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[bryant]

Getting Things Done. Anyone tried it? Does it work for you? Tips and/or tricks? Do I have to drink the koolaid?

(Regardless of the answers to these questions, my next PC will use GTD as an organizing scheme. Possibly this promise excludes Jess's Exalted game, but I'm not sure.)

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[robotnik.livejournal.com]

I totally drank the koolaid, bought the purple jumpsuit and the Nikes, had the third eye drilled in my head ...so take what I say with that in mind.

It works for me - not as a way to increase my productivity (that really hasn't changed), but a way to reduce my stress (that has). If you just dabble in GTD as a new kind of to do list, you will think 'oh, this is fine, nothing special, but some bits of good advice' - and that's perfectly OK. But the magic only really happens when you totally trust your system. Hence, koolaid. A huge weight lifts from my shoulders when I know everything's accounted for in my GTD system. It's very zen. Generally I stay in the zone for a blissful week or two, then I get sloppy with capturing and weekly reviews, and sure enough my subconscious figures it out and the stress comes back. So it's an ongoing process.

And of course there's the Golden Age GTD: http://www.robmacdougall.org/archives/2004/11/ogtd_original_g.php