getting things done

TxtGTD Is A Text-Based System For Getting Things Done

4:00AM The How-To Geek | Reader BishKopt writes in with his ubergeeky system for getting things done with a simple text file format and a script that parses items into separate contexts. More »

Daily Record Of Events Makes Ubiquitous Capture A Snap

3:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows only: Daily Record of Events is a lightweight tool that creates an easy point of entry for inserting notes, musings and other capture-worthy snippets into your organisation system with a simple keyboard shortcut. More »

Brush Up On Getting Things Done With An Updated Flow Chart

6:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Since the release of his new book Making It All Work, David Allen has updated the original GTD workflow chart to include the new elements from the book. More »

Springpad Lets You Take Your Data Mobile

1:30AM Kevin Purdy | If you’re a fan of previously mentioned web-based life organiser Springpad, or you’re looking to start with it, the webapp’s notebooks just got easier to use with layouts optimised for mobile browsers More »

Re-Establish The Weekly Review Habit

8:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Reviewing where you are and where you’re going is a critical, but oft overlooked, part of personal development. Get in the habit of giving yourself a weekly review. More »

Quickly Prioritise Your Tasks By Urgency And Importance

2:00AM Adam Pash | Whether or not you’re an active disciple of David Allen’s popular productivity manifesto, Getting Things Done, you may be aware that GTD has a useful—but complex—processing diagram. If it’s too much for your tastes, the UI/NUI/UNI/NUNI system is a simple, easy-to-adopt alternative. More »

How Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Gets Things Done

2:30AM Kevin Purdy | He travels the world, dances on TV, tinkers with hardware—oh, and designed the Apple I & II personal computers. Steve Wozniak answers our questions and shares his hacker-ish means of getting things done. More »

Web-Based Tracks Keeps Your GTD System In Order

7:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows/Mac/Linux: Tracks is a flexible, web-based Getting Things Done server app that installs easily on your system and keeps your work flow accessible anywhere. More »

How Have You Modified The GTD System To Fit Your Needs?

6:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | For all the GTD fundamentalists, there are lots of tinkerers out there who have modified the system to suit their needs. If you’re among the latter, we want to hear how you’ve tweaked GTD. Over at the life management blog WHAKATE, they’ve put up a lengthy post about what is wrong with GTD. They illustrate their point by showing how there are many spin offs of GTD like Leo Babauta’s Zen to Done system, indicating the original GTD system is ripe for change and modification. Regardless of whether or not that is because the system is need of fixing, it does highlight how people have taken the core of GTD and modified it to fit their own needs. We want to hear from you, Lifehacker readers who have adopted GTD and then tweaked the system to fit. What have you done? What parts were worth keeping? What parts never quite fit into your workflow? Even if you read the book and took away nothing more from it than the importance of capturing all your thoughts with notecards or a pocket notebook, we want to hear from you! Photo by orangeacid. What is Wrong with GTD? [via Simple Productivity Blog] More »

Beginner’s Guide To Using Gmail Tasks With Your GTD System

9:00PM Kevin Purdy | Gmail can be way more than just a grocery list in your inbox. With the right system, and a few recent tweaks, Gmail Tasks can help someone new to Getting Things Done. Web Worker Daily gets down to nuts and bolts and re-configures the Gmail Labs feature in some really clever ways. You rename your current items list to “Inbox,” then add some key action-oriented lists: “Next actions,” “Deferred,” “Delegated,” and “Someday/maybe,” and then use notes and the “Inbox” list as capture tools. The big drawback to this system, for GTD purists at least, is the lack of a context tagging tool. That’s find for the writer, who only uses this GTD system for work-related material, not as a life processing methodology. But it’s a great tool for anyone who doesn’t need the big-block engine of a total organising system, or who just wants a way to act on what they saw in their email. Hit the link, of course, for a fuller walk-through and explanation. Getting Things Done with Gmail Tasks [WebWorkerDaily] More »