GTD

Stop to think, and you’re dead. When you have the time and energy to actually do something, you should have already thought out what to do, to no lose momentum.

David Allen gives a rare glimpse inside his own office, demonstrating how he processes his paper inbox. You’ll see real examples transforming stuff into clarified actions and reference.

An interesting video where David empties his own physical in-basket using eProductivity for Lotus Notes and Evernote for reference material. It seems he struggles like everyone else with certain gray-zone items, and that he is also using Evernote for reference just like me.

For email, it’s actually less effort to maintain it at zero than to maintain it at three hundred.

David Allen talks about the effort required to maintaining an inbox at zero in contrast to another number.

In this test, you will find out how you score in the relation between perspective and control, together with an explanation. You can read more about the different result quadrants in the accompanying PDF.

The Elusive Inventory of Your Projects is an article written by David Allen, regarding projects and how to define them.

People complain about “too much to do,” and yet most couldn’t give you, in the moment, a complete and accurately defined inventory of what they’ve committed “to do” if their life depended on it.

It’s All Work is an article written by Erik Hanberg for the GTD Times which discusses the concept of work. vs. life in terms of personal time and having fun.

As I was implementing GTD for the first time, I understood the concept as a way to make sure that I didn’t lose track of the fun things in life. If my lists concerned only work-related areas, it would always feel like a chore to check them. But I added projects like “Experience great art,” and “See the world.” That means that every week I think about those two projects and make sure I am scheduling them, whether it’s “Watch next disc of Mad Men” or “Reserve train tickets in Italy.”

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David Allen: Transforming a senior executive’s productivity.

David Allen’s GTD Implementation Guide is a just-released PDF guide to help those who have read Getting Things Done to take it to the next level. There is a lot more detail to all steps of the process and how much time it is expected to take. It can be thought of as a part two of the book.

I am looking forward to reading this as soon as I get the time!

Colin Wheeler writes about his journey about Going from Failing to Straight A’s with OmniFocus & GTD. It is very interesting to see GTD being used from a student’s perspective, instead of the working professional normally shown.

Habit Fields is an article from A List Apart, describing how different physical places assert certain behavior.

The more capable and multipurpose our tools become, the more the burden of deciding what they do shifts on us. Physical constraints must be replaced by artificial ones, and the effectiveness of our tools becomes an extension of our own willpower and self-discipline.

Just because you can have instant access at your fingertips doesn’t mean you should.

Finding your own trusted GTD system to feel at ease, even though you are forced to use certain tools at work. Chip Joyce shares his story on using Omnifocus together with Lotus Notes and getting everything working.

The Psychology of OmniFocus (How to Wrap your Head Around the Finest (and Most Perplexing) GTD App on the Market) is an excellent article by Ryan Norbauer, describing how he uses OmniFocus, the GTD pitfalls, and his core thinking:

The main point of OmniFocus is to hide things from you that you can’t possibly be doing right now while still letting you track them.

This is a good read if you have been curious about OmniFocus and haven’t dived in and tried it yet.

Have you ever been at that point when your calendar is full and your task list is falling apart from all items jotted down? Well, thanks to To-done and the How I learned to stop worrying and love my schedule article I have begun laying out all tasks in the calendar itself.

It may seem like a common thing to do, but when you use it, and I mean really use it, everything seems to fall into place automatically. There is no need to worry about what I am going to do next, or if I am focusing on the correct thing at the moment – Everything is laid out in front of me on my P910i.