{"id":35,"date":"2009-06-19T11:43:05","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T17:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/?p=35"},"modified":"2009-06-19T11:43:05","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T17:43:05","slug":"gtd-overview-of-my-implementation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/2009\/06\/gtd-overview-of-my-implementation\/","title":{"rendered":"GTD: Overview of my implementation"},"content":{"rendered":"

GTD, or Getting Things Done, is a personal productivity system by David Allen<\/a>.\u00a0 One of its strengths is the way the concepts behind it are implementation agnostic.\u00a0 That means the system can be done using index cards, a notebook, within Outlook, on a Palm or other PDA, using dedicated software, or many other ways.\u00a0 That flexibility is one of the things that many people starting out with GTD find as a hindrance, not knowing just how to set their system up.<\/p>\n

I’m planning a series of posts about my GTD implementation, as a model for other people to consider.\u00a0 I started using GTD in December 2006, and after about 6 months of thrashing around trying things, settled pretty much on what I’m using now, which has mostly been unchanged since.<\/p>\n

My GTD system is electronic, based on a plain vanilla Palm OS PDA, which I synchronize with the Palm Desktop at home, and Outlook at work.\u00a0 I keep a single calendar for work and personal landscape, and I use the Task\/ToDo list for my Project list and Next Action contexts.\u00a0 The 15 categories provided by the Palm are plenty of contexts for me, with a little creative hacking of Outlook that I’ll detail in a later post.<\/p>\n

I use a physical 43 folder tickler file implementation at home and at work.<\/p>\n

Palm Memos \/ Outlook Notes are very useful for reference material of all kinds.\u00a0 I reserve one category for Project Support information, and make sure I name the memos that relate to a project the same way, so they’ll sort together.\u00a0 I reserve one category for general reference material, and one for “Higher Level” notes.\u00a0 I name those so that all the notes for a level will sort together, e.g. 20kft-Finances for my “keep the bills paid” Area of Focus.<\/p>\n

That’s the high level overview, more to come in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GTD, or Getting Things Done, is a personal productivity system by David Allen.\u00a0 One of its strengths is the way the concepts behind it are implementation agnostic.\u00a0 That means the system can be done using index cards, a notebook, within Outlook, on a Palm or other PDA, using dedicated software, or many other ways.\u00a0 That […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}