GTD - Getting Things Done
An approach to managing your work
GTD is an approach to managing tasks and projects by David Allen. It proposes a workflow of analysing incoming items, "actioning" them and reviewing work to determine next actions.
Ideas
- How to capture information and externalise ideas consuming your attention
- Iterating through a simple workflow in order to manage work
- Anything taking less than 2 minutes should be done immediately
- Where to store items not immediately actionable
Lists to support the workflow
- In - capture ideas and tasks here. A simple notebook will do.
- Next Actions - what to work on next
- Waiting for - a list of items you have delegated
- Projects - work items that will span many actions
- Someday / Maybe - ideas/tasks/projects you might want to do in the future
The 3 simple work actions
- Do it
- Delegate it - get someone else to do it
- Defer it - do it later
What to do with unactionable items?
- Trash - get rid of the item
- Someday / Maybe (Tickler file) - save it for later, review in the future
- Reference - knowledge for later retrieval
Links
GTD Book SummaryReferences
Getting Things Done - the art of stress free productivity by David Allen