Getting Started with Getting Things Done
I’ve always been a compulsive list maker. But, at some point I realized that all the to-do lists, calendars, daily reminders, post-it notes, etc. just weren’t cutting it. The by product of not having a system was that, in spite of all the lists and effort, I wasn’t operating any more efficiently than if I simply stopped wasting paper, time, disk space, and mental energy creating the list in the first place. I was an organizational mess of lost papers, lost ideas, clutter, and – most importantly – lost time.
A friend pointed me toward 43Folders, Merlin Mann’s website containing, among other things, his thoughts and experience using the David Allen’s Getting Things Done methodology. After poking around 43Folders, and a few other sites, I sensed there was something compelling about this methodology and I bought the book. read more…
