Getting Things Done?

machinder asks: "In reading Cory Doctorow's notes for the Life Hacks presentation at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, I saw reference to David Allen's book Getting Things Done. Casting about for it a bit, I see a lot of developers have touted the thing in their blogs. I'm sold, and am starting to implement this system, but I'm wondering if any other Slashdot readers have used the system, and if they have any advice?"

Re:"thing", "the system"?

[CAR912]

I had no idea what they were talking about either, but from what I skimmed over (the amazon.com link above), it appears to be a system where you write down everything you need to remember, and keep that list somewhere. Then you go through the list and do everything you can whenever you have the time. Please elaborate or correct me if I'm wrong.

Re:"thing", "the system"?

[Kris_J]

Sounds like the definition of being organised. I wonder if Amazon has patented it yet.

first you stop reading slashdot...

[HughsOnFirst]

People who are interested in getting things done seem to be drawn from a different group that the people who post to slashdot.

Re:Another fad

[cei]

The next "big thing?" Extreme Getting Things Done!!! You'll get all your things done faster if two people are doing them at the same time!

Elvis

[jspoon]

The King prefers TCB. Takin' Care of Business. Seems way catchier than GTD.

Re:Another fad

[MrHanky]

I can't wait to know what the next "big thing" in self improvement will be called. How bout "common sense"?

That's just so 18th century. We dropped common sense when Hegel was accepted at Tübingen, mate!

Re:Another fad

[Associate]

Could be worse. Someone could 'Move your cheese'.

Re:first you stop reading slashdot...

[Anonymous Coward]

i got alot of things done today, i read the daily comics, read slashdot a few times, read some newsgroups, read slashdot, read my email, read slashdot, skimmed my spam, flagged a spam as a false positive, read slashdot. and next i plan on posting to slashdot. (which will be done after i hit submit.)

you too can be productive, you just need to call reading slashdot a productive thing.

Re:Getting Things Done

[0racle]

So this guy wrote a book about the todo list and he's some sort of visionary? Hell I write down what I have to do all the time, mainly because I usually forget, but if I had known I could make money off of a book about it, I would have added that too. I could use the money and I don't care if it comes from a bunch of saps.