A little bit of poking about today lead me to a curious discovery - what appears to be a very basic “To Do” list from Google - or at least from Google Mashups. While this is far from a GTD ready implementation of a task list, it nevertheless is interesting since it may be an indication that Google is finally starting to more towards launching a more fully featured task list or project management utility in the near future…

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If you haven’t subscribed to GTD Connect and you want to take your GTD ability to the next level - you might just want to reconsider. In addition to the information coming directly from David and the other David Allen Company coaches there are members-only forums accessible from the David Allen Company website that often have great questions and equally great advice. Take the following example. [Read more →]

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If you’re like most busy professionals then you probably know just what a pain it is to schedule a meeting with one - let alone more than one - other busy person. It probably won’t surprise you that on average it can take as many as nine (as in one less than ten) email messages to schedule a single meeting with a single person. If this sounds like a ridiculous waste of time to you than Tungle is an application you’ll love. [Read more →]

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Editors Note: This great piece has been contributed by GTD Community Member Joe Ely who was kind enough to offer to share his personal GTD system with us in the following post.

A bit about Joe: Joe Ely is the Director of Operations at Cook Biotech, Inc, a medical device manufacturing company in West Lafayette, Indiana. He writes the blog Learning About Lean, a study of Lean Manufacturing. In his spare time he enjoys distance running and the Chicago Cubs, both avocations requiring great endurance.

By Joe Ely joeely618 at gmail.com

Kelly Forrister recently blogged on what makes a good GTD list manager? One of the beauties of GTD is its flexibility; as such, the “best system” will vary for each individual. Being a systems geek myself, however, I’ve been working for sometime to find what works for me. Kelly and Oliver invited me to share my decidedly low-tech system which, for me, meets all of Kelly’s criteria… [Read more →]

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Don’t Look Down…

This should probably be filed under “reasons to appreciate YouTube”. This pathway, called the El Caminito Del Rey is in Malaga, Spain. It was constructed (lord only knows HOW it was constructed) around 1901 for the purpose of controlling some sluice-ways from the canyon walls into the valley below.

The sure-footed videographer is among the finest free climbers I have ever seen (check out his other videos ). According to the comments on the original Brightcove post (anyone know how to embed Brightcove video in WordPress MU?) the music is “Magic Of Politics” by Micheal Darius, the sampled voice, is John F Kennedy reading Faulkner. The track can be found at Michael Dario’s website.

Extra Dimensions and the Theory of…Everything

Brian Greene takes us on a fascinating journey from the discovery of gravity to the possibility that the universe is made up not of three, but of eleven total dimensions and that all matter is made up of tiny vibrating “strings” of energy…

Bonus Footage:

Finally, GTD with ADD and OCD? Yep, according to Chris Pirillo

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Michael Elgan over at Datamation has a very interesting post intended to introduce busy executives to the practice of GTD. While some of what he recommends differs from the strict approach to GTD that die-hard adherents choose, clearly, he has developed a system that works for him and by extension could help out the typical busy executive who hasn’t had the benefit of GTD or even read the book for that matter.

In fact, Michael appeals to readers of his post that they promise to go out and buy themselves a copy of David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” if his tips make a difference in their work flow. Having had the benefit of seeing just how much even applying the basics of GTD to how I handle email, I believe that the number of people buying copies of David’s book ought to equal the number of people that read the post and do what Mike suggests; after all who could fail to notice an improvement even partially following David’s principles?<!–more–>

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Many of you probably already know the name Eric Mack. He’s a long standing and highly respected member of the GTD community and he’s been authoring multiple blogs related to productivity and Getting Things Done for some time: : EricMackOnline and NotesOnProductivity .  For the past 15 years, Eric has served David Allen in a number of roles, as his personal technologist, chief technology advisor, and director of technology

Eric has been a technologist since his early teens. He built his first computer system at age 15, and quickly branched into software development when, at 16, he designed and developed flight-planning software for a Lear Jet charter company. At 18, Eric launched his first consulting firm to help organizations deploy microcomputer technology in a pre-IBM PC era.

Over the next two decades, Eric lent his technological expertise to numerous businesses and organizations, including the U.S. Air Force, which asked him to help establish its first microcomputer system. Through his software company, Peloria Technology Corporation (founded in 1992), Eric developed wireless messaging and server-based agent technology for messaging applications. His MailScout software sold more than 500,000 licenses.

Today, through his new company, ICA.COM, Inc., Eric promotes his ICA consulting model for eProductivity. His eProductivity suite of software for Lotus Notes (launched in 2007) implements the Getting Things Done methodology espoused by Eric’s friend David Allen.

Eric and his wife, Kathy, live in a tiny resort community in the mountains of Southern California, where they home educate their four daughters. Eric holds a degree in Organizational Management and is currently pursuing a graduate degree in Information and Knowledge Management.

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Michael Sampson over at Effective Collaboration has a post that I found quite interesting.  Zen Habits is a very popular blog among the GTD community, however Michael, in a recent post, took exception to some statements that Leo made concerning GTD, its degree of complexity, and how he (Leo) has simplified the system.  What do you think?

The image is from a related post over at Zoomstart.com .

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Geekrepreneur has listed five of what they consider to be the best GTD resources running under Windows Vista. If you’re a Vista user you might just want to cruise on over and have a look at why they like the following applications:

SimpleGTD

ThinkingRock

FusionDesk

Tudumo

43 Folders

We’ll be doing our own review of some of these applications in the not too distant future.

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Linux, GTD and Sweet, Sweet Music is a blog primarily dedicated to using Linux for GTD related tasks - or doing GTD related tasks while running Linux - your choice. There’s an article they just published that - for the technically inclined - is an excellent and detailed resource on using mh-e under GTD.

If you’re a techie of the more hardcore variety, this site is certainly going to appeal to you, for the author of the site - I’d be glad to update this post with some information about you if you care to provide any; your “about you” section of your blog is very sparsley populated. Pete Phillips, the author of this blog has in interesting and eclectic background. If you’re every in his part of the UK, you should check out his band…

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