The in list is where you capture ideas and tasks as they occur to you.
In addition to the lists you will need a calendar which lets you write down date and time sensitive tasks and events. These lists will be reviewed regularly and form the backbone of the GTD system.
You will have to make the following lists: Even computers can maintain lists these days! It works by simply maintaining lists, which every kid with paper and a pencil can do. This reduces stress and frees up precious brain time to more productive thinking-maybe it even saves real time so that you have more time for ballet lessons, painting classes, and roller-blading.Īwesome! So how does it actually work? It works by using special yoga techniques and daily mental exercises. When your system and your trust in your system is in place, your subconsciousness will stop keeping track of all the things you need to do and stop constantly reminding you. What GTD gives you-when understood and implemented properly-is a foolproof system for keeping track of what you need to do, should do, or should consider to do. Is it covered with to-do lists and "DO NOT ERASE"? Is there space for drawing and combining ideas?Ī great part of the "magic" is to convert both tasks and whims into physical and visible actions as you soon will see. For example knowing you need to get your watch repaired, but instead of reminding you when you actually bike past the watch store, it implants an incessant feeling of "I need to remember … something" in your brain. One of the basic assumptions of GTD is that you are dumb-or, rather, that your subconsciousness is quite dumb when it comes to thinking about things you should do. Sound like all other run-of-the-mill to-do list systems, you say? Well in many ways it is, but there is more to it, and it's really simple. (It should have been called "Getting things done in a much better way than just letting things happen, which often turns out not to be very cool at all".) Its aim is to make you have 100% trust in a system for collecting tasks, ideas, and projects-both vague things like "invent greatest thing ever" and concrete things like "call Ada 25 August to discuss conference schedule". Its aim is a bit higher than just "getting things done", though. GTD-or "Getting things done"-is a framework for organizing and tracking your tasks and projects.
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