More than a year ago, I published the GTD with Gmail Whitepaper here on space-age wasteland. Some very minor (but very confusing) errors were pointed out and I have revised the document. Here it is.
Category Archives: GTD
Wikipedia GTD Mention
The GTD with Gmail Whitepaper gets a mention in Wikipedia (Principles of GTD Organization) and an external link. It’s pretty awesome that the author mentioned me by name. I love the smell of The Long Tail. A (quite infrequent) review of Google Analytics showed a big spike in traffic (zero-something) referred from en.wikipedia.org and I …
Meetings: Good Idea, Bad Idea
It seems that the one carryover from brick-and-mortar, manual, old school business to the new knowledge-based economy is that upper management likes to have meetings. Meetings are necessary. Meetings suck. Here’s my meeting school: Meetings are good: Task assignments are best identified by the team, rather than just direct orders by a superior. Resource allocations …
Staying on the GTD Wagon (Part III)
I’ve talked about little victories before and I think this is important to keep Getting Things Done. Two tips to help gain little victories: Track the little things. If I’m about to go to the store to go get light bulbs, I’ll go ahead and track the task. I’m not gonna forget to go to …
Staying on the GTD Wagon (Part II)
It’s much harder to stay on top of your GTD if the system isn’t working for you. GTD works, so don’t blame the system. There are a number of small things that can go wrong, however, if you aren’t careful. Exercise regular reviews. If you aren’t reviewing, you aren’t Getting Things Done. I review my …
Staying on the GTD Wagon (Part I)
I’m starting another series on GTD. I hear from a lot of people that they have a hard time staying in it once they start, so this will be a series of quick tips to keep it going. Unify your inboxes. Since I use gmail for GTD, I never fall down on keeping my gmail …
Day 3 of 48
Today, I read Chapter 4 of 48 Days… which started off talking about goals and actions. If there are two things I can handle, David Allen made sure they were goals and actions. Dan Miller outlines a 5-step decision-making process: State the Problem: Easy. My career and my calling don’t match. I don’t work in …
“Everyday I Write the Book”
Reader’s Digest has a feature, Only In America, which highlights “Ideas, trends and interesting bits from all over” – all over America, I presume. October’s edition of this feature included two very interesting storiettes. The first of these mentioned David Allen and GTD, clutter busting, and feng shui. The fruit of the meme, however, was …
Quick GTD with Gmail Tip
Check out this beautiful little URL: fancy! This brings me to my Next Action list. Big deal, right? Well let’s rope in some other technology (that I’m already using) to sweeten the pot of gold: I posted the aforementioned URL into del.icio.us (a social bookmark manager that you definitely should be using) so it can …
An Antithetical Matter
It has been brought to my attention by friends, people I’ve never even met and by the little voice in the back of my head that it’s been a long time since I’ve posted. While this is true, there is good reason. I set out here to offer, support, and field good ideas on productivity …