Category Archives: Getting Things Done

Some Help for Your GTD 50,000 Foot Reviews

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Bruce Keener

In yesterday’s post, I noted that this is an excellent time of year to do your GTD 50,000 foot review. Today I realized it might be helpful for me to give you a tool to help you do such a … Continue reading →

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Understanding Your Big Picture and Living It

Posted on December 22, 2009 by Bruce Keener

My interest in sharing time management techniques and principles began several years ago with my writing of The Big Picture. This article described my search for meaning after my wife died, and I wrote it to emphasize that life is … Continue reading →

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Master GTD with OmniFocus [Mac, iPhone, Touch]

Posted on October 15, 2009 by Bruce Keener

Although my primary computer for the past 3 years has been an iMac, I have tried to stick with GTD tools that also work on Windows. The tool I predominately used was Toodledo. However, I recently realized that I spend … Continue reading →

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Around the Web, 13 October 2009

Posted on October 13, 2009 by Bruce Keener

Kelly Forrister of David Allen’s staff is going to be leading a guided mindsweep this upcoming Friday, 16 October 2009 at 9am PST. This sounds very interesting, and I will be listening in. (I will just follow the tweets from … Continue reading →

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Around the Web, 27 Sep 2009

Posted on September 28, 2009 by Bruce Keener

If you use the popular Evernote application, you’ll want to check out Ruud Hein’s description of how he implements GTD with Evernote. An excellent write-up. A while back I did a brief review of TaskPaper, a new Mac application for … Continue reading →

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David Allen Suggests We Take a Fresh Look [GTD]

Posted on August 25, 2009 by Bruce Keener

A few days ago, David Allen tweeted Dump all your previously-assumed projects & actions. Create a fresh list. What’s now current & real? At first I thought this was a nutty suggestion, and that David was just thinking out loud … Continue reading →

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Does Obama Really Use GTD?

Posted on August 7, 2009 by Bruce Keener

I’ve seen a lot of links on Twitter implying that President Obama uses David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) system. The tweets have come from folks like Tim O’Reilly, David Allen, Steve Rubel, and others, and reference a link to … Continue reading →

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TaskPaper: A Simple To-Do App for Macs

Posted on July 23, 2009 by Bruce Keener

In continuing my experimentation with some of the newer GTD tools, I started tinkering with TaskPaper a few days ago. While the app is built to run only on Macs, another developer provides a similar product, TodoPaper, for Windows. I … Continue reading →

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GTD and Covey Implementation via “Things” [Mac, iPhone]

Posted on July 14, 2009 by Bruce Keener

For the past year, I have been implementing the GTD system using Google Calendar and Toodledo (for tasks), while using Appigo’s Todo on my Touch/iPhone. I liked these tools because of their simplicity and compatibility with GTD methods, and because … Continue reading →

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Making Time to THINK

Posted on July 12, 2009 by Bruce Keener

In a comment on one of my recent posts, John noted the following: I’ve been on and off with GTD and Covey many many times through out the years. I could never turn it into a habit and kept searching … Continue reading →

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