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Author: duncanriley Added: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:19:30 -0800 Duration: 169Duncan reviews GTD methods he s put in place to better deal with email and task management.

Author: duncanriley Added: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:19:30 -0800 Duration: 169Duncan reviews GTD methods he s put in place to better deal with email and task management.

Duncan reviews GTD methods he's put in place to better deal with email and task management.

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This screencast shows several ways I use the FeedDemon newsreader to save me as much as an hour every day by automatically sorting information and eliminating the need to wait for pages to load.You can also read about my time saving tips on my blog. Download FeedDemon for free and start saving time. You can read a more complete review of FeedDemon here.

Tasra takes a break from the Memory Trends Expo recaps to bring you a special projectcreating a "Getting Things Done" journal.

Google Tech Talk: Inbox Zero The video for the Inbox Zero talk I presented on Monday at Google is up and available for free (wow, that was fast!). [via: Dion] Here s the slides, in case you want a copy. It d be swell if you wanted to share the video of the talk via your own site. Here s the copy-and-paste embed code: embed style="width:400px; height:326px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=973149761529535925 /embed elsewhere, email, getting things done, inbox zero, presentations Featured 43f Job: Ruby/Rails Developers at ThoughtWorks Post your job to the 43f Job Board today, and get 43% off with checkout coupon 43OFFTHRUJUL. Offer ends 7/31.

David Allen: The master of getting thing done - July 1, 2007 Terrific article on David Allen and his company. Although the perspective is heavy on the business and money (well: after all, it is Business 2.0), there s lots of interesting history and insight in here as well. David Allen sits in his small office in a cottage behind his house in Ojai, Calif., talking business with a visitor. Suddenly he stops. That reminds me, he says. He scribbles the words bird feed on a piece of blank notebook paper and tosses it into his inbox. It s an ordinary moment in an ordinary day. But for Allen and his legion of followers, it holds the key to salvation. He has emptied his mind of a nagging task, placed it into a trusted system for processing, and casually returned to his conversation. I hung with David when we were doing our podcast together (download the mp3), and I ll tell you what: that is exactly how the man works, and it s inspiring to watch. Via: kedrhodes bookmarks on del.icio.us business2.0, david allen, getting things done, links 43 Folders Jobs NEW! Find your next gig or fill an open position.

Michael Buffington is a pal of mine who s a talented developer and all-around swell fellow. I got to work with him a bit on the Stikkit project and, in some of our offline talks on productivity stuff, I was intrigued to learn about some of his ninja geek skillz. I asked Michael to write up a series on some of his favorite tricks to get his stuff done, and he kindly obliged. Here s part one. Merlin How I use iGTD by Michael Buffington This is the first part in a multipart series about using iGTD with Quicksilver and how it s changed my life, allowed me to grow hair where I never thought it possible, and more importantly, spend more quality time with my children (who are, as you might know, super humans with indescribable special abilities). I m a recent and somewhat enthusiastic convert to GTD. I have had the good fortune of starting to manage my digital life with GTD the same day Merlin first mentioned a great application for OS X called iGTD. I have to admit though that I m not a very hard core GTD follower yet. The most important parts of GTD for me are getting my tasks out of my head the moment they pop into existence, and putting them into some sort of system I can trust. iGTD allows me to do exactly that in a very intuitive way, but if I m having a good day I only ever bring iGTD into focus when I m not sure what s next on my list. “I ve emphasized this before already, but for me the most important part of GTD is writing tasks that you can follow as if you re a robot ” For task capturing, I use Quicksilver, and I have to say it s a slice of heaven. Without a doubt my life has improved quite measurably both because of GTD, and the iGTD plugin for Quicksilver. So at the most basic level, here s how I use iGTD to reinforce what I think is the most important behavior for leading a GTD lifestyle: I invoke Quicksilver. I hit the period ( . ) key to switch to text entry mode. Some people have different settings, so the the important part here is invoking text entry. I begin typing out my task with some simple markup that iGTD understands. For this blog entry, I once wrote: @blog write a blog entry about how I use iGTD to capture tasks [43f] I then hit tab and type iGTD so I can send the text I entered to iGTD. I hit enter, and I know that my task has been captured. I even set iGTD so that it doesn t pop up once I ve captured a task, I simply trust that it s there. Here s a quick screencast of the process in action - it s worth noting that the screencast is all of a few seconds long, and the actual task capturing part is incredibly quick. I ve emphasized this before already, but for me the most important part of GTD is writing tasks that you can follow as if you re a robot (avoiding writing ambiguous sounding tasks in favor of writing very actionable tasks) and getting those tasks capture the moment you think of them. So I ll be writing code, thinking about how to do something like simulate multiple inheritance in Ruby when unannounced the thought I should call the local game place to see if my reality might someday be shared with a Nintendo Wii of my very own takes center stage. If I weren t adhering to GTD practices, I d ignore that thought and move on, but it d nag me. It d keep nagging me, and my focus would suffer. With Quicksilver and iGTD I get the task out of head and into a place I trust, and because it took mere seconds to record I m right back in flow, realizing that if I m wanting to do multiple inheritance in Ruby I ve probably designed something incorrectly in the first place. I become more efficient at what I do, and have less free radical thoughts fighting for attention in my head, which makes me a far more patient, confident and relaxed person. That in turn makes play time with the kids sublime. In the next entry in this series, I ll write about a particularly horrifying experience I had with iGTD, and what I did to solve the problem. About the Author Michael Buffington - A serial entrepreneur and creative technological consultant, Buffington most recently served as the Community Advocate for Values of N, makers of Stikkit and iwantsandy.com. He s now secretly building games for the masses. apple macs os x, features, getting things done, igtd, michael buffington, os x, productivity, quicksilver, tips

