David Allen - Getting Things Done
Tuesday August 30, 2005 – 9:23 pm
This is a great book on productivity, if you like that sort of thing. Ironically, the frickin’ thing took me at least a month to read, and another month or two to blog about. But to give myself a little credit, I did use that time well — I read the book, heard the audiobook version, and heard the audiobook of the sequel Ready For Anything. Am I actually getting more done though? Eh. Maybe… I am getting a lot better at writing things down at any rate, in a quest to achieve that elusive "mind like water". And it’s cleared away any guilt over certain fetishes I’ve had for years, like my infatuation with office supplies, and my love of BAGS of all shapes and sizes. It’s also gotten me into various GTD-related blogs like the excellent 43 Folders and Lifehacker. That can’t hurt. But I’m still looking for the perfect organizational method for all my lists and notes. Should I use a Circa system? Stick with Palm Desktop and sync it up with my Treo, or find yet another software solution? Or go the other direction and keep a Hipster PDA and/or a DIY Planner? Bigass text file? Argh. It’s all so much fun, just pure pornography for a gal like me, a compulsive system-tweaker who’d much rather play around with paper and software than actually do anything in Real Life, y’know. Seems like a lot of us GTD converts are prone to that.






