In this 30-minute podcast, David and his team talk about the critical “thinking” stage of GTD. They share practical tips, personal examples and suggestions for the processing stage of mastering your workflow. Listen now.
If you missed the previous episode in our GTD best practices series on Collect, you can catch it here.
Years ago, David Allen worked with software design firm Netcentrics to create a GTD solution for Outlook users. 
In fact, it’s one of the few applications (Eric Mack’s eProductivity product is another) that has David’s fingerprints on the look, feel and functionality. Although you can customize Outlook to be more useful via the GTD & Outlook whitepaper, the Netcentrics GTD Outlook Add-In automated many of the customizations we suggest in that paper and adds a few key things that only the Add-In will do:
Link Projects to Actions (solving the timeless question and request from GTD’ers, “How do you know which project a next action relates to?”)
Process input more easily (gives a GTD toolbar for one-stop processing, linking and organizing) [Read more →]
Like the desktop quest, many GTD’ers are searching for the perfect GTD list manager app for the iPhone. The NY Times just posted a nice, simple article on organizing apps for the iPhone. While it’s certainly not an extensive look at the topic, nor will it cover all of what’s out there, or even your favorites (but I’m sure you’ll let us know!), it’s worth a read.
I’ve also written a few articles on my experience of GTD & iPhone over on my blog:
Stay tuned to GTD Times for more on Getting Things Done with the iPhone.
David Allen & his team sat down to record a podcast on the best practices of Collect.
In this 35 minute podcast they talk about:
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What does David Allen think of the “cocktail party” that is Twitter? In this short and sweet 5 minute podcast, David talks about his approach to Twitter and the world of social media. LISTEN NOW
“People ask me, is it [Twitter] a waste of time? Is going to a cocktail party a waste of time? Well, people go to cocktail parties, so if you feel guilty for going, you shouldn’t go to begin with. If you are going, why are you going?” – David Allen
The recording of the webinar David Allen did on GTD & PersonalBrain is now live. It’s about an hour long. David starts off with a good overview of the GTD Control + Perspective models, then moves on to talk about the PersonalBrain software. You’ll even get to see his own personal stuff (which most GTD’ers seem to go crazy for!) Check it out.
We received a tremendous response to the podcast from David Allen & his tech team on finding the “Perfect GTD List Manager.” Some of you were delighted that we continue to hold true to GTD being an approach that is “tool-agnostic,” applicable to nearly any tool you choose. On the other hand, some of you were pretty vocal that you were upset that we still didn’t tell you which tool to use. Fair enough! We know there is a balance to give you between theory and application, and some of you would like some more direction on this. So David and his team sat down for further conversation on The Perfect GTD List Manager. This time, David actually does reveal “the secret” and it may not be what you think…
In our new series called GTD Toolbox Tours, we’ll be highlighting and reviewing different tools, products, software and gear that can support your GTD implementation. We’ll cover list managers, labelers, pens, file folders and everything else that makes your GTD system hum like a Ferrari. This week we’re starting with a podcast with Eric Mack, the designer of a software tool called eProductivity for IBM Lotus Notes.
In our recent podcast on The Perfect GTD List Manager, we shared that one of the most common questions we get is, “Which tool should I use for my GTD lists?” Specifically, you want to know which tools David Allen uses! While the GTD approach is tool-agnostic, we have our personal favorites, as we know many of you do as well. eProductivity for IBM Lotus Notes is one of those, and is the tool David (and most of the staff at DavidCo) use to help manage our workflow. Even if you are not a Lotus Notes user, we think you’ll find value in hearing from Eric about what he learned would make the ultimate tool for David Allen to use.
In this podcast, Eric Mack (@EricMack) shares with Coach Kelly Forrister (@GTDCoachKelly) on some of the design philosophy and underlying features and principles that make eProductivity a tool David recommends. (Note: There’s a free trial and on the podcast Eric also offers a $100 off to the first 50 people that contact him by June 15.) Some of the features discussed on the podcast will make more sense if you check out some screenshots. LISTEN NOW