The Tech Guy Labs - Leo Laporte, The Tech Guy [2007-03-31] On last Saturday s Tech Guy radio show, Leo Laporte and I talked about some of the basics of David Allen s Getting Things Done system. For most regular visitors to 43 Folders, this is going to be very introductory stuff, but I think it may be useful to folks who are getting started or are just curious about what GTD even means. My segment appears from about 00:59:30 to about 1:08:45. Here s a link to an MP3 of the show, plus a few of the items that were mentioned in the segment: Tech Guy Labs: 64k MP3 of the 3/31 show 43 Folders: Getting Started with Getting Things Done 43 Folders: Description of 43 Folders (tickler file) 43 Folders: Introducing The Hipster PDA 43 Folders: 8-Part audio interview with GTD s David Allen 43 Folders: Best of GTD posts Amazon.com: Getting Things Done, which is David Allen s book that started it all david allen, elsewhere, getting things done, leo laporte, productivity, recaps, tech guy, time management 43F RSS sponsored by: Hold your next meeting online using WebEx, the world’s leading provider of online meetings. Call 1-888-Go-WebEx now to try it free! Or go to www.webex.com.

007: Interview: Jonathan Coulton, Part 2 | The Merlin Show I first heard about The War of Art from David Allen during our GTD podcast series last year. I finally picked up a copy a couple months back and read it in an evening. Like a lot of self-help books, it s longer than it needs to be (and it s not actually very long to begin with), but it does make some great points about what its author calls resistance. Resistance can be thought of as anything that pulls us away from doing the work we know is most important to us. It takes many forms (including procrastination, fear, distraction, and negative self-talk), but the effect is often similar: we find or permit all kinds of barriers to keep us from becoming the person we want to be, or from completing the thing we really want to make. Whether that s being a published author, a composer, a playwright, or a painter, our impulse to create constantly battles an impulse to do something else, or to do nothing to not upset our weirdly comfy stasis. This book came up twice in my recent interview with Jonathan Coulton; both in part one and today s recently released part two. Jonathan strikes me as someone who has, so far, succeeded at talking down the resistance he d faced, and now he s doing what he s great at, and, in his words, he s working hard to become the kind of true person that he wants to be for his daughter. I think it s really important to underscore that beating resistance does not have to mean quitting your job or doing something equally dramatic; it just means that you identify and then choose to beat the crap out of whatever perceived obstacle keeps you from doing your work. You go Pro as Pressfield (not Pressman ) says, making it all about the work, and not allowing yourself to trail off when it gets hard or when you have to fight in order to get your stuff done. Pretty inspiring stuff, as far as I m concerned. I really liked this second part of the interview with JoCo; particularly when Jonathan confessed that his lack of an email system has him screwed. 007: Interview: Jonathan Coulton, Part 2 | The Merlin Show creativity, elsewhere, email, getting things done, jonathan coulton, mind and spirit, podcasts, the merlin show, video podcasts, war of art, world of work Share This Spanking new: The Merlin Show arrives at thirty theoretically productive frames per second. Subscribe for free to the iPod or hi-resolution version.

