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Getting Things Done® - Inside OmniFocus. An Introduction to Getting Things Done® Developed by David Allen and published in a bestselling book of the same name, Getting Things Done® became a compelling system for dealing with anything.

Getting Things Done® - Inside OmniFocus

Tasks around the house, career goals, things to buy—anything you can turn into a command to follow or action to do. It was originally designed without a software component in mind—manila folders, actually! GTD® is a great system, but with OmniFocus, it can be even better. Capture. An Agile Trello Workflow That Keeps Tasks Flexible. Getting things done isn’t just about shipping a product, or checking off items on a list, or even about marking a project as “Done.”

An Agile Trello Workflow That Keeps Tasks Flexible

Getting things done is a process: it’s a way of thinking that involves planning, execution, iteration, and reflection. There are often setbacks. There are many moving pieces. Often, the most effective processes involve collaboration to ensure the best possible outcomes. In short, getting things done isn’t easy, and it’s almost never smooth. The agile workflow has long been an effective strategy for programmers attempting to ship code in a timely fashion. Lyndi Thompson is a demand marketer at Tableau, which produces interactive data visualization products focused on business intelligence. We can all use some new tips for maintaining an effective task flow. Keep “Done” At The Forefront, And Make Retrospectives Lyndi’s leftmost list is the “Done” column. Scrolling through accomplished tasks is a great feeling, but it’s not just about the warm fuzzies.

My Secret to Getting Things Done and Accomplishing Goals. Any fellow list-makers out there?

My Secret to Getting Things Done and Accomplishing Goals

If you love lists as much as I do, this may be your favorite post ever; it is packed with them! If you’re not a list maker, still bear with me because hopefully I can still give you some useful tools and ideas. Honestly, I’ve had a hard time writing this post. I keep asking myself, “But what if they think I’m ridiculous? What if it’s just too much? This post is another installment of my month-long series: 31 Days to an Intentional Life! So on Thursday, we made a list of goals, things that were priorities in our lives that we wanted to accomplish. Yearly At the beginning of each year I make goals in categories like faith, health, finances, home, etc., similar to how we did in last week’s goals post. Monthly After I have my goals in place, I want to start chipping away at them month by month. Looking at my goals sheet, I identify which specific areas or tasks I want to focus on for the month. Weekly. OmniFocus: ultieme productiviteit met de perfecte flow.

GTD in 15 minutes – A Pragmatic Guide to Getting Things Done. GTD—or “Getting things done”—is a framework for organizing and tracking your tasks and projects.

GTD in 15 minutes – A Pragmatic Guide to Getting Things Done

Its aim is a bit higher than just “getting things done”, though. (It should have been called “Getting things done in a much better way than just letting things happen, which often turns out not to be very cool at all”.) Its aim is to make you have 100% trust in a system for collecting tasks, ideas, and projects—both vague things like “invent greatest thing ever” and concrete things like “call Ada 25 August to discuss cheesecake recipe”. Everything! Sound like all other run-of-the-mill to-do list systems, you say? One of the basic assumptions of GTD is that you are dumb—or, rather, that your subconsciousness is quite dumb when it comes to thinking about things you should have done. Jessica Kerr put it perfectly: Pretend your brain is a white board. A great part of the “magic” is to convert both tasks and whims into physical and visible actions as you soon will see. Awesome! Agenda contexts. How to implement Getting Things Done with Trello - Guilherme Ferreira.

Today I want to tell you about one of my favorites productivity methodologies and about one of my favorite tools.

How to implement Getting Things Done with Trello - Guilherme Ferreira

Why both? Because they can work perfectly side by side. The methodology? Getting Things Done (GTD) by David Allen. GTD is about clearing your mind and put everything you need to do in one place first. The tool? "Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. I bet that you can find on the web a ton of good articles that explain the beauty of Trello and how GTD can boost your productivity, but that isn't the purpose of this post. Getting Things Done with Trello, Google Calendar, Evernote and Zapier. While you are in school you probably get along quite well with a normal calendar and checking your homework the day before its due.

Getting Things Done with Trello, Google Calendar, Evernote and Zapier

This worked for some of us and seemed also quite the standard when studying for an exam. But how do you track your work and tasks now? What is your solution? Most people I know have no real solution, it is a juggle between emails, projects in the back of your head and our calendar with more task. All of this causes a big mess and more often than not leads to unimaginable stress.

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