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| Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
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Author: David Allen
Publisher: Viking/Allen Lane
Release Date: January 2001
ISBN-10: 0670889067
ISBN-13: 9780670889068
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Great Book
| Customer Rating: | | GTD is a great book. I've read it cover to cover. Now, I'm re-reading it slower and implementing many of David Allen's tips. I highly recommend the book for anyone struggling to keep up with their busy lives. This book will pay off for you. Buy it, read it, do it. |
My two-cents
| Customer Rating:  | | This is a very poorly written, poorly edited, dare I say disorganized book that contains some very good ideas. It will make your head hurt to read. However, some of the information is very useful. |
Brilliant action management book
| Customer Rating: | David Allen did something very different with Getting Things Done. One the surface, it is just like any other productivity system. You have things to do (Next Actions) and you need to do them. David's system gives you mental hints on when/where you should be doing them, and which thing you should be doing next.
It's less about what is the highest priority item, it is more about what is the highest priority item at this exact moment, with the tools you have at hand, and in the mood you are in.
I enjoyed the paperback version so much that I also bought a eBook copy to keep on my phone, for review at all times.
I'm looking forward to his next book coming out this winter.
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Very Helpful
| Customer Rating: | | I have had my department expanded and really needed to "get organized". This book was a great help in getting started. It has some simple ways to get through the daily "stuff" we all deal with. My daily routine has become more organized and I have a clearer idea of my plan of action. |
will help you radically reduce the clutter and 'must do' projects in your life
| Customer Rating: | Why Bother?: Maybe you will find it as useful as I have and throw out your todo lists, day planners and scraps of paper on your nightstand. This simply-titled book started something of a revolution in the tame world of personal organization. In the words of an article in Wired, Allen inspired a "new cult for the information age".
Core ideas: The inspiration for this book was a realization by Allen that until the `information age' most people worked at jobs where achieved tangible outcomes such as building a house, cooking a meal or healing a patient. Today, the typical information worker rarely gets that feeling of accomplishment. Even people working in traditional occupations suffer from this malise: a vague and constant feeling that there is something you need to get done though you are not sure where to start, nor if you are making progress once you do.
Allen devised a simple system that allows people to get all of that stuff out of their head. He discourages priority based todo list. A lot of the stuff we worry about is the little stuff, such as the birthday present to buy for a relative or a library book to return. The first step is to throw all of that "stuff", no matter how minute or mundane, into a "bucket". These are then filed into folders with tangible, well-defined outcomes, thrown away or saved for reference. There is a lot more to his system and Wikipedia does a fairly good job of explaining it. Or if you prefer a hands-on introduction to his system over reading about it, install ThinkingRock.
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