What's worse than letting the workaday world get in the way of making time for sex? Letting the ways we manage our sex lives take more of our time than time spent having sex! This week's Future of Sex (appropriately, this week's late Future of Sex) offers up a few simple suggestions for how to best get sex done, putting some of those tricks of the self-organization-scheme fetishists out there to a hotter purpose.

In this episode, Merlin asks David one of the most popular questions about GTD; if he could write the book all over again today, what would he do differently? David addresses how people’s understanding of GTD evolves on repeated exposures, as well hinting at future plans for making GTD easier for people to start and maintain. He makes some great points on learning to pay attention to your “higher altitudes,” and wraps up by underscoring the importance of not having to rethink every task throughout the day. (13:11) More at: http://www.davidco.com/ & http://www.43folders.com/

The Tablet PC Show #048 (MP3 - 17.9MB - 52 min) DOWNLOAD THE PODCAST HERE Welcome to episode 48 of the Tablet PC Show! It s a beautiful sunny day in Florida as I record this. News Updates: What exactly is the Glade OS that Intel plans to put on their UMPCs? Is it an operating system or a website? Or something in between Loren Heiny has a web search page that allows you to ink your search terms. Why can t more sites support inking? Is TEO 3.0 the last version of this excellent Outlook plug-in? Let s hope not! Is Yahoo! getting into the UMPC hardware business? (It occured to me that those last three links all came from GottaBeMobile.com. I promise I m not trying to podcast their entire site! But they ve consistently got great content and cover the same stories that I do ) Windows Vista is almost here. Time to catch up on some tips and tricks. Intel has released Vista software and drivers for the 945 Express chipset. Is the indexing in Vista s desktop search feature draining batteries? OQO talks about the next version of their extra-small tablet. DualCor talks to Judie Hughes of GearDiary.com about the next version of their device, but where is their first version? Save the TC1 00 tablets! Sign a petition to be sent to HP to get them to resurrect the terrific line of Tablet PCs. Speaking of TC1 00 tablets, I share some news regarding my old TC1000 tablet. I also share the news that I m now blogging over at Ultranauts.com. Go check it out! I m also going to be at the TabletKiosk Demo Days in Orlando on November 9th. Anyone else going? I d love to meet up. I talk a bit (longer than I thought I would) about the advantages of having a hosted Exchange account for email. I also wrote about it at Ultranauts here and here. Finally, I play some listener voicemails about Getting Things Done (GTD) and MindManager, topics we ve covered on past shows. If you have comments or questions or feedback, or a problem or issue with your Tablet PC for which you d like help, please feel free to leave a comment here, email us, or leave us a voicemail right here! Music:Intro: Wallawalla by Drop Trio Outro: Second First by Drop Trio (Music available at magnatune.com.)

In this episode, David and Merlin talk about the role of GTD in teams and how to lead by example. More at: http://www.davidco.com/ and http://www.43folders.com/

In this episode, David and Merlin talk about a very popular topic on 43 Folders—procrastination. They discuss where procrastination comes from and how GTD can help get you back to cranking widgets. More at: http://www.davidco.com/ http://www.43folders.com/

David Allen, author of the top selling Getting Things Done, (and Genius Network participant) spent 90 minutes explaining the GTD process to the 580 person bootcamp audience. In Episode #7 of the Joe Polish Podcast, you get the first 20 minutes of the presentation. You'd be surprised how much was done in that short time. Technorati Tags: getting things done, david allen, gtd, joe polish, piranha marketing

Merlin Mann has a site called 43 Folders. It’s about personal productivity. We weren’t sure what that meant, exactly – so we asked.