Getting Things Done in Sixty Seconds!
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.
Got a Mac – Free up some disk space
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..
Thinking Rock – GTD Application
Just seen a post about this application at LifeHacker.
Thinking Rock is a cross platform GTD Application for collecting and processing your thoughts using the GTD Methodology.
Thinking Rock allows you to collect your thoughts and process them into actions, projects, information or future possibilities. Actions can be done by you, delegated to someone else or scheduled for a particular date. Projects can be organised with ordered actions and sub-projects. You can review all of your actions, projects and other information quickly and easily to see what you need to do or to choose what you want to do at a particular time.
The “Stuff” Collection Day – Getting Things Done Chapter 5
Well, today was the collection day. For those of you have have not read or are not familiar with the Getting Things Done methodology from David Allen, the collection day is where you collect all of your "stuff" into your inbox. This is a different task for everybody but I would like to explain how this was for me.
I now work from home in my home office. This is a 10ft x 10ft room with a desk, cupboard and bookcase done out in a very Ikea fashion. About six months of "stuff" has collected in the various drawers and shelves in my study, so today was the day to collect all of this into my inbox.
Getting Started – Getting Things Done Chapter 4
Now that the book is read, there is no time like the present to start. I have allocated a day to collection, and also as long as it takes to processing. This is one of the benefits of working for yourself. You control your own time.
Chapter 4 of the Getting Things Done book is concerned with setting up the time, space, and tools to make a start with the whole GTD methodology. This is something which I have been waiting with excitement to start, but something that has to be planned.
Lets look at each of the three items, starting with time.
Free Mindjet Webinar – MindManager and GTD
There is an upcoming seminar over at the Mindjet Blog that is now open for registration. The Webinar is on Wednesday 28th March at 1000 PDT.
I have registered for quite a few of these and due to me being in the UK I normally miss the live webinar due to the time differences but by registering you get emailed the link a fter the event to listen to the recorded webinar.
The details of the webinar are as follows:
11th March – Finished the Getting Things Done Book
Well, after a couple of months of fragmented reading, I have just finished reading the Getting Things Done book by David Allen. This was the whole purpose of this blog so I gave it a good push towards then end in order to get it done before my 34th birthday! (which is tomorrow).
Fantastic book, cannot wait to get started. Reading he book has opened my eyes to the massive amount of open loops that I have in my life right now. These vary from business to family, and personal items.
I have really read the book well, and made a lot of notes that I am going to go back over and write about in this blog.
Cool Little App – TextExpander (Mac)
I recently discovered a great application that is saving me a ton of time. This is called TextExpander, from SmileOnMyMac.
I discovered this application after watching MacBreak Episode 63, which has Merlin Mann covering TextExpander.
Merlin has also posted a new blog item about using TextExpander to help with Amazon associate information in Blogs.
Review of Tracks GTD Application
I wrote about Tracks in an earlier post on my blog. Tracks is a Ruby on Rails GTD application that does take some getting working. I have not yet looked at any GTD applications as I want to finish the book and start on my GTD process before I jump in at the deep end playing with the eye candy applications.
Anyway, super review of the application over at the Cranking Widgets website that sure is worth a read before you spend the time installing Ruby and Rails to get Tracks working.
Nozbe for Getting Things Done
A few people have reviewed the new online application, Nozbe, for getting things done. Of of these reviews that is worth reading is the review from the Getting Things Done Blog. The official Nozbe blog is also worth a read.
I have found these three Tutorials on how to use Nozbe via YouTube. Be sure to check them out.
Follow the link to view the other two videos
