David Allen's Blog, page 82

Member Exclusive: Project Planning Trigger List For Trips

I love the project planning trigger list. More than once it has led me to completing projects faster and better and sometimes has led to very exciting and creative ideas. Does anyone have any checklists or suggestions of things to check to create a more exciting trip experience for a few days out of...

Member Exclusive: I'm Tired Of Being 'the Effective' Employee

For the first time I had a coworker get upset because I've been too diligent in my follow-ups. This wasn't a case of calling twice a day and asking are you done. It was once a week dropping him an email asking if he had red-lined some as-built equipment specs. I've had other cases where coworkers...

Member Exclusive: Only Work, Errands, And Home Contexts?

I am looking for advice....particularly coaches from the David Allen Co. I have reduced my action contexts down to just three: work, errands and home. At work, I have all of the standard contexts available at all times -- computer, internet, phone, desk, etc. I am not that much of a road warrior ...

Member Exclusive: New Article From Dean Acheson Just Posted

Dean Acheson wrote an article for GTD Connect members on "The Mental Side of GTD." It's now posted in the Media Library for you to download.

FYI: All new articles to the Media Library are given a handy icon of either "New" or "Just Added" and will have that for approximately one month. That is...

GTD Times: Hop into the Twitter river tomorrow

In case you hadn't heard, I will be hosting a free, guided GTD "Tweekly Review" through Twitter tomorrow.

What: It will be a working Twitter session. I'll guide people through the 11-steps of the GTD Weekly Review through a series of Tweets. You'll want to be in front of your system (at least calendar, lists, email, inboxes etc.) to take action based on the Tweets.

When: Thursday, Aug 13, 9am - 10am PDT (Los Angeles time--find your local time)

How: Follow @GTDSpecialEvent or just launch this

Member Exclusive: Subprojects With Outlook

Hi everyone,

I've been using Outlook for my GTD system following the recommendations from the published whitepaper. After viewing Kelly's recent Outlook webinar, I had a question regarding the best way to track subprojects. Projects are tracked within Outlook tasks using the @Projects category,...

Member Exclusive: How Do You Enter 50,000 Feet?

I know life purpose is different from everyone.
What do you have to do to get to a place where you can spend time thinking about purpose?

Member Exclusive: GTD And Open University - Ideas / Best Practice Etc

Member Exclusive: The Mental Side Of GTD

Dean Acheson shares his wisdom about not confusing your mind with your stuff.

Member Exclusive: What Do You Do With Sent Email?

With GTD, there is a lot of documentation on what to do with an email message that comes into your Inbox, but I'm curious on what have people done to go back and capture sent/replied emails. Do you just leave your 'Sent' folder as is and search for emails when needed? Do you regularly go in and cu...