Productivity FAQ
As part of my ProductivityImprovement project, I'm currently iteratively implementing David Allen's Getting Things Done (GTD) system, altering and tuning it in ways that seem to work better for me. Many of the alterations are different enough to be considered a system of their own and perhaps some day I'll get around to documenting them.
Productivity is a current topic among a lot of my friends and colleagues and thus many of the following topics come up often.
favorite GTD app
Q: What is your favorite GTD application?
A: My favorite GTD app is BBEdit. I also use the built-in text editor on my BlackBerry 8700 for collecting (garbage.txt) and sometimes processing into next actions (next-actions.txt) when away from my laptop.
recommended GTD app
Q: What GTD application do you recommend?
A: I recommend you use whatever plain text editor you are most proficient with.
a list
Q: So no fancy GTD program, just make a list?
A: No, not a list, but multiple lists with different rules: to-do-inbox.txt, next-actions.txt, waiting-for.txt, someday-maybe.txt - that's the key to getting started with GTD. If you just maintain one to-do list (even if you rewrite/scrub it every day), you are not doing GTD.
email outage
Q: How do you handle email outages?
A: Your email is not your inbox. Email allows anyone to hijack your attention. Treat Email as a project at the most, perhaps maybe just as a reference. See EmailHandling for more.
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