There is a great post over at Lifehack.org about using Gmail and Gcal to take charge of your daily tasks and to do lists.

There are a million tools out there to keep track of your tasks, your appointments, your emails and reminders. But let’s face it — each of them have their drawbacks, and finding the right combination can be an ongoing quest.

Many people also love Gmail and Gcal as two of their online tools of choice – they’re simple tools that get the job done fast, wherever and whenever you need them. If you count yourself among this group, here’s a guide for using the Gmail/Gcal combination as your online information center.

Follow THIS LINK in order to check out the article. Well worth a read, especially if you use, or are thinking to use the Google applications as your chosen method to implement a GTD system.

After reading the great blog entry titled “How to Make a GTD System for Around $20” over at Cranking Widgets, I decided to add a UK spin to this theme as I am based in the UK and I have quite a few UK based readers.

The Cranking Widgets blog entry takes you through building a complete GTD system for a super cheap $20. The core component is obviously the GTD Book from David Allen but after that they take you through other essential items and provide online links of where to get them.

This is great if you are in the US, but how about our UK readers? Well, with the conversion rate between the UKP and USD so strong, in the UKP favor, I am trying to do the same as Cranking Widgets, but for a measly £10. This works out at around $19 for a GTD system.

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Just caught this podcast via 43Folders.com.

For those of you who are not using Mac’s, or those of you who use Mac’s and don’t watch MacBreak, you may not be familiar with Leo Laporte. Leo hosts Mac Break that also features the GTD Guru, Merlin Mann.

Leo also has a weekly Podcast called the Tech Guy.  Well, issue 339 of the Tech Guy Podcast has Leo and Merlin Mann explaining the basics of Getting Things Done.

The Podcast can be downloaded direct here.

This is quite a long podcast and the section with Merlin Mann and Leo Laporte talking about GTD is 00:59:30 to about 1:08:45. Check it out!

Just returned back after three days in Amsterdam on an affiliate marketing event and also a weeks holiday to Northumberland, UK. Back to it with the GTD posts now.

Anyway, quickly, before my next post on my GTD journey I have found a link to a “Getting Things Done in 60 Seconds”, which is a brief overview of the GTD methodology from David Allen.

If you’re like most educated technical types, you’ve heard of David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” (GTD) productivity concepts, but don’t use them.

And I think I know why: 1) you’re too busy to study a whole book on productivity; 2) it might not work for you anyway; and 3) deep down you really don’t want to change how you work.

Am I right?

I’ll make a deal with you. I’ll spend the next 60 seconds telling you how to radically boost your productivity. In exchange, you have to promise to buy the book “Getting Things Done,” if it works for you. I’m not here to steal from David Allen, but to introduce him to you. The concepts below were inspired by GTD, and might be considered blaspheme by GTD fundamentalists — they’re what I started doing after I read two of his books, and they work for me.

The article can be read by following this link.

I know a lot of GTD’ers and readers of my blog are Mac users so I thought I would share this little gem with you all.

A friend gave me a great tip that resulted in myfreeing up 4.4 GB of precious hard disk space, purely by removing the unused language files on my MacBook Pro.

Here is what you need to do in order to get this saving..

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