Category Archives: Free Resources

We turned David Allen’s formula for organizing into a webinar, and this recording is the result. It’s good for all GTD practitioners, new or experienced. As you watch and listen, you may want to have available David’s table showing examples of how Meaning Translates to Organization.

Noa and Idit of Skills Boutique share gems of wisdom in this interview. You will hear about how they started their company to address challenges in the future of work, and found that GTD has the tools to handle those challenges.

Marcus Ramtohul is a musician, actor, model, husband, father, and . . . a GTD trainer! His band Andy and the Odd Socks have released BBC Children In Need’s first ever Christmas charity single – a cover of “Merry Christmas Everyone” by Shakin’ Stevens. And Shaky himself even features in the music video!

Jerry Kolber really knows his GTD. He began his journey with a paper system, then was an early adopter of the Palm Pilot and later Palm devices, using Life Balance. He has steadily upgraded his system with newer apps, most recently OmniFocus and Things. With each of these tools, he has maintained a deep commitment to refining his approach to productivity and mindfulness.

In this recording we discussed places in your workflow where decision fatigue can show up, ways to reduce the impact, and ways to recover. Here are links to points mentioned in the discussion.

Join David for a fascinating talk with Frederik Pferdt, whose book is called What’s Next is Now.

We explore how careful clarifying leads to better lists and easier reviews. Includes Q&A with GTD Connect members.

This webinar recording gives you hands-on practice with David Allen’s instinctual, five-stage thought process for naturally planning your projects. You’ll learn by taking several projects through defining purpose and principles, envisioning the outcome, brainstorming, organizing, and identifying next actions. The silent working time for planning has been edited out, so you can simply pause and take as long as you want for each segment.

In our most recent Office Hour, we considered several questions. How to know when the urge to change the tool is because of a limitation with the current tool, or when it is covering a GTD implementation issue? How far ahead can we know what potential actions a project will have, beyond the one next action? When to create sub-categories within a larger Read/Review category?

In this webinar recording, we explore the best use of your calendar, and how your calendar relates to the three types of work that you do. If you are new to GTD, this will help you build a solid foundation to support your practice. If you are experienced, you can update your practice if changes are indicated.

Are you among those who have not yet made the review a habit? Experience what David Allen calls the “critical success factor” with GTD, by going through a complete GTD Weekly Review. You’ll experience all 11 steps of the process, with helpful discussion along the way. The silent time to work on each step is edited out, so you can pause the recording on any step for as long as you choose.

In this interview, David Allen talks with Andy and Tim Cotterill, a father and son who are both GTD enthusiasts. They run a family farm in the West Midlands of England. They also have a busy drainage and construction company, Cotterill Civils. Tim is also a student. Andy found GTD in 2013 when he was trying to keep pace with his growing business while still spending time with family. Tim started using GTD a couple of years later, when he needed it to manage his student workload. They share about their GTD implementations with warmth and humor.

David Allen, Rick Kantor, and Robert Peake presented an inspiring look at how they create space for creativity to flourish. It’s a lively discussion that included plenty of references to articles, books, and websites to support your creative explorations.

David Allen and Ed Lamont talk about the new book, Team: Getting Things Done with Others. The book is scheduled for publication in May 2024. In this recording, David and Ed share about why they wrote it, and how it can help teams of any size, whether they’re comprised of colleagues at work, family members, or friends.

Who knew that reading Getting Things Done would lead Emily to driving David Allen around Boston? After setting up and using her own system, she invited David to speak about GTD at her organization. That was a few years ago, and she’s been encouraging colleagues to build in the GTD best practices ever since. You’ll hear Emily describe her first system, and how she uses the app that she has been on in recent years. She’s an inspiring example of productive work-life balance.

David has a fascinating conversation with Charles Duhigg, whose new book is Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection. Charles says, “With the right tools, we can connect with anyone.”

In this wide-ranging conversation, David and Gina DiRoma cover a variety of GTD topics. They even get around to GTD and improvisational comedy. Gina is the Corporate Events and Sales Director at SAK Comedy Lab, where the motto is “we make stuff up.” That’s a perfect complement to David’s phrase, “Make it up, make it happen.”

When asked how a company does GTD, David Allen’s answer is, “Holacracy.” It’s a self-organizing management framework that has GTD built in. The David Allen Company has been running on this framework since 2011. This recording on how GTD is incorporated into Holacracy’s governing structure is from a presentation for the Holacracy community of practice.

Ariadne begins by recounting how this interview stayed on her Someday/Maybe list for quite some time before becoming a reality. She also describes her GTD journey, the tools she has tried, and her daily and weekly processes for living a balanced, low-stress life.