Posts Tagged ‘gtd’

19 Free GTD Apps for Windows, Mac & Linux

There are plenty of great, free Getting Things Done apps out there. If you’re a fan of David Allen’s productivity system but can’t do paper and don’t have the cash for a commercial program, this is the collection of applications for you.

The following is a list of nineteen free GTD apps for Windows, the Mac and Linux. Excuse me if I cheat by adding a web app here and there.
iGTD
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July 30 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: apps, freeware, gtd | 19 comments»

10 Productivity Myths That Hold You Back

What are the myths and mistaken beliefs that are preventing you from being more productive in both your work life and your personal life? How are you actively undermining your efforts to pull it all together?

Yeah, I mean you.

The sad fact is that the beliefs that we hold about productivity and organization often prevent us from doing and being everything we want to do and be in our lives. While… » Continue

July 28 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: failure, gtd, myth, Productivity, success, system | 26 comments»

Back to Basics: Your Calendar

One of the first things people do when they make the decision to “get organized” is buy some kind of calendar. It might be a dayplanner, a desktop “blotter-pad” calendar, a Palm or Blackberry, or some other kind of device or system they can schedule all their appointments and obligations in.

Most of us instinctively understand that the key to good time management is knowing where to be and what to… » Continue

July 25 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: back-to-basics, calendar, gtd, outlook, schedule | 20 comments»

Back to Basics: Your Task List

Everyone makes a task list (or “todo list”) at least now and again. Usually, we wait until we’re overwhelmed with stuff to do, and then we’ll sit down and list everything we need to get done in the next day or two. Then, one by one, we go through the items on our list, do them, and cross them off.

We do this because it feels better when we do. One… » Continue

July 18 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: back-to-basics, gtd, list, task, todo | 29 comments»

Back to Basics: Processing

In my first installment of “Back to Basics”, I discussed the importance of your inbox – a single place for collecting all of your inputs for processing. In this installment, we’ll discuss the processing itself – how to turn inputs into action.

In principle, processing is simple. All it means is making a decision about what to do with every piece of information that enters your… » Continue

June 27 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: back-to-basics, decision-making, gtd, processing | 5 comments»

Back to Basics: Your Inbox

This is the first post in an ongoing series I’m calling “back to Basics”, a “refresher course” in personal productivity. For people just starting to grapple with issues of productivity, it will serve as an introduction to the basic concepts that underlie much of what we write here at Lifehack. For more advanced readers, it will serve as a reminder of what you thought you were setting out to do… » Continue

June 20 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: back-to-basics, capture, collection, gtd, inbox | 19 comments»

Lifehack Live for June 9: Danny Bader of the David Allen Co.

In this week’s episode of Lifehack Live, I spoke with Danny Bader, a coach and presenter at the David Allen Company about coaching, GTD, staying organized, and lots more.

Thanks for listening.

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June 9 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: david_allen, gtd, Podcast | 1 comment»

Join Me at 10am PST for Lifehack Live! Today: Danny Bader of the David Allen Company

Join me live for today’s recording of Lifehack Live at 10am PST. Visit the site and listen to the live stream, and call in during the show with your own questions and comments.

Today, I’ll be speaking with Danny Bader, a productivity coach and presenter at the David Allen Company. We’ll be talking about GTD: eresistances to it, introducing the people around you to it, and moving… » Continue

June 5 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: gtd, Podcast | no comments»

Boredom Can Be Good For You

Being bored will help you be better at what you do

There are a great many books, web sites, and training courses today more or less dedicated to the idea that being bored is a major sin, for which the only cure is to find ways to be busy and productive every waking moment. People who follow this idea are constantly on-the-go — any feelings of boredom quickly smothered with… » Continue

June 1 2008 | By Adrian | Tagged: active, attention-span, boredom, effectiveness, gtd, personal growth, thinking | 12 comments»

How to Improve Your Memory

Our memory is one of the integral parts of day-to-day human life. We’re using it every moment, consciously or not, as we perceive the world and interpret it based on our memories and experiences, or as we look for the car keys, trying to recall where, exactly, was the last place they were seen?

It’s no small wonder that this part of our brain would fall prey to such… » Continue

April 21 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: diet, exercise, gtd, meditation, memory, minimalism, mnemonics | 6 comments»

Are You Lifehacking Too Much?

Nick Cernis of Put Things Off recently declared that productivity is dead. He said that “our obsession with ‘productivity’ is getting in the way of our lives.” Nick started out by saying that the productivity industry is out of control, and that it’s making us less efficient, not more. I agree with Nick, and I can tell you why the productivity industry is like that: it’s about… » Continue

April 14 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: action, gtd, implementation, information, motivation, systems | 9 comments»

Working in Project Space

One of the givens in David Allen’s Getting Things Done is that you can’t “do” a project. Instead, Allen recommends you break projects down into immediate “next actions”, discrete doable chunks that can be “cranked through” with a minimum of effort.

While this approach works pretty well for a lot of tasks, it falls short for a lot of creative people for whom the “meat” of their work cannot… » Continue

April 14 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: creativity, distraction, gtd, procrastination, Productivity | 16 comments»

Getting Green Done

With Earth Hour behind us and Earth Day on the way, we thought April would be a good month for Lifehack.org to think Green. In the weeks ahead, you can expect to see posts reflecting all manner of perspectives on how to “Green up” your work and life.

Nowadays, you can hardly swing a free-range cat without hitting someone making Green claims. Products tout their 35% post-consumer-waste packaging and their… » Continue

April 2 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: environment, green, gtd, planning, Productivity, sustainability | 14 comments»

5 Ways to get out of faffing mode

Faffing - The art of doing something without achieving anything”
Faffing affects all of us, in all areas of life and it means doing something without achieving an outcome. It affects business, personal life, writing, internet surfing, and domestic life.

To give you an example: As I am writing an article I am aware that I have to do a bit of stumbling in order to… » Continue

April 2 2008 | By Steven | Tagged: faffing, gtd, procrastination, Productivity | 21 comments»

What’s Missing in Productivity Today?

This month, we asked Lifehack.org contributors — and you, our readers — to think about the things that are missing in today’s productivity systems. Not only the areas where the "Big Name" systems fall short, but the gaps in our own systems, the places where we as individuals fall down.

The Lifehack.org community rose to the challenge, offering a variety of thought-provoking posts and comments that… » Continue

March 28 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: advice, contact-management, failure, gtd, information management, perfectionism, Productivity, software, time-management, tips | 7 comments»