One of the tools David Allen uses on his PC is ActiveWords, a tool often described as “solving a problem you didn’t know you had.” It essentially streamlines the navigation and common tasks we do all day long; send emails, go to web sites, create new tasks, insert text, open files and more. Recently, David …
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Ever have your desk (or office or house) become your Inbox? Paul Garth, Director of Technology for the David Allen Company, recently moved his office space. For a short while, his entire desk was his Inbox. We couldn’t resist taking before and after photos. As David Allen says, GTD is not about never being out …
Rachelle, director of public events for the David Allen Company, asked us to pass this along to the GTD Times readers: The GTD: Mastering Workflow seminar is coming to Denver, Colorado on Thursday, May 28th. As a special offer for GTD Times readers, take 10% off the registration fee with the code Rocky10. Whether you …
A GTD Times community contribution by Arif and Ali Vakil What made Einstein an Einstein or Newton a Newton? It was their amazing capability to look at what everybody was looking at, but see something different. The world sees an apple falling from a tree, but Newton notices there’s something greater at work here–it’s gravity. …
Anyone using BumpTop for your GTD workflow? Perhaps it’s a way to do on-the-fly mindsweep captures? Assist with the collection phase? Wrangle your open loops? If any GTD’ers out there are using it, we’d love to hear how you’ve made it a part of your GTD system.
My income mostly comes from two areas: writing and web development. Doing both, I’ve discovered certain similarities of work between writing and coding. Each has certain activities that can take a really long time. And in both, it’s often important to attack those activities in large chunks of time. I’ve come back to a writing …
Over the years, many people have reached out to us asking how they can share the GTD techniques with kids and young adults. This letter below is from a GTD’er who got value from the article one of our senior staff wrote about his experience using GTD’s Natural Planning Model (p.54 of the GTD book) …
Anyone who is entertaining the idea of implementing some form of productivity system in their business (or life, for that matter) will have a lot of resources at their disposal. The Internet alone has nearly 15,000 sites that mention GTD and personal/professional productivity, so right there you’ve got as much surfing to do as the …
Eric Hanberg is a regular community contributor to GTD Times. You can also follow his personal blog, with musings on the arts, technology and politics. So I’ve done pretty well in the last 9 months adopting GTD into my daily life. I’m more productive, I’m happier, and I don’t feel like I’m ducking when I …
David did an hour-long podcast this morning for the Leadership Coach Academy for their members. Listen as David describes GTD, Making It All Work, and his approach to “elegant laziness!”
For those of you who were at the GTD Summit, you heard David mention in is opening remarks (which will be posted this week to the GTD Connect video library), the letter from the elderly woman who says she gets more inspiration from GTD than from many typical things targeted at seniors. Here’s her letter: …
We often get asked for our recommendations about the best ways to learn and master GTD. As with any new skill, the best way to start is with how you like to learn. For example, if you wanted to learn Italian you could go through audio lessons, go to an in-person class, move to Italy …
We are fortunate to receive many wonderful letters from people across the globe telling us how GTD has affected their lives in a positive way. This letter was sent to David Allen from Jason, who said that GTD may have saved his wife’s life. We thought you would all like to hear his wonderful story: …
Time for clearing the cobwebs and a spring clean In a household with kids our house is lived in. Sand and dirt collect in the hallway and stairs, then gets its way around the house. Everything settles and collects in corners or piles. “Papa where are my shoes?” “I need my Russian books, I had …
One of the David Allen Company senior coaches recently worked with Business Week Executive Editor Ellen Joan Pollock. Read Ellen’s entertaining account of how she got a grip on her workweek. The goal: 10 extra hours in my week. The plan of attack: none. That’s pretty much where I was when Marian Bateman, a productivity …
A Community Contribution by Arif & Ali Vakil Practicing GTD makes choosing what to do at any given moment in time considerably easier. The three models that David Allen has framed for identifying priorities (ie Horizons of Focus, Limiting Criteria and Three-Fold Nature of Work) are brilliant. However, even after you’ve earned your GTD Blackbelt, …
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Eric Mack, the individual behind David Allen’s new favorite tool, eProductivity, has got a pretty amazing promotion going over at his site right now. The first ten people to take advantage of his special offer will get a free pass to the GTD Global Summit. If you want to get eProductivity at the best price …
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Editor’s Note: Over the next two weeks we’ll be providing some advanced coverage of the GTD Global Summit so that you can get some idea of what to expect (and what those of you foolish enough to miss this event will be missing) as well as whom to expect it from. Following a brief bio …
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Fokke Kooistra, author of the popular “Productivity 101” blog as well as a former contributor to GTDtimes recently attended one of David’s new “Making it All Work” seminars recently. Below is an excerpt of his thoughts on this experience. To read his full review, please visit Fokke’s site directly at right here. was visiting the …
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According to the results of a recent survey that appeared in USA Today on Dec. 29, 2008, productivity has become one of the top challenges for executives. The survey was conducted by Robert Half Management Resources. If the survey is to be believed — and there’s no reason why it should not — then there’s …
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