Lifehacker Interviews Emily Boyd of Remember the Milk (1)
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Lifehacker has an interesting interview posted with Emily Boyd, one of the Co-Founders of Remember the Milk (RTM). If you’ve never checked out this very cool web based application for managing tasks you might want to read the interview and then head on over to their site. The basic RTM is free and a lot of people swear by it. It is almost endlessly customizable and because it is web based, nearly ubiquitously available. Lifehacker ...
There’s a Time and Place for Long Prose - Email Is Rarely It (2)
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I love reading good prose, particularly a good narrative. Sometimes prose is called for in an email — to tell a story, explain your reasoning, provide some depth regarding your feelings on a topic, etc. Some people prefer the phone or face-to-face for those things, but in many situations, email is sufficient. But many of the emails we send and receive every day aren’t this kind of content. They are instead heavily task-oriented — all ...
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Another Great Source of GTD Content: GTD Blogs Toplist (2)
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It never ceases to amaze me how much good GTD content has been scattered around the Internet. There are so many smart people employing GTD in their daily lives and discovering new ways in which it can be implemented that there is virtually an infinite number of posts and articles that cover David Allen’s systematic approach to personal productivity. Today I came across another very nice compendium of GTD content that consolidates a huge amount ...
The Calm Amidst the Storm (1)
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David Allen says “You’d probably find yourself with a much larger list of things you had taken on to get done as a result of feeling so great from getting the existing stuff done” (paraphrased) You author concurs, but has an additional thought: You might learn something about ‘completion’: “the calm amidst storm” You see when I ask people in a seminar what they would feel like were I to wave a wand over their ...
Hot Off the Press: David Allen Launches New GTD Channel on YouTube (8)
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I’ve got some big news for GTD enthusiasts and followers of David Allen’s Getting Things Done systematic approach to personal productivity. David in conjunction with the David Allen Company have just launched a new YouTube Channel dedicated to Getting Things Done. This new YouTube Channel is a compilation of those videos that David or his staff feel are especially useful for helping people to put David’s GTD methodology into practice. If you’re a regular YouTube ...
The Best GTD Post I’ve Read in Like…Forever. (3)
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Chris Bowler of the Weekly Review has written a post I call a must read. He talks of discipline and priorities and tweaking your system and in my opinion does a truly incredible job of putting into perspective something that I think anyone that’s done GTD for any length of time probably realizes at some instinctive level but probably can’t pull from subconscious to runway. Now we don’t have to because Chris does so for ...
Getting Email Done Part 1 - Getting a Life Outside of Email (3)
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This is the first article of the two I have prepared for you regarding dealing with email – this one is about tips and tricks of getting a life outside of email. The second part will be about key practices of getting email done and processing to empty. First thing – let’s try to get a life… a life Now, the big question – how to deal with email? How to reply to all of ...
Postbox; Are You Ready for Email 3.0? (1)
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TC50: I’ve seen the future of email and it’s on the desktop. Maybe. Postbox is a new company launching today here at TechCrunch 50. The application - and make no mistake about it, this is a full blown, download and install it desktop application - has set for itself some incredibly ambitious goals. From the demonstration of the software, in addition to the standard functions of send, receive, store, search, spell check, attach files, and ...
David Allen Reveals the Five “I’s” of GTD Applications (18)
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During the GTD Application Panel discussion at the recent Office 2.0 Conference David Allen revealed to a rapt audience his recent revelations about software applications designed to support the implementation of an individual’s GTD system. Summed up eloquently as the Five “I’s” they are as follows: Interception: the software must support the process of capturing ideas as they occur to you. A premium is placed upon the speed, ease and context appropriateness of this process. ...
GTD - Changing the World by Bringing Change from Within (4)
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Have you ever found yourself in the situation where you’re completely overwhelmed with all the work that surrounds you? At those times do you then you catch yourself complaining about the outside world “I wish my job wasn’t so demanding”, “I wish there wasn’t so much competition”, “I wish my team would just listen to me” etc. What can you do to get out of this mental trap? Here’s the secret: getting things working for ...
Office 2.0 Day One: David Allen Steals the Show (2)
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Bloggers from around the net were in attendance and they were quick to post on David’s rather surprising dual appearances (actually the first appearance had been announced on the Office2.o website months ago) but David’s second appearance, sitting on the GTD Applications Panel was a delightful surprise made all the much more exciting for what David revealed… (we’ll get to that in another post). Among the bloggers that had something to say about David’s speaking ...
Office 2.0 Today and Friday: David Allen Keynote and GTD Apps Panel- see it live or online (1)
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Don’t forget that tomorrow and Friday we’ve got the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. David Allen, the creator of GTD will be opening the conference in a joint keynote interview with conference founder and staunch GTD proponent Ismael Ghalimi. In case you missed this, it is already available online via event sponsor Veodia. Just check out the links below for resources that will allow you to see all the action at the Office 2.0 ...
Rob Thompson's Mega GTD List | GTD Times (5)
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Rob Thompson, an obvious fan of GTD has taken the time to compile a fairly exhaustive list of GTD related content, sites and resources. There are sites on here even I haven’t seen before so I’m sure there are plenty of resources you’ll find useful too. You might as well take a fifteen minute break right now and check it out. Productivity porn at its finest! (Even if Rob did leave out GTDtimes. I’m trying ...
The GTD RoadMap, August 2008 (4)
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Editor’s Note: This just came in from one of our contributors, Lynn O’Connor. When she sent it to me she suggested that this may sound too “commercial” for GTD times, but I felt like it was such a nice first-person account of what she experienced attending a RoadMap Seminar taught by David himself that I thought it would be of benefit to people who were curious about the experience and what someone who is very ...
What are Your Favorite Online Time Savers? (a List Every GTDer Should Love) (4)
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Every day it seems we spend more and more of our time in front of a computer screen. Whether it’s a monitor on a desk or a tiny hand held display on our phones, computers are such an essential part of our day to day lives that for most of us they are almost as indispensable as oxygen. Given that so much of our time is spent in front of these machines, it behooves us ...
How to feel Okay when You’re Not Doing Something (2)
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When you start climbing up the GTD implementation ladder you begin collecting, processing and organizing every cool idea that you come across. Pretty soon you have a huge list of projects together with an even more colossal list of next actions. It’s tempting to try and accomplish all of them; but what if you are @computer, @office and @call all at the same time? Do you feel like you should be doing many of the ...
What If…? and Why Not…? (some tough questions to ask yourself - answer bravely and win a DavidCo prize) (1)
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Editor’s Note: Here’s a short inspirational post by GTD Facilitator Maurice Gavin. He challenges himself as well as all of us to ask ourselves a tough question; Why Not? He doesn’t stop there, either. He goes on to ask “What if?” In your life you may only get a few moments where the answer to these questions can change your own future or possibly even everyone’s future. Back when I was still racing my bike, ...
The Six Dollar GTD System (5)
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Having a trusted reminder system is a critical success factor for GTD. Given GTD is really an approach that is tool agnostic, nearly any tool will work as long as you have the right ingredients. I laughed when I read a blog recently where someone tried swiping at GTD saying that “GTD is for techies only.” David Allen’s roots in working this methodology, as well as my own, come from the paper planner world. You ...
