Getting Things Done (GTD): The Discovery
To take a short break from my recent technology research and to indulge my topic A.D.D., I spend the evening reading about ‘Getting Things Done’ (GTD). I forward an article to someone earlier this week from Lifehacker, and they asked me “Do I GTD?”. My first thought was “huh?”. Then I asked them what GTD was.
I never made the connection between Lifehacker and a process called GTD. It instantly made sense that they have an obsession with task lists in featured articles. I have been reading the site for a couple of months by ‘cherry picking’ articles from the RSS feed I have on my iGoogle home page. After I read a couple of articles about GTD all the dots connected. Lifehacker is all about getting things done. Talk about not seeing the forest through the trees.
So what is GTD? GTD is a workflow method for organizing task, projects, priorities, and life. It is based on a book by David Allen called, appropriately, ‘Getting Things Done (GTD)’. Better than me rattling on about the process let me offer some links that I found useful:
Wikipedia’s entry on GTD
A Primer on Getting Things Done
Huge List of GTD & Productivity Sites/Blog
Lifehacker
A Year of Getting Things Done: Part 1, The Good Stuff
I plan on giving this a spin to see how it effects my productivity and focus.
