Educational Tools Archives - Getting Things Done® https://gettingthingsdone.com/category/educational-tools/ David Allen's GTD® Methodology Tue, 12 Nov 2019 19:05:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 David Allen on the Best Software for GTD https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/07/david-allen-on-the-best-software-for-gtd/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=david-allen-on-the-best-software-for-gtd https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/07/david-allen-on-the-best-software-for-gtd/#comments Wed, 03 Jul 2019 17:54:50 +0000 https://gettingthingsdone.com/?p=18573 David Allen on the Best Software for GTD

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]]> https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/07/david-allen-on-the-best-software-for-gtd/feed/ 29 What Science Says About Stress, Cognition, and Clarity https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/06/what-science-says-about-stress-cognition-and-clarity/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-science-says-about-stress-cognition-and-clarity https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/06/what-science-says-about-stress-cognition-and-clarity/#comments Fri, 14 Jun 2019 18:56:39 +0000 https://gettingthingsdone.com/?p=18490 Your head is a terrible office. Your mind evolved to do incredible stuff—like stay alive in the desert or jungle. In fact, you’re benefiting from its evolved capacities right now: without effort, you recognize patterns and store and retrieve information to make sense of the myriad inputs coming at you twenty-four seven. You can look …

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]]> https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/06/what-science-says-about-stress-cognition-and-clarity/feed/ 2 GTD® and Outlook® for Mac 2019 Setup Guide https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/05/gtd-and-asana-setup-guide-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gtd-and-asana-setup-guide-2 https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/05/gtd-and-asana-setup-guide-2/#respond Thu, 30 May 2019 07:00:00 +0000 https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/05/gtd-and-asana-setup-guide-2/ GTD and Outlook for Mac 2019It’s here! We’re happy to announce our new best-practices guide for implementing GTD with Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2019.® This Guide will show you how to: – Understand the fundamental GTD best practices – Optimally configure Outlook for Mac 2019 in the way we have found works best for GTD – Set up Outlook Tasks …

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]]> https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/05/gtd-and-asana-setup-guide-2/feed/ 0 GTD and Outlook for Mac 2019 10 Reasons GTD is Like Karate https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/05/10-reasons-gtd-is-like-karate/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=10-reasons-gtd-is-like-karate https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/05/10-reasons-gtd-is-like-karate/#comments Tue, 21 May 2019 07:00:00 +0000 https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/05/10-reasons-gtd-is-like-karate/ David AllenFor years I have woven the martial arts metaphor in and through my writing, training and coaching about the Getting Things Done® methodology. I had the good fortune to be able to study karate for several years in my twenties, and my familiarity with that field gave me a rich context of images and concepts …

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]]> https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/05/10-reasons-gtd-is-like-karate/feed/ 2 David Allen Episode #50: David Allen Talks with Brian Robertson https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/05/episode-50-david-allen-talks-with-brian-robertson/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=episode-50-david-allen-talks-with-brian-robertson https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/05/episode-50-david-allen-talks-with-brian-robertson/#respond Wed, 15 May 2019 07:00:00 +0000 https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/05/episode-49-david-allen-talks-with-nancy-duarte-and-patti-sanchez-2/ David Allen and Brian Robertson discuss how we as humans relate to our own attention, and how the increasing complexity of our work environment has necessitated that we get stuff off our minds. They point out multiple common threads between Getting Things Done for individuals and Holacracy® for organizations. They also consider what happens after …

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]]> https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/05/episode-50-david-allen-talks-with-brian-robertson/feed/ 0 GTD® and Asana® Setup Guide https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/05/gtd-and-asana-setup-guide/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gtd-and-asana-setup-guide https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/05/gtd-and-asana-setup-guide/#comments Thu, 09 May 2019 07:00:00 +0000 https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/05/gtd-and-asana-setup-guide/ It’s here! We’re happy to announce our new best-practices guide for implementing GTD with Asana. This Guide will show you how to: – Understand the fundamental GTD best practices – Optimally configure Asana in the way we have found works best for GTD – Integrate your actionable email – Create project and next actions lists …

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]]> https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/05/gtd-and-asana-setup-guide/feed/ 1 Building a Productivity Jungle https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/05/building-a-productivity-jungle/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=building-a-productivity-jungle https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/05/building-a-productivity-jungle/#respond Mon, 06 May 2019 07:00:00 +0000 https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/05/building-a-productivity-jungle/ The GTD Summit kicks off in just seven weeks! We are in the midst of finalizing our program and I am excited to announce that Emily Gregory of VitalSmarts will be joining our incredible lineup. She’s going to be sharing insights on effectively managing 10,000+ people. As well as our stage content, we have been working …

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]]> https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/05/building-a-productivity-jungle/feed/ 0 Technology and Productivity https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/04/technology-and-productivity/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=technology-and-productivity https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/04/technology-and-productivity/#respond Thu, 18 Apr 2019 07:00:00 +0000 https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/04/technology-and-productivity/ How does technology affect your productivity? Despite my thirty-five years of consulting, coaching, and training in hundreds of organizations, I don’t have an easy answer to that question. The digital tools we need and like require more intensive labor than they should. It would be great to have a digital dashboard that integrated all apps, …

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]]> https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/04/technology-and-productivity/feed/ 0 Episode #49: David Allen Talks with Nancy Duarte and Patti Sanchez https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/04/episode-49-david-allen-talks-with-nancy-duarte-and-patti-sanchez/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=episode-49-david-allen-talks-with-nancy-duarte-and-patti-sanchez https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/04/episode-49-david-allen-talks-with-nancy-duarte-and-patti-sanchez/#respond Mon, 15 Apr 2019 07:00:00 +0000 https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/04/episode-49-david-allen-talks-with-nancy-duarte-and-patti-sanchez/ Join David Allen for an intriguing discussion about leadership and the architecture of story, with Nancy Duarte and Patti Sanchez. They came to fame when they created the presentations that Al Gore used in speeches for several years before An Inconvenient Truth won the Academy Award for best documentary. Their book is Illuminate, “a road-map …

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]]> https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/04/episode-49-david-allen-talks-with-nancy-duarte-and-patti-sanchez/feed/ 0 Closing the Loops on Meeting Notes https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/03/closing-the-loops-on-meeting-notes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=closing-the-loops-on-meeting-notes https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/03/closing-the-loops-on-meeting-notes/#comments Fri, 22 Mar 2019 07:00:00 +0000 https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/03/closing-the-loops-on-meeting-notes/ I’m often asked about the best practices for taking meeting notes, including how to process them after the meeting. Here are some tips and suggestions that I hope will be useful to you. Capturing ideas, relevant information, etc. during meetings is important so that you don’t have to rely on your brain to remind you …

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