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| posted at 10:33:23 By Flipping Heck! | Posted In GTD/Productivity |
Getting Things Done has been developed by David Allen (http://www.davidco.com/) as "A Work-Life Management System... that transforms personal overwhelm and overload into an integrated system of stress-free productivity".
Sounds a bit pompous doesn't it? Put in my terms basically what it does is it allows me to organise and process projects/tasks in a set manner, it's helped me to remember to do things, reply to emails/letters a lot faster than normal and remember where I've put things.
The GTD process is split into three basic categories; capture, define and organise. When you first start off using the GTD method you have to go through everything (and I mean everything) and place it in your "Inbox", from there you sort through it one item at a time and decide on the "next action".
Capture
To capture the information you literally bung it all in an in-tray or big box, this will then be the future repository for all further captured items.
Define
Once an Item has been captured you need to define what it is and what you're going to do with it, this is the "next action".
The next action will depend on the item and whether you need to use it or not.
The next action could be:
- Do it immediately if it'll take less that 2 minutes
- Delegate it
- Defer it
Even if there's no obvious "next action" there....
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