Archive for the ‘productivity’ Category

How do you know when you’re done?

Thursday, October 21st, 2004

The first thing you're supposed to do when you start the GTD system is to collect all the 'open loops' in your life - everything at work, at home, and anywhere in between that you have to do; everything that occupies any space in your mind at all. The collection ...

Staying on the wagon

Monday, October 18th, 2004

So, I've talked a little about some of the nifty parts of the GTD system, and I've pointed to at least one of the better sites dealing with it out there. If you're anything like me, though, you'll have run out and jumped into this with both feet - spending ...

The Waiting List

Monday, October 11th, 2004

So, to continue with the Greatest Hits of GTD series (earlier, we talked about context-specified lists - today I'm looking at the Waiting List.

Context is King

Tuesday, October 5th, 2004

So I thought it might be interesting to do a greatest-hits of the techniques introduced in the GTD system, with an eye towards describing methods that could be adopted independently of the rest of the practices. To kick off this series, I'm going to start with the idea of grouping ...

Answers? We have answers!

Tuesday, October 5th, 2004

Mike's asked (among other things - answers to which can be found in the comments here) how Gmail fits into the GTD system. Since I was already planning on doing another post on GTD, I figured I'd go answer this question with just a link: 43 Folders talked about just ...