Comments on: GTD’s Dirty Secrets

By: VCezar

VCezar — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:24:16 +0000

This is probabily the best, most down-to-Earth, short article ever writen about the subject of DOING THINGS in oppose to organizing them. Thanks.

By: pigpogm

pigpogm — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 02:18:15 +0000

I see what you mean, but it's probably down to a matter of interpreting the words. In your case, I'd say you really wanted to get rid of the bikes - GTD didn't make you want to do it, but it made it manageable. That's one of the things GTD does best - it helps and facilitates you in doing the things you actually do want to do, but find too big or difficult.

By: pigpogm

pigpogm — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 05:33:05 +0000

It's that Yoda philosophy.

Sorry, I mean: "Ah, that Yoda philosophy it is, hmmm?"

By: pigpogm

pigpogm — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 03:32:07 +0000

I did try LifeBalance, back when I was using Palms, and it's a bit of an odd thing. Once you get all the sliders tweaked to the right places, it's kind of magical - it really does seem to just know what you should be doing, and its handling of GTD-style contexts is excellent.

I've not tried it, but MyLifeOrganized looks to be a similar sort of thing for Windows and Windows Mobile. There's a freeware edition, but I think one of the limitations is that you can't set up contexts.

By: pigpogm

pigpogm — Sat, 06 May 2006 09:29:24 +0000

Thanks, Netstormer. I’m afraid I’m better at Putting Things In Folders and Orgainzing Them Every Week than at actually Getting Things Done – it’s more fun.

And killing a fly with a cannon sounds kind of fun too, come to think of it. Probably depends whose house the fly is in, though.

I’m experimenting with a personal wiki at the moment, but even there I’ve got carried away. I started with a TiddlyWiki variant, but then decided it wouldn’t scale enough, and I’ve ended up installing Apache, MySQL and PHP, then setting up MediaWiki. Heh. Sometimes I spend all day shaving Yaks.

But – there’s some really smooth yaks around here

By: pigpogm

pigpogm — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 03:48:28 +0000

…and I’m a tweakaholic.

I just love playing with notebooks, and pens, and pencils, and PDAs, and PIMs, and…

Maybe I have a little problem

By: pigpogm

pigpogm — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 05:02:13 +0000

That certainly looks like an interesting book, and very well received in the reviews at Amazon - unfortunately, it's not listed at all over here in the UK.

I think a lot of people have tried mashing up GTD with 7 Habits, and had limited success, but I've not heard about Aligned Thinking before - thanks, Don.

By: Don

Don — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

This is so true. I am trying to mash-up GTD and another book I just recently read called “Aligned Thinking” Basically the book helps you see that what you are doing is aligned with your goals and there is a reason why you are doing something. The book is an easy read and quite helful but I am still trying to use techniques of Aligned Thinking and GTD to come up with a good system. That way I will want to do all of the things listed since they are in alignment with my goals set up using Aligned Thinking.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Found this post through a Technorati link to your mention of my Getting Nothing Done post at Moleskinner, and I really like your take on this. Lately I'm absolutely fed up with the whole boatload of planning systems. Last week, my wife and I were walking through Office Depot and we started talking about all the elaborate organization schemes we've floundered through over the years. And there's no question: We've spent more time planning and organizing and prioritizing all the things we've had to do than we've spent actually doing them. The first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem.

By: Netstormer

Netstormer — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Excellent article

Just finished setting up a GTD system today (only 3/4 through the book), felt something was missing. I naively thought my 3×5-card GTD system would become animated and start dancing around like that Disney cartoon, sprinkling productivity into my procrastinating life. Until I read your blog and realized I now have more work to do, it’s just more organized.

This was actually the reason I stopped using a Palm many years ago, I spent so much time tweaking and organizing my ToDo’s/Memos, I actually got less work done, and found that a pad & calendar with tasks and invented-icons was simply faster and easier. I guess it’s like the saying `Don’t kill a fly with a cannon’.

Just my $0.02. Once again, great article, it’s a reminder that GTD really is about Getting Things Done, not Putting Things In Folders and Organizing Them Every Week