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The Secret Weapon: A No BS Approach to Productivity. I’ve always known the folks behind Brain Toniq were into getting things done, but I had no idea that they were going to build a secret weapon to create a “no BS” approach to do so.

The Secret Weapon: A No BS Approach to Productivity

But they have, and it’s a pretty compelling system. Here’s what The Secret Weapon is, as described by its creators: The Secret Weapon is a free organizational methodology for both professional and personal aspects of life that re-organizes emails, ideas, and every to-do big and small into one system that stays synchronized across a person’s computers as well as their smart phones. The power behind The Secret Weapon comes from the way it takes the best aspects of David Allen’s popular GTD methodology and bringing them together with what is perhaps the most popular productivity application in the world, Evernote.

It’s really quite brilliant because Evernote is one of the best tools for capturing ideas, notes and the like because of its ubiquity. Well, I’m going to put that theory to the test. ProTip: Mailbox + Evernote + IFTTT. Today I’m going to show you a quick trick using a combination of apps and online tools for your iPhone or iPad.

ProTip: Mailbox + Evernote + IFTTT

The end result is sending your emails to Evernote with one swipe. If your wondering why someone would do that, let me give you a little introduction into The Secret Weapon. The Secret Weapon. Referrals - Dropbox.

Theory

Tools. Tiddlyspot. TiddlyWiki. A standard edit dialog on a tiddler TiddlyWiki is an open-source single page application wiki.

TiddlyWiki

A single HTML file contains CSS, JavaScript, and the content. The content is divided into a series of components, or Tiddlers. Getting Things Done® (GTD®) Getting Things Done (GTD) is a method for organizing tasks so that you can focus your entire energy and creativity on completing those tasks in a stress free manner.

Getting Things Done® (GTD®)

This method was developed by David Allen in his book, Getting Things Done. The main principle of GTD is that recording your tasks in a reliable way - using a system that you trust - will free your mind from trying to remember and prioritize stuff. This recaptured mental energy can be put towards being more productive and efficient. Collection The first step to GTD is collecting all of the information that is bouncing around in your head by getting it out of your mind. If you can express your ideas in words and record them outside of your head, your mind will have permission to no longer waste energy trying to remember them. Toodledo is the perfect collection bucket for this type of information. A Primer on Getting Things Done. Getting Things Done. This page is part of a bigger context called Scheduling and self-management System.

Getting Things Done

Following pages are considered being part of this context: GTD (Getting Things Done) (current page)The Schedule of Markus Gattol which links to The index of Markus's to-the-net-published schedule dataThe PIM (Personal Information Manager) system existing of Why I started the GTD Approach Well, without proof, it is my opinion that at least 80% of us all are just like the fellow bellow... 80% or more of us are just reacting (instead of being on the active end, setting the tone, being pro-active) to their environments. The Mindjet Blog - Part 3. A Handy Add-on for the GTD Mappers To all the GTDer’s (a.k.a.

The Mindjet Blog - Part 3

Getting Things Done) out there I have some great news to share with you. We know that many followers of the GTD plan use visual thinking, especially MindManager, to keep their lives productive. What some of you might not know is that there is another fantastic tool that you can… Read Full Article Happy Holidays: Top 10 Mindjet Blog Posts for 2009. Getting Things Done. Unix Crosses Over Productivity I try to keep my approach to productivity and life as simple as possible.

Getting Things Done

I do not like a bunch of clutter in my personal or work life. I am not sure where this philosophy stems from, I am sure childhood, so far it has served me well. Massive GTD Resource List. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity Summary at WikiSummaries, free book summaries. GTD® and Getting Things Done® are the registered trademarks of David Allen Company.

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity Summary at WikiSummaries, free book summaries

For more than 20 years, David Allen has been a management consultant and executive coach. Allen’s first book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, published in 2001, became a National Bestseller. Allen has been called a personal productivity guru whose work has been featured in Fast Company, Fortune, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications. Getting Things Done. The GTD method rests on the idea of moving planned tasks and projects out of the mind by recording them externally and then breaking them into actionable work items.

Getting Things Done

This allows attention to be focused on taking action on tasks, instead of recalling them.[2] First published in 2001, a revised edition of the book was released in 2015 to reflect the changes in information technology during the preceding decade. Themes[edit] GTD Toolbox: 100+ Resources for Getting Things Done. Getting Things Done, also abbreviated as GTD, is a popular time management productivity method created by David Allen.

GTD Toolbox: 100+ Resources for Getting Things Done

The method is just as popular today as it was back in 2007 when we ran our GTD Ninja post featuring more than 50 apps to help you be more productive and organized. But there are a host of new applications out there to help you be even more productive this year. Below are more than 100 of them. What are your favorite GTD tools? Tell us more about them in the comments. Complete Solutions. 12 Free Android Apps to Help Get Things Done (Part 1) With a raft of new devices scheduled to join the lonely T-Mobile G1 in Google’s lineup, the Android operating system looks like it’s not only going to be around for a while but may well give its fellows smartphones from Apple, Blackberry, and Palm a run for their money.

With its Linux-derived core and slick user interface, the Android system is proving to be very adaptable – it will even be available on netbooks pretty soon. I’ve had a chance to play with a 1 for the last few weeks, and more importantly to try out some of the 5,000 apps currently available on the Market, Google’s built-in alternative to the iTunes App Store. Out of this amazing variety of available applications, I’ve found a good dozen free ones that would be perfect for Lifehack’s readers – apps that can help you stay organized, stay effective, and stay productive no matter where you find yourself. In the interest of space, I’ll post this list over two days: six now, six later, presented in no particular order. 1. 2. Getting started with "Getting Things Done".

This article was originally posted during the first week of 43 Folders' existence, and, pound for pound, it remains our most popular page on the site. Please be sure to also visit related pages, browse our GTD topic area, plus, of course you can search on GTD across our family of sites. I’ll be talking a lot here in coming weeks about Getting Things Done, a book by David Allen whose apt subtitle is “The Art of Stress-Free Productivity.”

You’ve probably heard about it around the Global Interweb or have been buttonholed by somebody in your office who swears by GTD. Getting Things Done GTD software, task manager, and to-do list, and project management. 12 Lists That Help You Get Things Done. At the center of just about every personal productivity system are lists – GTD has it’s context lists, Pomodoro has it’s action inventory and daily to-do lists, todoodlist has, well, the todoodlist, and so on. But there are a lot of different kinds of lists besides your task or to-do list that can help you be more productive. Lists in general are powerful tools – open-ended, constantly growing, and effective at extending our memories past the 7 or so things we can keep on our mind at any given time.

Some of the lists that can make you more productive or otherwise make life easier include: Task lists: Naturally, the most obvious is the task list, a simple list of things you have to do. 9 Reasons Why Getting Things Done Sucks! GTD Cheatsheet: The Workflow. This is the first part in a refresher series on the basics of Getting Things Done. Ok, I’m going to jump right in. Getting Things Done (or GTD) is a system to free your mind of it’s resources and become more organized in the process. In short: it’s a way to become more productive and stress free, in one fell swoop.

It’s a beautiful thing, really. The book deals mainly with the processes to the GTD system which include clearing your mind (and living space) of useless clutter, organizing it, and storing it in appropriate places, and reviewing it on a consistent basis. The Workflow The workflow is a very powerful thing. Once you see something that needs to be organized, you ask the question What is it? The Best Android GTD (Getting Things Done) App is: [Droid vs. Droid]

Yes, I am officially the token GTD guy at Androinica. The Best Android Apps for Getting Things Done.