Getting Things Done (GTD) - Cult or Awesome?

we have the same problem, and need to bang some heads together at some point

The other senior editor at the same place would litter his office with reams of random notes and papers and have me pick them up one by one and READ THEM TO HIM, so he could tell me which shelf pile to put them in. He seriously just wanted to sit at his desk and have me do that for him. Editorial asst life is hell's nearest half acre.

jesus god

'also, lick my boots'

do these people discover one day that this is 'a way to work' ('it's so much easier!') or do they just have all these fantasies stored up about how they can dominate their subordinates once they have some

Don't go into publishing, kids.

damn. i am currently looking for an entry-level position in publishing because i am afraid of going into academia. i hate being a (semi)recent college graduate.

but in terms of this thread, i am reading all about GTD and the moleskine hack. i am a sucker for this stuff because i am really inefficient and forgetful and i always believe that if i just found the right system these things would no longer be true.

I so rarely use paper.

oh man, i never saw this thread before, first 50 posts or so are amazing

he's been beloved for so long that sometimes i forget what a good old fashioned HOOS hazing looked like

the preferred nomenclature is HOOSAZING

ftr i regularly punch myself in the face for including ~this moleskine hack~ in the OP

https://photos-6.dropbox.com/t/0/AABaQjT3Iu4DSHL9yAJbCGbLnTujmn2D76NAvncd3FVP2g/12/30623206/jpeg/32x32/3/_/1/2/dominateyrcleaning.JPG/w6g9vCBTgJ2VRQ3mcB1Ahk-UditRsFdfyQP9bClBNxk?size=1600x1200

i blame these people

i've got this on right now: http://www.43folders.com/2006/11/28/productive-talk-comp

Hoos & others - are you still doing this? any advice on how to get started?

read the book (srs.)

i think i've done it twice

what caek said i mean

the next action idea is useful

yeah - i'm reading the book now and starting to apply some of it. the basics seem really solid. what I was hoping for more was any advice on adjusting to it/sticking with it, how strictly you guys think it's necessary to stick to the book version. Thanks.

also thinking of projects as a collection of tasks or whatever

idk but i definitely do not DO gtd

no weekly reviews

i go in and out--i'm much more successful at applying GTD specifically in a work context, weekly reviews included--i really struggle to apply it throughout life. i'm on a downswing right now, but i'm very much aware of the degree to which my work is suffering as a result.

this is kinda posts very much in character but there's a podcast i listen to pretty much every week that is basically about how to do this ~productivity~ stuff on a consistently applied basis, and just the act of listening to it and being reminded and inspired by it is really useful. they did an episode a little while ago specifically on 'troubleshooting,' making sure you stick with it, and it's one of my favorite episodes of the show: http://5by5.tv/b2w/99

preemptive hi 5 markers

yeah - i'm very much on a loose summer swing right now, so I want to tighten things up this and next month and go into the fall feeling really solid and for lack of a better word - inspired.

between this and buddhism thread, which I'm also reading, I think markers and I are on parallel paths right now.

thanks - podcast looks great

haha i just checked it again and i recommend skipping to minute 26 to get past a long & jokey intro that won't make a lotta sense if it's your first episode

thank you for this time-saving productivity tip

every episode starts w/ that stuff i think

it's the way of the future

way of the FUture

if i've learned nothing else from marc maron, it is skip at least the first 15 mins of jokey intros that don't make sense

bulk bag

ive really got to get my shit together and hack together a hack to hack my hack

if i've learned nothing else from marc maron, it is skip at least the first 15 mins of jokey intros that don't make sense

There must be some sort of editing drinking game that takes place whenever there's a minimum tl;dr criteria.

bulk bag

― markers, Tuesday, July 16, 2013 8:29 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its your thread

how strictly you guys think it's necessary to stick to the book version.

I would say not very? I got into GTD maybe 6 or 7 years ago, did it mostly by the book for about a year, but that got to be too much -- now I don't think an outsider would think of me as doing GTD at all, but I feel like the residue of its basic ideas stuck with me and are very useful -- especially things like "you are not going to do all five of these things you think you should do, so your choice is not whether to do all five or to bail on some, the choice is whether you're going to decide now which ones you care least about or whether you're just going to let circumstance decide for you which ones you don't do"

a comparison of my calendar when i was really on my game, and now, when i'm not

http://hcd-1.imgbox.com/adm1frLs.jpg?st=7CPrUYpJ-zWbTmbpfYg99Q&e=1374101244

wait did you just stop showing up for your monday meeting or something?

what happens during all the white space?

HOOS ffs that's as koan as fucking koans get

am i gonna have to remind you you're Buddhist on every g-d thread

it's not what happens in the white space it's what happens between the white space

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H67uEgRZs2Y

... which on wednesday looks like a 3pm conference with nerf herder

also maybe you don't care but there are ppl's irl names on those screenshots

what happens during all the white space?

― markers, Wednesday, July 17, 2013 10:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i deal with the flaming bags of dog shit on my desk based on which one is about to light my whole career on fire first

which is probably not the best way to handle things.

wait did you just stop showing up for your monday meeting or something?

― markers, Wednesday, July 17, 2013 10:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well there's some collusion in the breakdown here--regular meetings w/my biz unit & mgr have basically stopped despite my requests to get them going again. twice weekly check ins to recalibrate priorities had been really helpful.