populate the software with a tonne of pages and a tonne of information (yes, I am Canadian). First, some definitions: MS Office …

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]]> https://gettingthingsdone.com/2010/02/onenote-and-activewords-ferrari-fast/feed/ 16 Tricks for capturing Waiting For emails https://gettingthingsdone.com/2009/12/tricks-for-capturing-waiting-fors/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tricks-for-capturing-waiting-fors https://gettingthingsdone.com/2009/12/tricks-for-capturing-waiting-fors/#comments Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:09:43 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/?p=2464 One of the key buckets in your GTD system is Waiting For.  So what’s the biggest creator of Waiting For? Sent emails. Sure, you could slog through your Sent folder for which ones you actually need to make sure to track, but that’s like searching for a contact lens on the beach.  Good luck having …

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]]> https://gettingthingsdone.com/2009/12/tricks-for-capturing-waiting-fors/feed/ 33 Getting the most out of Gmail https://gettingthingsdone.com/2009/09/getting-the-most-out-of-gmail/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=getting-the-most-out-of-gmail https://gettingthingsdone.com/2009/09/getting-the-most-out-of-gmail/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:39:09 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/?p=2217 The better you are at using a tool, and the more you love the tools you use, the more effective they will be for your GTD system.  David Allen has said time and time again, learn at least the basic speed keys for the tools you use the most, so the tool is not slowing …

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