Attention Lifehackers

[prog]

Any of y'all disciples / detractors of Getting Things Done?

Entering into another transitional state as I am, I have an opportunity to sniff at new productivity philosophies. This one seems to have a substantial amount of cred among full-time net-babblers, but not necessarily among anyone I know personally.

Still, I am starting to get the impression that my own "four pillars" system may be an attempt to implement it without actually having read any of the source material (but being vaguely aware of it for years).

Comments

[ts52.livejournal.com]

I have read the book, and found it all very interesting. I try to follow it, somewhat, but haven't got myself fully on the wagon.

You might want to watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo7vUdKTlhk
David Allen giving a talk at Google.

I also highly recommend the book. It's given me a lot of good ideas at least.

[prog.livejournal.com]

Excellent link, thanks.

I like how he says near the start of the talk that he himself falls off the GTD wagon all the time, but the system's engineered to be real easy to get back on any time.

[radtea.livejournal.com]

I read a bunch of his stuff on the Web when I was getting started and found the most useful thing about it was the way of categorizing things.

My major problem with it is that, like most process philosophies, there's way too much of it. But it's easy to pare it down to something reasonable.

me heart GTD

[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

Of course Marlin Mann's 43folders is the main place to satisfy all your GTD needs, especially for we Mac people. Lifehacker is also good. It takes a bit to get started and you really have to be diligent about keeping up with it. Everyone falls off the GTD wagon multiple times.

If you want to not go whole hog, try Simplified GTD.

[dougo.livejournal.com]

Get 'er done!!

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

Well, after being strongly encouraged by an at-the-time boyfriend that it was Simply Awesome (he had independently come up with a very similar system, but also really like GTD).

That was almost 4 years ago, and I have yet to implement any of the ideas. They -sound- good, but I already have a filing system and a calendar on which to write appointments. Maybe if my life gets more complicated I will revisit the book and try out those checklist thingies.

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

Yeah maybe I should complete that sentence:

So after being strongly encouraged, etc., to read the book, and hearing, "I'll buy you a copy if you promise to read it!" I finally said, "Alright already," and I did end up skimming it.

[mogaribue.livejournal.com]

After my todo list grew to 500+ I decided it wasn't really for me.

[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

Seriously? Even after paring down all the things you could accomplish in less than 2 minutes? (I'm assuming you weren't counting your Someday/Maybes in that 500...)

[mogaribue.livejournal.com]

Not counting shit in 2 minutes, counting someday/maybes. But this was all at at work. So someday/maybe is like 'we should really SHOULD upgrade this, but its not going to explode any time soon'.

Then again, I was the lead technical guy at a hospital and massively overworked and underpaid. GTD turned into my ticket queue from hell.