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September 1st, 2010 GTD Times Team - Staff ContributorsCategories | Bookshelf | David Allen
Getting Things Done is the 5th most highlighted book by Kindle users. Read what they are finding interesting.
Getting Things Done is the 5th most highlighted book by Kindle users. Read what they are finding interesting.
Google announced Priority Inbox today and the emails started flooding in asking, “Isn’t this anti-GTD?”
Google says that Priority Inbox “automatically identifies your important email and separates it out from everything else, so you can focus on what really matters.”
So, what does David Allen say about this kind of tool and the questions about something that sorts your inbox being “anti-GTD?”
Having email sorting/filtering would be anti-GTD if you use it to avoid decision-making, but not if it’s just for evaluating what kind of attention to put on something. Using colors for certain people’s emails in Lotus Notes (as I do) would also be “anti-GTD” if you never dealt with the non-colored ones. We’re not officially endorsing or recommending this. Just saying it’s something that you can make work. – David Allen
Q: How did you get involved in GTD and workflow coaching, and what motivates you to continue?
David Allen: When I started out doing management consulting, I was interested in thinking/processing models that worked universally to provide value and improve conditions for people and organizations. That, combined with my own awareness of the strategic and psychological value of clear space had me quickly develop a way to research and apply a set of best practices that invariably worked for the executives and entrepreneurs I worked with. I’m continually motivated to keep doing this work, because it never stops being quite transformational for anyone who applies the principles, and there are few things I’ve ever come across that provide as much reward for so little risk.
David Allen will be leading a “GTD Success Strategies” Webinar for our GTD Connect members next Friday, August 27th @ 10am PDT. He’ll share the keys for what makes GTD stick, including:
We’re giving away 5 seats to attend this Webinar to the first 5 people who reply with a comment (directly on GTD Times–not other feed sites) letting us know one thing you’ve implemented with GTD that has worked well for you.
Countless questions have been e-mailed to me asking for the best ways and tools to organize project thinking, or how to relate project pieces to each other and to all the other projects and their pieces. Ninety-nine percent of the time, my answer is: “Do the Weekly Review. If you do, it all works. If you don’t, nothing will work. – David Allen
“Many years of research have proven that the systems and tools for personal productivity that have the greatest value are relatively simple. Too many lines and boxes on organizing forms, for instance, are not only unnecessary — they create more pressure than they relieve. If you have to think too much every time you engage with a tool, then it isn’t serving you well.”
- David Allen
One of the most common questions we hear from GTDers is which list manager they should use. You’ve heard from us on this in loads of webinars, podcasts, articles and blog posts. We thought we would pass along a fellow GTDers comment to someone on our Forums, which we thought was great advice, especially for someone new to GTD:
Buy the new GTD Implementation Guide in PDF, and David’s first book. Read them carefully and use paper for a few weeks. You will become a far-better informed shopper for any digital solution for managing lists. - rdgeorge
David’s first book, Getting Things Done
Coach Kelly Forrister’s article on How to Choose a GTD System
Clear your head with the man himself…
This is an excerpt from a Webinar David did for GTD Connect, our online learning center.
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