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Member Exclusive: Blink

It's been out for four years, but I just finished Malcolm Gladwell's Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. Not that it takes four years to get through -- it's actually a short, fast read. There's valuable advice about how and when to rely on instinct to make quick decisions that turn out ...

Member Exclusive: It All Began With A New Way Of Thinking!

A while back I received a parcel from DavidCo and along with the order was a Productivity Principle postcard. It features an excellent picture of guys sneaking a peek over a fence at an early biplane taking off with the tag line "It all began with a new way of thinking", I've had this picture sittin...

Member Exclusive: Family Against GTD

Has anyone had any experiences with family opposed to GTD?

Member Exclusive: Avid Readers

I read an awful lot...both for business and pleasure. Getting an Amazon Kindle has about tripled my reading speed so I always like to have a nice long list of books to read.

I found a magazine I'd like to recommend: Bookmarks You can find out about it at www.bookmarksmagazine.com. I think you...

GTD Times: GTD & OmniFocus

I recently interviewed Ken Case, CEO for OmniGroup, about the ever popular OmniFocus for Mac.  You'll hear about the history of OmniGroup, what their company culture is like today, what OmniFocus does for a GTD'er, and more.  Here's an excerpt:   <!--[endif:]-->

Ken Case: The big thing that we tried to do as we were designing the application is really think about the parts of the GTD workflow that we could address, and automate those, and then maybe not try to touch the parts that didn't make as much sense. Fo

Podcast: Kelly Forrister - GTD and OmniFocus

Kelly Forrister interviews Ken Case of OmniGroup about the popular OmniFocus application for Mac. You'll hear about the history of OmniGroup, what their company culture is like today, what OmniFocus does for a GTD'er, and more. Click here to listen now or click here to download. (mp3, 20:00). For access to all previous podcasts, check out our complete podcast feed. <!-- -->

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Member Exclusive: GTD & OmniFocus

Kelly Forrister interviews Ken Case, the CEO of OmniGroup. Ken shares about OmniFocus, a popular application for GTD'ers on Mac.

Member Exclusive: New Feature Suggestions For GTD IPhone App

Hello Everyone,

NetCentrics is exploring the idea of potentially creating a GTD iPhone application that works with the GTD Outlook Add-In. Due to some constraints, all of the features that are found in the current GTD Outlook Add-In can not be implemented within Apple's iPhone OS. Given that if...

Member Exclusive: GTD Finance Management Trick I Use On A Blackberry

I keep a context tied to a category on my blackberry called !home - checkbook(! used instead of @ to move it to the top of my context lists)

Whenever I buy anything using a check or debit card I enter the information as a task in the category !home - checkbook for example if I went to Denny's tod...

Member Exclusive: Delegating

Hello GTD Connect members, I've come to the conclusion over the last few weekly reviews that I am a lousy delegator. I feel like a capture what has been delegated effectively in my waiting for list but the results never seem to be what I want them to be or the projects come back to me half baked. ...