Write or Die by Dr Wicked. The Best Android Apps for Getting Things Done. Doomi. A to do list application. Todo.txt Command Line Interface - Task tracking for CLI lovers. Tom's Planner Is an Impressive, Intuitive Project Scheduling Too. Taskbarn - Free Web-Based Project Management Tools.
Mind Map. Five Best To-Do List Managers. Project Management. Nirvana › GTD Software for Getting Things Done, Web 2.0 Style. FogBugz - Bug & Issue Tracking, Project Management, Help Desk Software. The Hit List | Potion Factory. HiTask - free online task management. Getting Things Done. Personal productivity system and 2001 book The GTD method rests on the idea of moving all items of interest, relevant information, issues, tasks and projects out of one's mind by recording them externally and then breaking them into actionable work items with known time limits. [b][c] This allows one's attention to focus on taking action on each task listed in an external record, instead of recalling them intuitively.[5] First published in 2001,[4] a revised edition of the book was released in 2015 to reflect the changes in information technology during the preceding decade.[1] Themes[edit] Allen first demonstrates stress reduction from the method with the following exercise, centered on a task that has an unclear outcome or whose next action is not defined.
The most annoying, distracting, or interesting task is chosen, and defined as an "incomplete". An inboxA trash canA filing system for reference materialSeveral lists (detailed below)A calendar (either a paper-based or digital calendar) The Big Picture. Hipster PDA. Although it began as a joke, or perhaps a statement about technology fetishism, the Hipster PDA has rapidly gained popularity with serious users,[4] with hundreds posting pictures of their customized hPDAs on photo sharing sites and exchanging tips on Internet mailing lists.
Advocates of the hPDA claim that it is a cheap, lightweight, freeform organizer[5] that doesn't need batteries and is unlikely to be stolen. Enthusiasts also design and share index-card-size printable templates for storing contacts, to-do lists, calendars, notes, project plans, and so on. A Hipster Nano PDA utilizes business cards with blank backs and one that has a calendar on the back. 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. (It probably takes a backseat only to the Atkins Diet in terms of the number of enthusiastic evangelists: sorry about that.) Like I did the other day with Quicksilver, I wanted to provide a gentle, geek-centric introduction to Getting Things Done, so that you can think about whether it might be right for you. It also gives you time to pick up your own copy of the book and get a feel for how David’s system works. So what next? Yes. Another Backup Lecture. Daring Fireball: An Ode to DiskWarrior, SuperDuper, and Dropbox Hard drives are fragile. Read as much as you can bear to about how they work, how incredibly precisely they must operate in order to cram so many bits onto such small disks. It’s a miracle to me that they work at all. Every hard drive in the world will eventually fail.
Assume that yours are all on the cusp of failure at all times. It’s good to be spooked about how long your hard drives will last. John's article, advice, and success story about doing smart backup is exactly the reminder that a lot of people need to hear right this second. Worst of all, every stupid cliche about backup that currently makes you roll your eyes in exasperation will be visited upon you tenfold if you're not using some flavor of the anal-retentive system nerds like John and I live by.
The Holy Trinity Seriously: If it's not automated, it's not a real backup. Doing any one of these things by itself or in tandem produces "a copy. " The Next Layer Go.