Tag: GTD

How Todoist Can Support Your Work and Life
School, work, and life are complex. You need a way of managing your commitments. If you’re looking for this, Todoist might be the tool for you.
19 July 2021
Daily Gleanings (11 June 2019)
Michael Thomas discusses the importance of sleep for knowledge work through the lens of a couple key anecdotal narratives. Todoist has published a helpful introduction to “GTD practices and what [they] think is the most intuitive way to implement the[se practices] in Todoist.” The essay comments, in part, that “the key to GTD isn’t the…
11 June 2019
Finding Control and Space at TEDx
In 2014, David Allen discussed the “getting in control and creating space” in a TEDx talk in Amsterdam. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOSFxKaqOm4] For additional discussion, see Allen’s Getting Things Done and related posts here.
13 October 2017
Stress-free Productivity at TEDx
In 2012, David Allen discussed the “art of stress-free productivity” in a TEDx talk at Claremont Colleges. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHxhjDPKfbY] For additional discussion, see Allen’s Getting Things Done and related posts here.
2 October 2017
Scheduling focus
The folks at Freedom have a helpful tutorial about “how to be more productive in the afternoon.” The same principles, though, will apply also to the mornings or whenever one’s preferred time is for focused work. For additional discussion of Freedom, the significance of focus, and the importance of guarding it, see Focus—there’s an…
28 August 2017
Ode to to-do lists
Kristina Malsberger discusses managing oneself and one’s commitments amid what can be a hectic whirlwind of incoming information and requests. According to Malsberger, there’s a simple, centuries-old solution: the daily to-do list. Sure, checklists have their detractors—folks that claim they constrain creativity or induce undue guilt—but when done well, a to-do list functions like a…
24 August 2017