GTD Basics
GTD has become quite popular among software groups. I’ve been hearing about it for years, but only recently actually looked into it. It was worthwhile, I should’ve read the book years ago.
To get started with GTD I read the original book by David Allen of course, along with a book called “Zen To Done”. It helped me to read them both.
Here’s a mindmap I created to help me understand the key concepts:
There is an abundance of GTD tools out there but I wanted to use something simple, cloud based, and familiar to me. So for a calendar I’m sticking with AirSet, Outlook (with Taglocity) and Gmail for mail, I’m making much better use of my notebook, and for lists/projects FogBugz. I’ve been experimenting with the free of version of FogBugz on Demand and it’s working out quite well.
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