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GTD Times: New GTD Workflow Diagram

For years, the GTD Workflow diagram has been the ultimate "trail guide" for navigating through the collect>process>organize stages of GTD.  Over the past two years, David Allen has been working with the terrific design team at xplane to take his vision (his original sketch is pictured right) and expand it into a rich map that also now includes decision making, horizons of focus and more.

Some people got a sneak preview of it at the GTD Summit in March, and a few bootleg copies of it are floatin

Member Exclusive: Next Action Or Project For Delegated Thing

I am not sure how to process items that are next actions that may or may not become a project - esp if the next action is an agenda item for someone and based on the result it may become a project or not. For example:
I would like someone that reports to me (who NEEDS GTD but isn't getting it yet) ...

Member Exclusive: Weird Request - Capture On A Bicycle

One of my favorite things to do for relaxation and recreation is riding my bike. My mind tends to flow pretty freely when I am riding and it ends up being one of my most creative places. Since I have a lot of creative ideas, practicing GTD can be tough because I don't have a way to capture them.

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Member Exclusive: GTD-esque Workshop/basement/tool Sheds Out There? Pics Would Be Great

Member Exclusive: Some Cool Books...

I love to read and am often asked for some cool books I recommend - so here they are:

Getting Things Done - David Allen
Ready For Anything - David Allen
Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Coaching - James Flaherty
Chasing Daylight - Eugene O'Kelly
Enlightened Leadership - Ed Oakley, Doug Kr...

Member Exclusive: Weekly Review Motivation Tips

Anyone have any tips and tricks for weekly review motivation? What I mean is really really loving your weekly review? How do you love it?

Member Exclusive: Happy Birthday, Kelly!

OK, on my second watching of the Outlook webinar, I THINK I picked up that Kelly is out of town celebrating her birthday!

Happy birthday, Kelly!

Member Exclusive: Setting Up Your Own GTD Server - Macs Only

One of the things that I've struggled with is downsizing the number in-boxes I have while increasing the amount of collecting I do. I think I finally hit the sweet spot with getting information into my GTD system for processing during my weekly review using OmniFocus. I use OmniFocus as my task/pr...

Member Exclusive: Outlook Webinar Replay Is Now Posted!

The GTD & Outlook webinar I did this afternoon is now posted in the webinars box on the home page of Connect.

Currently, due to the size (over 80mb) and format (.wmv) these are not download-able or podcasted. This one also has a ton of visuals for things I showed in Outlook, so it won't make mu...

Member Exclusive: Where Do You Get The Most New Input?

Where do you get the most new input these days? Or, in GTD terms, what's your biggest source of collection?